Lucky to play a small role in this cool story from Jason Roh Claire Castro Anthony Rosenzweig, MD MGH Cardiovascular Research Center

The placenta has a 9-mo lifespan 🤰

Jason & Claire find that placental aging can ➡️ maternal 🫀 dysfunction, w/ intriguing potential Rx implications

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

This multicenter #JACCINT analysis demonstrated that coronary slow flow is NOT associated with microvascular dysfunction in patients with #INOCA bit.ly/49AeBZO #CMD #cvCAD

Our new Nature Medicine paper describes the results of our search for proteins secreted by the placenta that modulate insulin resistance in pregnancy! nature.com/articles/s4159…

Esther Kim PI on new study from iSCADregistry 🚺🚹 looking at Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD) researching sex differences in cases.🔬 Findings are a testament to the importance of gender-specific research in the development of medical treatments! #SangerHeart

Time for American College of Cardiology to lead in issues related to childbearing and infertility for our trainees & cardiologists
Great discussions led by Nosheen Reza, MD & Agnes Koczo 👏🏽👏🏽
With Sharonne Hayes MD Kamala Tamirisa MD Ben Freed, MD C Noel Bairey Merz we discussed changes needed for our women & men!

Fantastic session starting now in Young Professional Lounge on Parenthood in Cardiology! #ACC2024 including our awesome Malamo Countouris! Come check it out UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute katie berlacher Emily Guhl, MD FACC Anum Saeed

Join Nosheen Reza, MD and I at #ACC24 !
-WIC lounge: Sunday 11:15-12:15
-Discuss infertility, pregnancy complications in faculty/trainees
-Awareness/destigmatize, actionable change!
🌟Panel
-Dr. Sharonne Hayes
-Dr. Noel Bairey-Merz
-Dr. Martha Gulati
-Dr. Ben Freed
-Dr. Kamala Tamirisa

Seeing my patients consistently lose large amounts of weight and wean off insulin is one of the most remarkable changes in nephrology of my career. #GLP1raMiracle

Women make up 50% of the population, yet in 2023, only 5.65% of all research grants were dedicated to the study of female disease. This #WomensHealthResearchDay , join us as we bring women's health to the forefront. See how: bit.ly/3YYc4nR

It’s Maternal Heath Awareness Day! Stay tuned for some MFM related info. First, let’s use SMFM ‘s new preeclampsia resources to discuss this important disease.

Pulmonary htn in pregnancy -> high risk condition! Warrants multidisciplinary care team and close monitoring. Fabulous overview slides w/ key pearls from Estefania Oliveros MD🫀 at our American College of Cardiology #CardioObstetrics webinar Colleen Harrington MD, FACC, FASE Jennifer Haythe MD Doreen DeFaria Yeh, MD

Dr. Rajiv Gulati, et al offer a collection of observations that support an alternate hypothesis in many cases—that #SCAD is a secondary event instigated by SICM (Takotsubo and variants). Learn more here: bit.ly/3O9yYoQ

#JACCAdvances #cvCAD

Review Article by Zoltan Arany, M.D., Ph.D. (The Arany lab): Peripartum Cardiomyopathy nej.md/48pUCx3

#Cardiology

No episode this week but a chance to catch up on one of the 38 episodes from 2023

drjourneytobetter.com

Thank you to all my guests and everyone on the journey with me in 87 countries!

Grateful and reloading with some great guests planned to join the Journey for 2024

#Pubmed Association of activin A and postpartum blood pressure in peripartum cardiomyopathy Agnes Koczo, Dennis MacNamara Pitt Cardiology ISSHP #CardioTwitter #Cardiology #Preeclampsia #Pregnancy pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37852074/

Myocardial fibrosis contributes to #HF & is an unmet clinical need. Emerging immunotherapies may hold promise as targeted approaches for new treatments.

In this #JACCBTS SOTA Review, Dr. Maurits Sikking, et al discuss “Immunomodulation of Myocardial Fibrosis” bit.ly/485tinR

🚨CW: Pregnancy loss

I learned a new word the other day:
in·ef·fa·ble
/inˈefəb(ə)l/
Meaning:
1. too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words.

The thing about a miscarriage is that the experience is…ineffable.

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Very grateful for this #USCardiology Editorial Board, working together to #DemocratizeCVPublishing .

Stay tuned for:
❤️‍🔥New article formats
❤️‍🔥New sections
❤️‍🔥New collaborations & collections