After a long road, we couples-matched and will be moving to NYC! #Match2024 #MedX #MedTwitter

The special one is back

What a weekend at NOLA's #ACC2026 Amazing time presenting some of our work, learning and meeting so many people pushing cardiovascular medicine forward! @MonteHeart @ACCinTouch #Cardiology #Medtwitter #CVMed

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Today is Day 1 of #CTO2026 in NYC! View all the slides presented at this year's conference on the TCTMD website. tctmd.com/CTO2026

Live from Bayamón! 🫀 Tuning in to a live case from the Bayamón Heart & Lung Institute — bringing real-time learning and expert decision-making to #CTO2026. #CardioX #CardioTwitter #CardioResearch #CardioEd @esbrilakis @colletcarlos @DrBillLombardi @mbmcentegart @JWMoses @wjn_md @jgranadacrf @MartyBLeon @triciarawh @TCTConference @TCTMD @jedicath @Babar_Basir @CathWhisperer @SarahFairley7 @MinaFar20 @MichaelMegalyMD @ShariqShamimMD @Shoaib9702 @Tabaza @ladyheart_md

Congratulations to second-year resident, Marianna B. Castellanos, MD, who was first author of this paper re: #children & #SNAP. @i_jsmiles @MontefiorePeds @DrFerdowsi @haroldpollack @SuzettePediMD @ianpaulmd #PedsMatch2025 @SBraganzaMD @Dr_ScottK @psyd publications.aap.org/pediatr…

You're 33. You hit the gym six days a week. You've been training for five years. No symptoms. No chest pain. No dizziness. Your resting heart rate is 52—athlete-level fitness. You don't know that your ventricular septum is 18mm thick. Normal is under 12mm. You have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Your father's brother died suddenly at 28 during a football game. Your family thought it was a freak accident. It wasn't. Standard pre-gym screening doesn't catch this. A physical exam won't detect it. Your blood pressure is normal. Your heart sounds are normal. Even an ECG might miss it—ECGs only identify HCM in 50-70% of cases. The gold standard is cardiac MRI. But ordering an MRI for every gym member isn't feasible or cost-effective. The healthcare system doesn't screen asymptomatic young adults for genetic cardiomyopathies unless family history raises flags. This is the screening gap. The conditions that kill young athletes stay silent until they don't. Up to 30% of HCM cases present with sudden death as the first symptom. ARVC is even harder to detect early—the fibrofatty replacement starts in the right ventricle, which is technically difficult to image with standard echocardiography. So what's the solution? Know your family history. If sudden death runs in your family—particularly in relatives under 50—you need evaluation before intense training. That means ECG, echocardiogram, possibly cardiac MRI. Pay attention to symptoms during exertion. Chest pressure isn't normal. Sustained palpitations after stopping exercise aren't normal. Syncope or near-syncope during lifting isn't normal. These aren't signs of pushing hard—they're warnings your heart is electrically unstable. The screening gap exists because sudden cardiac death is rare enough that universal screening doesn't pass cost-benefit analysis. But if you're in the high-risk group—family history, using anabolic steroids, or experiencing symptoms—you're not a population statistic. You're an individual who needs evaluation.

BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy. #NobelPrize

“Oh my god… I have no words.” Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina Machado finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news with her directly before it was announced to the world. #NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize

@Mariannabcf from @MontefioreNYC and @BIDMCneo presents enrolment data across more than 2500 neonatology RCTs through 2017: median sample size in non-cluster trials only 79 patients. @HaySusanne @BrianKingNeo @DrArzaga @MariaMouraoMD #EAPS2024 @EAPSCongress @ESPR_ESN

🎾🌍 Et la terre s'arrêta La une du journal L'Équipe de ce vendredi 11 octobre 2024 #Nadal

Strong research! @atvbahajournals Go check our lab’s latest collaboration with Dr. Roweth!

Venezuela’s 2024 presidential election did not meet international standards of electoral integrity and cannot be considered democratic. Statement: bit.ly/3YlXCZl Declaración: bit.ly/3YlGOBG

🇻🇪 #TuVotoEsLlave Nada ni nadie nos puede quitar nuestro decidir. Esta fue la primera vez que me puse frente a un lente de cine. Era 1998, tenia 21 años y se acercaban las primeras elecciones presidenciales en las que participaría en mi vida. Unos meses antes del 6 de diciembre de ese año, unos amigos del periódico URBE y la Fundación Dale Al Voto me invitaron a participar como “imagen” en una campaña para incentivar el #Voto juvenil. Estaba en el último año de comunicación social en la @lacatolica y ni me pasaba por la mente que 5 años más tarde me convertiría en actor. Y mucho menos me imaginaría que 25 años después, los más graves problemas que nos aquejaban en 1998, pudiesen sentirse banales en comparación con la tragedia que vivimos hoy. No podría imaginar que, 26 años después de esa campaña para invitar a los jóvenes a votar, la lucha hoy sería para RESCATAR y RESTAURAR nuestra Democracia , secuestrada y desmantelada por las mismas personas e instituciones elegidas para garantizarla y protegerla. Es inaceptable que un comercial institucional de 1998 tenga hoy más vigencia que nunca. Es un dramático recordatorio del imperdonable retroceso que hemos tenido como país en las dos ultimas décadas y media . Es por ello que hoy, si yo pudiese estar en Venezuela, votaría. Votaría para expresar una vez más mi más profundo rechazo al régimen que ha conseguido destruir nuestro país pero no doblegar nuestro espíritu. Hoy domingo #28Jul los venezolanos tenemos la oportunidad de ejercer nuestra voluntad soberana y dejarles saber a quiénes nos oprimen - y al mundo entero - cuál es el país que queremos y merecemos: un país libre, soberano, moderno y sobretodo democrático. Es hora de que reciban TU SEÑAL, DALE AL VOTO! #TuVotoEsLaLlave 🇻🇪

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For everything on and off the pitch #DankeKaiser