Cardiovascular Disease Fellow @KUCVM || Former Internal Medicine Chief Resident @WrightCenterGME & CVD Research Fellow @MayoClinicCv || First Gen Doc👨⚕️
🧵 1/ First ever AHA/ACC/multi-society guidelines re: diagnosis & management of acute PE released today!
2 year effort with 38 authors from 10 specialties.
Link attached & summary in this thread:
https://t.co/uUUyUvz3pR
2/ ⭐️ Use d-dimer and CTA in pts with high diagnostic suspicion to rule out PE.
⭐️ CTA is optimal diagnostic test.
⭐️ Quantitatively report RV:LV ratio with all PE CTA
⭐️ Specific reccs for TTE performance & reporting also included.
Just out!
Lung Transplantation With Elevated Pulmonary Vascular Resistance: Insights From the United Network for Organ Sharing Database - Annals of Thoracic Surgery Short Reports
https://t.co/6rzkJBCuyC
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Proximal pulmonary artery occlusion treated by balloon pulmonary angioplasty #BPA in a non-surgical patient. Celebrating 150 CTEPH cases in past 12 months @HenryFordHealth @HFHCardioFellow @SCAI@phaware@PERTConsortium
1. PASSED MY ID BOARDS!! You are now looking at a board certified ID physician! This ends a decade long journey in medical training as a Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG). This was a challenging & fulfilling journey, with many people to thank. My journey as an FMG, in a thread 🧵