Dr Jason Dungu PhD FRCP FESC
@drjasondungu
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Consultant Cardiologist, Essex ICC Lead & Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer ARU. Specialist in cardiomyopathy & cardiac imaging. PhD in cardiac amyloidosis.
London & Essex
Joined September 2016
We had the first Essex ICC (Inherited Cardiac Conditions) clinic today ๐๐ฅณ Managing patients with confirmed or suspected ICC, and screening relatives at risk of serious โค๏ธ disease including cardiomyopathy. Huge thanks to @AHardyWallace for her excellent work as new ICC nurse ๐๐พ
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Pleased to share the QUAD Score, our novel #HeartFailure Rx score, & its risk-adjusted association with HF ๐ฅ & ๐ชฆ is now published โฌ๏ธ @ESCHeartFailure. https://t.co/jqHnELg4F7 Designed to help tackle therapeutic inertia and incentivize #GRMT, which can be used by both HF
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It is very exciting to say our Essex ICC team has expanded ๐ L-R @AHardyWallace OG ICC nurse Dr Tony Dimarco ICC & HF consultant Gemma Long 2nd ICC nurse Rachael Allard ICC patient pathway coordinator @drjasondungu Thanks to @SADSUK for funding for additional nurse support ๐๐พ
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ยฃ25 an hour for my new cleaner who started yesterday Doctors on ยฃ17 are striking to get ยฃ23 The fact that Wes Streeting and Labour are pushing the 'doctors are greedy' narrative while my cleaner charges ยฃ2 more, is absolutely shameful
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We received a bound thesis with a heartfelt message inside๐ฅฒ Truly a highlight of my professional career โบ๏ธ
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We said farewell to Dr Jaza Karim today, his long career in cardiology ends on Friday. A very good and experienced clinician, but more importantly one of the kindest human beings I have ever met. We wish him a long and healthy retirement
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I love TOE ๐ Check out this beautiful 3D image showing P3 prolapse with ruptured chordae. Causing very severe mitral valve leak
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Hereโs WHY family history matters with Heart Diseaseโฆ.. And itโs not what you might think! Onion AI ambassador Consultant Cardiologist with special interest in Cardiomyopathies and Cardiac Imaging @drjasondungu , in collaboration with our core medical team, has curated a
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Received a Long Service Award from @MSEHospitals today, presented by Rob Brunger, Associate Director of HR. 10 years @ Basildon Hospital ๐ฒ Proud of what Iโve achieved, especially delivering the Essex ICC service ๐๐พ Worked with great people & honoured to serve our local patients
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Filming an educational video on ATTR-CM this afternoon. Not as easy as it looks ๐
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Expert presentation by @carolinecoats on the lack of geographic differences in response to Aficamten in HOCM, as an extension of SEQUOIA HCM trial #HeartFailure2025
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Promising early data for the novel myosin modulator EDG-7500 (catchy!) from CIRRUS HCM trial, presented by Anjali Owens and discussed by Iacopo Olivotto. Doesnโt affect LVEF so wonโt need serial echo. #HeartFailure2025
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Very exciting study presented by Marianna Fontana. CRISPR gene editing stabilises TTR after 1 dose with no disease progression. No longer science fiction ๐ More impressive, majority of ATTRv pts had p. V142I, so a study with (presumably) at least 19% pts of black ethnicity ๐ค๐๐พ
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Passionate discussion of the importance of GLP-1 in heart failure patients with obesity by Mark Petrie, when discussing the PRAISE-HFrEF trial #HeartFailure2025
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Excellent first Hotline session at #HeartFailure2025 conference. NB I normally come to conferences to get away from this guy ๐คท๐พโโ๏ธ๐๐ค @savodoc
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FINEHEARTS-HF Blinded withdrawal of Finerenone. Another study to show negative effect of drug withdrawal in heart failure therapy. Highlights the importance of TRED-HF 2 trial, to see which of 4 pillars most important to continue. Over to you @bp_halliday ๐ #HeartFailure2025
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First time in Serbia and first time at ESC HF conference ๐ Looking forward to a great meeting in Belgrade! #HeartFailure2025
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Great work by our team @MSEResearchTeam exceeding our target for EASY-AS trial recruitment ๐ช๐พ
๐Amazing work from Ninewells Hospital and Basildon University Hospital for securing a participant each into the study! We're now only at 8 participants more to reach 1,100 worldwide!๐@TheBHF @NHSTayside @MSEHospitals @MSEResearchTeam #BasildonHospital @drjasondungu
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Nice @lukasz_zydzik You could argue you donโt need fancy 3D or even colour Doppler! My training boss @PetrosProf would have stopped imaging after the 2D images ๐
Massive secondary MR in a 74 yo man with beautiful 3D images from TTE showing coaptation defect. #echofirst #CardioTwitter
@dr_benoy_n_shah @argulian @alex1708ander @drjasondungu @iamritu @KemalogluOz @StellEkaterina @DrRajeshG1
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Amazing ๐๐พ๐๐พ๐๐พ๐ Such an honour and so very well deserved for all the hard work and dedication to your patients. Well done @SharonToora ๐คฉ
An honour to attend the Royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace in recognition for contributions across digital health in the NHS. Such a wonderful experience! Thank you to @MSEHospitals @NHSEastEngland for the nomination. @EssexCTC #royalgardenparty
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Great to catch up and thanks again for a great talk ๐๐พ
A pleasure to speak about big data research in #HeartFailure with colleagues and patients @EssexCTC. A great centre doing great work. Many thanks to my friends @savodoc and @drjasondungu for the invitation๐๐ฝ.
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