Excited to announce that we are looking to grow our HF family by adding a full-time HF/HTx/MCS cardiologist here at USC! It will involve a leadership role in growing HF care at our partner hospitals as well as contributing to our AHF/MCS/transplant services. DM me if interested!
Our new case report in @asaiojournal of a young woman with prior NICM and durable LVAD, with subsequent recovery and LVAD explantation, who had a successful pregnancy. @wolfsonaaron
Following the 2018 UNOS policy change, the rates of #HTx for higher acuity patients increased while the risk of rejection and treated rejection decreased over time without impacting the risk of hospitalization for rejection and infection. @ajay_vaidya
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Iโm delighted to join as faculty for this outstanding fellowship program
PITCH has great structured mentorship formal training in @UChicagoPHS- get the necessary empirical skills to take on hard, important questions
Are you a primary care clinician interested in researching chronic disease in underserved populations? Apply to be a 2024-26 CDRP PITCH Fellow! Learn more and apply at chronicdisease.uchicago.edu/โฆ
โฆ@ABIMFoundationโฉ please reply here so we all understand what these MOC fees get us. Paying the >$3,000 to pass the general and interventional cardiology recert exams isnโt enough for you. Please explain why. No answer assumes greed. We will all waitโฆ
#HFinductiontherapy is as important as cancer induction chemotherapy-
HF is as deadly as cancer is and HF GDMT improve outcomes. Initiate quadruple HF therapies as induction therapy and then consider add-on therapies as consolidation therapy in HFrEF. jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jchf.โฆ
Smoking kills- through heart attacks, strokes, emphysema, and cancer. So we encourage patients to quit cigarettes.
Handgun ownership dramatically increases the risk of dying by suicide. So why donโt we encourage patients to quit handguns?
Congratulations to the Dr. Jon Kobashigawa, director of Advanced Heart Disease and the Heart Transplant Program in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, on being selected to receive the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award from the @ISHLT at #ISHLT2023! ๐ ceda.rs/3K9OPTb
HEART MATTERS: Even though 80% of heart disease is preventable, it remains the leading cause of death in the United States, and Black Americans are twice as likely to die from the disease than White Americans. However, fewer than 3% of cardiologists are Black.
Today is marks a historic day for the Heart Transplant & MCS Program here at Keck Medical Center of USC: Today was our 500TH HEART TRANSPLANT!!!!!
On this momentous day, we want to reflect on the 500 lives that have been saved because of our talented team here at Keck Medicine
Expanding donor pool and organ utilization with OCS "heart in a box". Traditional heart ischemic times are ~4h. This heart came from across the country w 10hrs outside body. Fantastic job by @FiedlerAmy, @JasonWSmithMD, @LiviuKlein and HF team. UCSF did 3 OCS and 10txp this mo.
Keck Medicine of USC Heart Transplant Program proudly has 5 bars, or a 98.2%, 1-year heart transplant survival rate! Congratulations to the entire team for providing our patients with this first-class service. It takes a village!
Milrinone at home with beta-blockers and GDMT may be better than dobutamine.
Hypothesis generating data.
Palliative Inotropes in Advanced Heart Failure: Comparing Outcomes Between Milrinone and Dobutamine - Journal of Cardiac Failure onlinejcf.com/article/S1071-โฆ