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Interventional cardiologist, cardiovascular outcomes & policy researcher, sports fan, @PennMedicine, @VAPhiladelphia, @PennLDI, tweets reflect only my opinions
Mar 5, 2023 9 tweets 5 min read
🧵 @InariMedical FLAME trial (largest ever high risk PE study) presented today @ACCinTouch #ACC23 by Mitch Silver!

Details in this thread below 2/ The FLAME trial was 2 parallel prospective registries of high risk PE patients at 11 US hospitals. All patients had hypotension or arrest.

One arm (n=53) included pts treated with Flowtriever large bore embolectomy.

Pts in “context” arm (n=61) treated with other therapies
Sep 14, 2018 18 tweets 6 min read
1/ THREAD Is @ABIMFoundation Interventional Cardiology (IC) board certification associated with improved outcomes after PCI? Latest study from all-star cardiovascular and @PennLDI fellow Sameed Khatana in @CircIntv investigates:
ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI… 2/ Sameed used data from the NY state PCI registry crosslinked with info from @doximity and other publicly available sources to see if the following MD characteristics were associated with better outcomes after PCI...