Let’s beat #HeartDisease together!

Remember when they tried to ‘ban’ surgeons caps?! The AORN decided we all needed to wear lunch lady hats. But then studies showed it made no difference. Such a random and wild example nonesense in medicine where doctors get told what to do.

Stopping aspirin in the first few days after a PCI for acute coronary syndromes and giving Prasugrel or Ticagrelor alone did not meet meet non inferiority compared with Dual Antiplatelet Therapy for 12 months in death/MI / stroke / urgent revasc

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5 lives saved. 5 lung transplants in one Labor Day weekend @BaylorStLukes. Grateful for our team’s dedication and to the donor families who turned grief into the gift of life @BCM_Surgery @BCMLungInst @Texas_Heart @LifeGift #transplant #houston #LaborDay

Story time: I went to DC in 2019 to try to meet with Congress members about No Surprises Act Not seeing patients for a couple days was a huge sacrifice but I thought well worth it given what was at stake: the future of private practice I had a PAC check from my specialty to

Price transparency is bullshit. Your CT scan: $375. The health system’s CT scan: $7,500. Same test. Same radiation. Different mafia. The US only does 90 million of them a year. No big deal. Employers don’t care. Scratch that. Human Resources doesn’t care.

Continuing with my series on "Understanding the Lipid Panel" - one metric at a time: next are insights on Triglycerides. The lipid panel reports Total TG which is an estimate of the mass (weight) of all the glycerides (mono-, bi- and triacylglycerols) in all of the lipoproteins

"I like the army fine so far. They let you sleep in until 5:30 in the morning. On the farm I had to get up at 4:00." ---- Audie Murphy

Texans have always been a rebellious lot, it’s in our blood. Sometimes it shows up in a defiant banner raised in Gonzales, and sometimes we turn our gaze skyward, shoot for the moon, and hit it. Our new beer, Comet Take It, is a hazy ode to (cont...) 1/4

Excited to announce that I am joining @bcmhouston @Texas_Heart as Chief of Advanced Cardiac Imaging. Excited to join a great program with so much legacy & history in CV medicine. Looking forward to join Dr. Joseph Rogers, Dr. Christie Ballantyne, Dr @EGarciaSayan & team.

Grieving the loss of one of my best friends, Jim Lovell. His extraordinary legacy is cemented by many space missions: Gemini VII, Gemini XII, Apollo 8 and Apollo 13. Our mutual respect had no limits. The Gemini XII mission we flew together paved the way for the Apollo

Listen, we have way too many doctors trying to do research. Stop it. Go see some patients.

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My nephew is hospitalized s/p MVA with a complex lower extremity injury that will require surgery. His friends were badly hurt in the accident as well, so he’s also extremely worried about their outcomes. Every night in the hospital, they wake him through the night for temp

What drug in WHAT disease led to this MASSIVE increase in life-expectency?

Awesome graphics illustrating the differences between NSTEMI and STEMI

NEW ISSUE OUT! 📌 State-of-the-art review on the imaging of atherosclerotic plaques; 📌 Low-dose prasugrel monotherapy in ACS; 📌 Supersaturated oxygen therapy in acute anterior MI; 📌 Resting pullback pressure gradient; 📌 Nicardipine and coronary hyperaemia; 📌

This paper is so important and puts to rest those jumping on the VLDL/remnant bandwagon at the expense of ignoring LDLs. What everyone needs to do is order apoB, a one-time Lp(a) and then work hard at lowering apoB. The treatments that lower apoB lower both remnant-P and LDL-P

🤔If high LDL cholesterol is so dangerous… why doesn’t it hurt? ☝️Because evolution doesn’t care if you drop dead after you’ve reproduced. 👉LDL cholesterol is a silent killer—causal, cumulative, and completely asymptomatic. You won’t feel your arteries clogging. You won’t

@DrDiGiorgio I totally agree. Many years ago (in the 1990's), when I was Chief of Surgery, I was publicly excoriated by JCAHO reviewers who opened an ortho chart and failed us because the orthopedist did not have a comprehensive family and social history. Never mind that that the team