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Author(s): Kiran K Khush , Sharon A Hunt Added: 3 years ago
The field of heart transplantation has evolved tremendously since Alexis Carrel first explanted a canine heart and anastomosed it to the carotid artery and jugular vein of a recipient dog in 1905.1 In 1960, Norman Shumway and Richard Lower at Stanford described a technique for orthotopic canine heart transplantation and demonstrated adequate physiologic function of the denervated heart.2 Their… View more

Vascular Disease and Surgery
David A Baran
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Personal History Dr David Alan Baran is a Cardiologist from Parsippany, New Jersey. He is married and based in Norfolk, Virginia. Academic History In 1988, Dr Baran received his Bachelor’s (Hon) in Chemistry from Florida Atlantic University, followed by an M.D. from the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine in 1992. He finished his Residency at NY Presbyterian… View more
Mandeep Mehra
Personal History Dr Mandeep R Mehra was born on December 3rd, 1967 in Delhi, India— the historic day Christiaan Barnard carried out the first human heart transplant.7 One of the country’s leading cardiologists in advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation, he is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Medical Director of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) Heart… View more
Author(s): Emily Seif , Leway Chen , Bruce Goldman Added: 3 years ago
Myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of the myocardium. It has a wide spectrum of severity, with symptoms ranging from mild fevers, shortness of breath, and palpitations to severe hemodynamic collapse. Fulminant myocarditis is a rare form of severe myocarditis that presents with sudden-onset acute heart failure, cardiogenic shock, or life-threatening arrhythmias.1 Prognosis and management of… View more

Heart Failure
Cardiac Transplant and Ventricular Assist in Heart Failure
Author(s): Michael T Cain , Michael S Firstenberg , Joseph C Cleveland Jr Added: 2 years ago

Heart Failure
Author(s): Steven R Sigman Added: 3 years ago
Although less common than other forms of cardiomyopathy, cardiac sarcoidosis (CS), both as part of a systemic process and in its isolated form, is an important, and increasingly recognized disorder. This is felt to be due, in part, to advances in cardiac imaging and heightened awareness of the disorder.1,2 CS is associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality, including sudden cardiac death… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics
Author(s): Michael R Rosen Added: 3 years ago
Cardiac arrhythmia diagnosis is as old as the Bible and ancient Chinese literature.1 Treatment has progressed from the natural products used by the ancients, to formalized attempts at pharmacological therapy over the last 300 years (with digitalis and cinchona bark being the lead compounds), to the modern use of devices and ablation. However, with the exception of electronic pacing for… View more

Vascular Disease and Surgery

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Fontan-associated Liver Disease: A Practical Review
Author(s): Aleksandra Cieplucha , Werner Budts , Marc Gewillig , et al Added: 1 year ago

Heterogeneous Populations

CV Disease in Special Populations