Job title: Associate Professor, Section of Cardiology
Personal History
Dr Arunima Misra is based in Houston, Texas, where she works as Associate Professor and Director of Nuclear Cardiology at the Baylor College of Medicine.
Academic History
Dr Misra trained in medical school and completed her residency at UT Southwestern Medical School. She did both her research and clinic fellowship in cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine,…
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Job title: Head of the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine
DrGuarracino is Head of the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine and Director of Cardiothoracic and vascular Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria in Pisa, Italy.
His main research interests are in perioperative echocardiography, acute heart failure and pathophysiology of shock.
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Job title: Associate Director of the Jobst Vascular Institute, and Adjunct Research Professor
Dr Fedor Lurie is the Associate Director of the Jobst Vascular Institute, and Adjunct Research Professor at the Section of Vascular Surgery, University of Michigan.
Dr Lurie’s clinical research included studies of vascular reconstructive surgery, natural history of vascular diseases, management of patients with acute DVT, and studies of compression therapy. His basic science research included…
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Job title: Professor of Clinical Cardiology
Dr Peter Collins is Professor of Clinical Cardiology, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust.
Dr Collins’ research interests include coronary flow control mechanisms, both in normal and disease states including ischemic heart disease, hypertension and…
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Author(s):
Mattia Arrigo,
Petra Nijst,
Alain Rudiger
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3 years ago
Heart failure is a clinical syndrome induced by cardiac abnormalities resulting in reduced cardiac output and/or elevated intra-cardiac end-diastolic pressures and causing symptoms that are often accompanied by typical physical signs.1 Demographic changes, improved treatment of several acute cardiac disorders, such myocardial infarction, arrhythmia and congenital heart disease, and increased long…
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