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A Percutaneous Permanent Carotid Filter for Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fib...
AbstractBackgroundHigh stroke risk atrial fibrillation patients unsuitable to oral anticoagulants (OAC) require other stroke prevention strategies. A novel permanent coil filter directly placed into both common carotid arteries (CCAs) was designed to capture emboli >1.4mm diameter.ObjectivesIn a multicenter, non-randomized, first-in-human ...
Published on 2019-05-11

American Heart Association Joins National Academy of Medicine’s Action Co...
American Heart Association CEO Nancy Brown issued the following statement about the launch of the National Academy of Medicine’s Action Collaborative for Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic. ...
Published on 2019-04-30

Impact of Hemodynamic Support on Outcome in Patients Undergoing High-Risk P...
The use of left-ventricular (LV) hemodynamic support might facilitate high-risk percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) in patients with complex coronary artery disease. The impact on outcome is a matter of ongoing debate. We assessed the outcome of high-risk patients who underwent ...
Published on 2019-04-09

Cancer: Breakthrough treatments to target drug resistance
The first treatments could be available within a decade, say scientists setting up a research centre. ...
Published on 2019-05-16

Mustafa Ahmed MD, is a Structural Heart Specialist, Interventional Cardiologist and Scientist, he is the director of the Structural Heart Disease Program at Princeton Baptist Medical Center.
Mustafa Ahmed MD
Dr. Philip Johnson is originally from Selma, AL but currently lives in Birmingham. He is the founder of Abel Healthcare Enterprises and is a board certified cardiologist and a biomedical engineer having trained at UAB and Vanderbilt University.
Philip Johnson, MD, PhD
Dr. David McGiffin is the Director of Cardiothoracic Surgery & Transplantation at the world renowned Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. He is originally from Australia, but previously had a long and distinguished career as a Cardiovascular and Transplant Surgeon at UAB in Birmingham, AL.
David McGiffin, MD
Dr. Guichard is a physician-scientist who is dual trained in clinical medicine and basic science research. He completed his training through a highly competitive and prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded
Jason L. Guichard, MD, PhD
Dr. Murtaza Ahmed is originally from Nottingham, England, and attended the prestigious Nottingham High School from 1991-2002. Upon graduating amongst the top 1% nationally he was admitted to The University of Nottingham
Murtaza Ahmed, MD
Dr. Mark Law is a pediatric cardiologist practicing at Children's Hospital of Alabama. He attended medical school at The Ohio State University and trained in pediatric cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine.
Mark Law, MD
Dr. Alain Bouchard is a clinical cardiologist at Cardiology PC in Birmingham, AL. He is a native of Quebec, Canada and trained in Internal Medicine at McGill University in Montreal. He is currently Chief of Cardiology and Medical Director of Research at Cardiology PC.
Alain Bouchard, MD
Dr. Oscar Julian booker was born in Ozark Alabama. He currently lives in the Birmingham area with his wife Amy and two children, Hayden and Morgan. Dr. Booker attended undergraduate at Morehouse College where he studied biology and economics.
Julian Booker, MD
Dr. Stephen W. Russell is an award-winning Physician and author. He is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB), caring for patients of all ages in the clinic as well as the hospital.
Stephen Russell, MD
Dr. Kharod is a native of the sunny coasts of Tampa, FL. He developed a keen interest in science from a young age and after high school attended a combined six year BA/MD program at the University of Missouri in Kansas City.
Anant Kharod, MD
Shabbir Husain was born in Cleveland, Ohio and spent much of his childhood there. At the age of 10, he moved to Sydney, Australia where he would attend the highly-regarded Barker College
Shabbir Husain, CPA