MD MPH FACC FSCAI. Interventional Cardiologist. Inova Fairfax, Sentara, MWH. alum @Johnshopkins @columbiamed etc. Global health enthusiast. tweets= my opinion.
1/16 🧵 ORBITA-CTO: The first randomized, placebo-controlled trial of CTO PCI.
📰 Published in JACC, presented at #ACC26.
��� Finally, sham-controlled evidence for what we do in the cath lab every day.
One of the best designed studies I have ever seen!
A biostatistical deep dive. Let's go. 👇
TCT 2025 LATE BREAKING CLINICAL TRIALS: One LINER SUMMARY 📸 AT A GLANCE ⭐️ What a phenomenal scientific meeting! Congratulations to all the presenters & leaders for their innovation, hard work and knowledge sharing. Thank you @TCTConference@TCTMD@crfheart team for a fantastic meeting! #TCT2025 #FIT 🫀❤️ 😊
We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven. The degree to which those comments can undermine public health, do harm to women who are pregnant, create anxiety for parents who do have children who are autistic – is violence against the truth.
PA Catheter Made Simple
This one image explains it all:
⬜ How waveforms change from RA to PCWP
⬜ Normal pressure values at each step
⬜ How to spot different types of shock
⬜ Easy guide to treating cardiogenic shock
Big winners regardless of the score….
So proud to have our D’Aniello and Schar Endowed chairs recognized and celebrated at DC United game last night.
Thank you for your commitment to excellence!
Illustrative example of a hockey stick mitral valve (rheumatic mitral valve stenosis).
#POCUS#echofirst#FOAMed
🔗 Mutarelli et al. JACC Case Rep. 2024 PMID: 39534628
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Don’t scapegoat doctors. They don’t deserve it.
They sacrificed their entire lives to help people.
While others were partying in college, they were memorizing the Krebs Cycle.
While others were traveling in their 20’s, they were doing gross anatomy, staying up until 2am to study, and pulling all-nighters in residency.
I don’t know a single one who’s gone into it for the money. There are easier ways to make money.
The ones I know want to heal people, and they are prevented from doing so at every turn—the MBA administrator with no medical background telling them how they need to treat people, spending 45 minutes on the phone and getting transferred three times to get a denied claim paid. Being paid less every year because of new insurance payout structures.
Everyone knows you need to sleep, exercise, and eat better. The doctor didn’t make people fat. Would they love to spend 30 minutes on lifestyle? Yes. But instead, they have 10 minutes to make sure someone’s leg doesn’t get amputated from mismanaged T2D, fix a blood pressure problem, hear a patient lecture the doctor about statin pharma conspiracy theories while their total cholesterol is over 400.
It’s remarkable to me that as a group, they are still so composed. And it further emphasizes their desire to heal, because if it were just money, I can’t imagine them not striking.
We all live in so much comfort these days knowing that if anything happens, an ambulance and a doctor will be there to bail us out any time of day or night.
Criticize the system all you want.
But don’t bite the hand that’s holding the scalpel.
@drabdul@SDRoyMD@SCAI@Heart_BMJ This is a very important study adding to our understanding of cannabis which has now become ubiquitous in our communities.
In case you were wondering what size LA mass could be removed with SEATTLE procedure and Inari aspiration cath for combo myxoma with associated clot, here’s an example: