
Fred Wu, MD 🫀 吳明杰
@FredWuMD
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I take care of adolescents & adults with congenital heart disease. #MedPeds #ACHD @BostonChildrens @BrighamWomens. Clinics in Boston, Providence, & Lebanon, NH.
Boston, MA
Joined November 2014
Serious question for #medtwitter: If you show up at a code, and the patient is a centaur who had a cardiac arrest, ignoring the joules question, where do you think the defib pads should go? A, assuming the heart is in the human part, or B, assuming the heart is in the horse part?
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This @ISACHD #Heart2Heart series continues with @BCstyling and her #advice for those interested in #ACHD as a #career
#CardioTwitter Stay tuned for the next #Heart2Heart video around the globe 🌎 @ACCinTouch @AFHRA_Cardio @AfricanHeartAs1 @AHAScience @MAGatzoulis @FredWuMD
We will continue this @ISACHD #Heart2Heart series with @BCstyling and her #WhyACHD? #CardioTwitter Stay tuned for the next #Heart2Heart video around the globe 🌎 @ACCinTouch @AFHRA_Cardio @AfricanHeartAs1 @AHAScience @MAGatzoulis @FredWuMD @nmpra @interactiveachd @TorontoACHD
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This month’s @ISACHD Top Picks 1/“Survival Trends of Adults with Congenital Heart Disease After Heart Surgery in Sweden”, published in The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 🚨 Long-term survival is improving for adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD) in
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This month’s @ISACHD #ACHD #Top #Pick comes from the #Pediatric #Cardiology colleagues from #India led by Dr Krishna Kumar #Transcatheter #closure of #perimembranous #VSD in children https://t.co/ArtWXTkvZg ✅121 patients ✅Successful deployment in all but 3 (significant
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Out now 🚨, EKG changes in 🤰 pts with congenital heart disease We evaluated pre-pregnancy, pregnancy and post-partum EKGs in CHD participants of our STORCC registry Special thanks to my 🤰 cardio-OB mentors @AnneValente1 and Kathy Economy 🙏 Amrit Misra @FredWuMD, Tom Tadros
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This @ISACHD #CaseOfTheMonth is a 67-year-old with a history of ascending aortic #aneurysm, mixed aortic valve disease, presenting with a syncopal event. She was found to have a #double-chambered #right #ventricle with no known history of a ventricular septal defect.
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Dr. Campbell is a native Mississippian with a passion for increasing access to care. His skill in the catheterization lab has been an integral part of providing comprehensive care to the ACHD population at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. #CardioTwitter #ACHD
Amy Lemly is the ACHD Nurse Practitioner at @UMMC_Heart. She is a prized team member, whose gentle nature and kindness helps build bonds with this special patient population. Amy seeks to embrace each patient into ACHD clinic like a member of a big family. #ACHD #CardioTwitter
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Que hermosa pareja! Dr. Baraona & his wife @ Una Noche de Milagros para Niños “quinceañera” gala. The annual fundraiser occurs during Hispanic Heritage month for Milagros para Niños (Miracles for Children) to bring life-saving care to Latino kids in Boston & around the world 💫
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#ISACHD #TOPPICK Clinical Course of TGA After Arterial Switch Operation in the Current Era TGA-ASO patients have an excellent survival. However, ⬆️(re-)interventions are frequently seen in RVOT and LVOT #Lifelong #care #CardioTwitter
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Caring for CHD patients anywhere in the world? Join our ESC ACHD WG, No fees, Have a Stronger Voice! https://t.co/url6lme52X
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We are honored for the results of Additional Venture SVRF proposal selection. LEAFLET study will gather investigators from Bologna, Padova, Boston and Brussels to further dissect lymphatic disease in FC. @AdditionalVent @FredWuMD @AnneValente1
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Catheter thrombectomy in a young patient with Fontan anatomy and pulmonary embolism. Most cases of PE in Fontan that have been sent to us have been false positives (timing of image acquisition during CT-PE must be modified for Fontan!) but when it’s real, patients are very sick!
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#ACHD might be a small subspecialty But It is #full of #Amazing
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#Dedicated People! Join @ISACHD to get to know them in our upcoming #ISACHD #CaseOfTheMonth #TopPicks & #HeartToHeart initiatives! https://t.co/dv233on5Wz
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We are thrilled to announce that #JACCAdvances will be fully indexed on PubMed Central. As the general #cardiology #OpenAccess for #JACCJournals, this is an important step to making the journal’s high-impact research accessible to everyone! Congratulations to the journal’s
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Join @DrKBSalc & I June 12th for an interesting discussion about improving equitable outcomes in #CHD for adults and teens transitioning to adult care @ZipperSisters @TCH_adultCHD @MLH_CHD @conqueringchd @sasha_opo @mgurvitzmd @drwaynefranklin @DrPeterTX @wilzawall @FredWuMD
Our next webinar will review past and ongoing challenges in achieving equitable and appropriate #ACHD care and discuss action items for improving access now and in the future. To learn more and register, visit https://t.co/GIQYd8YiYW.
#CHD #CHDAwareness #CHDCare4Life
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For my inbox, the phrase "Greetings for the day" has a 100% specificity for catching solicitations from predatory journals but a sensitivity of only 5%. I need an AI academic spam filter if someone can create one.
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Congratulations to @JenWooMD, #ACHD cardiologist with the @ACHDatStanford Program, on winning the 2024 Young Investigator Research Award for her study, “Premature Aging in Patients with Fontan Circulation,” investigating telomere length in Fontan!
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Congratulations to Rachel Steury, NP-C, of @ChildrensNatl, winner of the 2024 Cardiac Care Professional Research Award, for her abstract entitled “Exploring Mind Body Resilience and Coping/Cognitive Exercises [EMBRACE] in Congenital Heart Disease”! #ACHD #CHD
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Jimmy Kimmel Reveals Son Billy, 7, Successfully Underwent Third Open Heart Surgery: 'Happy, Healthy Kid'
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Jimmy Kimmel's son Billy, 7, successfully underwent his third open heart surgery at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Billy was born with a congenital heart disease in 2017.
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