Farooq Sheikh
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Medical Director, Advanced Heart Failure Program @MedStarHealth @GUMedicine
Washington, DC
Joined April 2009
Selective in vitro enhancement of cardiac myosin motor function and myofilament force generation by danicamtiv prompted clinical evaluation. A short course of danicamtiv was generally well tolerated in participants with #DCM. https://t.co/OS5zxv1hLT
#HFSA2025 #JACC #cvGenetics
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🚨 Just released in @JCardFail - the @HFSA HF Stats 2025 report! 💔1 in 4 Americans will develop heart failure in their lifetime 💲Costs could soar to $858B by 2050 📖 Read the report ➡️ https://t.co/sxkY9RL5Gn 📺 Watch the highlights w/ @gcfmd ➡️ https://t.co/FGnYWXYFgZ
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Hiring Alert! MedStar Health is seeking a Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician Assistant (PA) to join our Infiltrative Cardiomyopathy Program within the Advanced Heart Failure team at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. See job posting below:
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Presented at #ESCCongress: In patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction who were receiving guideline-directed medical therapy, digitoxin lowered the risk of death or hospitalization for heart failure as compared with placebo. Full DIGIT-HF phase 4 trial results:
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Consensus statement by Kobashigawa & Zuckermann et al. reviews evaluation/management of circulating #antibodies before & after #HeartTx, and antibody-mediated rejection. @SmidtHeart @ManlaYosef 🔗:
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The understanding of circulating antibodies and their relationship to antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) has yet to be fully elucidated in heart transplantation. Circulating antibodies are important...
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Single-nucleus RNA-seq reveals CD47 as a key driver of doxorubicin cardiomyopathy. Blocking CD47 protects the heart—offering a new therapeutic path. 🫀🧬@SDPrabhuMD @AartiAsnaniMD @BKopeckyMDPhD @twinsmc18 @AhmedAADiab @carmenbergom @Alicardsdoc
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🚨 Hot off the press: JACC Advances SGLT2i ↓ myocardial glucose uptake on FDG-PET: ▪️ 374-pt matched cohort ▪️ “No uptake” in 65 % on SGLT2i vs 37 % controls ▪️ Total myocardial glycolysis ⬇️ despite ↑ prescan glucose Metabolic shift may underlie CV benefits & carries
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“Out of Sequence Heart Transplants: Why, How Many, and to Whom” Our new analysis in @TheJHLT on the prevalence and factors associated with out of sequence heart allocation @ColumbiaCVRI
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Heart transplantation (HT) is governed by the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, which commissions 56 organ procurement organizations (OPO) to perform allocation. Each allocation follows...
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📢 Largest study to date of HFimpEF—out in JACC! 🫀 Among >28K new HFrEF patients, 1 in 3 improved to HFimpEF within 12 months ⚠️ Risk remains: • HF events ↓ • Mortality ↓ • GDMT use declined 🔍 Continuing GDMT is critical. @ankeetbhatt @ATSandhu
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A classy gesture from Alex de Minaur 👏 He consoles Davidovich Fokina after a heartbreaking final. 💔 #MubadalaCitiDCOpen
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Heart disease is still the #1 killer in the United States, but it's no longer from heart attacks...instead it's from heart failure and arrhythmias https://t.co/DJ92PYjwIq
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How can the win ratio be effectively used and communicated in cardiovascular clinical trials? https://t.co/ie1DldAXwb
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#JACCIMG explores the role of #whyCMR in lamin heart disease. CMR detects abnormal T2, ECV, & myocardial mechanics before any decline in systolic function. More LGE & worse mechanics appear to have prognostic potential. https://t.co/Xoe9pYBfjZ
#LMNA #DCM
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🚨LATE-BREAKING DATA this weekend at #HeartFailure2025. @NirUrielMD presented a comparative analysis on 2-year survival outcomes for #HeartMate3 LVAD and HTx patients <50 showing a 12% reduced mortality when measured from time of HM3 implant compared to death or delisting from
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And we have the same #JCFFamily protocol at @JCFINT! ✅ Rapid turnaround time ✅ Thoughtful assessment ✅ Open communication with authors ✅ No reformatting required @JasonKatzMD @Carnicelli_Ant @SarahChuzi @ElliottMillerMD @ShahzebKhanMD @JulieDoberne @hcg_md @HFSA
Don't let great research stall. With JCF Express: Court of Appeals you can submit your previously reviewed manuscript for an expedited editorial decision. No starting over. No wasted effort. Resubmit today https://t.co/5VaTa2IqRB
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Father of contemporary preventive cardiology movement 🙌 Thanks for giving many of us the foundation to carry forward your message🙏
Congratulations to @rblument1 on this well-deserved recognition, honored with the Pioneer in Prevention Award for his outstanding contributions to the field! 🎉#PreventiveCardiology #Leadership #ASCPC2025
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Congrats @IMMWHC Saad Mohammad and @GTCardFellows @MLorenteRos for this fantastic presentation at #ISHLT2025 on RVAD strategy and outcomes post-LVAD at our center! The future of cardiology is bright! @MedStarWHC @fsheikh22 @RichaGuptaMD @BKenigsberg
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