Participated in 2 Live cases for #ACC24
🫀 Peripheral: CTO L-SFA (ADR)
🫀 Coronary: CTO PCI RCA (retrograde, guideliner facilitated X-CART via tortuous epicardial collaterals)
🫶🏼 learning from the best🌟 Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute J Aaron Grantham JAG Dany Jacob Matthew Bunte

Proud of Dr Uttsav Sandesara, our Heart Failure fellow at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, for doing an interview with @tctmd on his experience training as an internist training in HF

Eiran Gorodeski, MD, MPH

Dr. Andrew J Sauer MD from Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute presented a hopeful message today at #ACC24 , sharing a report from American Heart Association’s IMPLEMENT-HF initiative. Learn more here: heart.org/en/professiona…

Andrew J Sauer MD presents to a crowd on on quadruple medial therapy uptake across regions with IMPLEMENT-HF
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American College of Cardiology #ACC24 AHAMeetings John Spertus Mikhail Kosiborod Mirza Khan Evan O'Keefe Charles F. Sherrod IV MD Dan Nguyen Brett Sperry, MD Healthcare Institute for Innovations in Quality Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute Saint Luke's

Breaking🔥 STEP-HFpEF-DM 🔥

Semaglutide (vs placebo) leads to more weight loss, improved health status (KCCQ-CSS), increased walking distance, improved glycemic control, reduced inflammation (CRP), reduced natriuretic peptides, reduced HF hospitalizations, with favorable safety…

Standing room only for Mikhail Kosiborod presenting STEP HFpEF diabetes study at #ACC2024

Improved KCCQ, 6MWD, and weight loss with semaglutide versus placebo

Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute

Congratulations Adnan Chhatriwalla and Chetan Huded on this important paper showing that 44% of patients who underwent MTEER in the TVTR were COAPT-ineligible.

Ineligible patients had similar 30d health status but ⬆️ 1yr death/HFH compared with eligible patients.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38267110/

Late Breakers Announced for ACC!

STEP-HFpEF-DM

Saturday April 6th

Mikhail Kosiborod
American College of Cardiology
Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute
Saint Luke's

Important article from the National Amyloidosis Center on prognostic implications of albuminuria in ATTR-CM.

Progressive renal failure, need for escalating diuretics, and albuminuria are bad signs.

Great to work with you on this editorial Shahzeb Khan and Javed Butler!

Thrilled to announce our cardiology fellowship match results for 2024!

Congratulations to these 5 future cardiologists and to our fellowship leadership team of Drs Enriquez and Khumri for recruiting them!

1) Welcome to a 🆕 #accredited #tweetorial entitled 'What Every #Cardiologist Should Know About #ATTR_CE .' Our expert faculty is Brett Sperry, MD Brett Sperry, MD, #HeartTransplant #LVAD #NuclearCardiology #amyloidosis #sarcoidosis expert from @SaintLukesKC & Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute

Another poster session, reporting results of our psychometric performance evaluation of KCCQ-12 in obstructive HCM.

I got to be the mentee on this analysis and I learned a lot from John Spertus the grand master on how to properly assess and validate PRO tools.

Stacy L Farr, PhD, MPH…

Dinner and Drinks with amazing company at AHAMeetings AHA Science !

Dr Fred
Paul Heidenreich
Missing John Spertus Harlan Krumholz
Healthcare Institute for Innovations in Quality
Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute

Dr Charles F. Sherrod IV MD presenting KCCQ & NYHA class in HCM with EXPLORER-HCM to a crowd at AHAMeetings #AHA23
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Andrew J Sauer MD John Spertus Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute Saint Luke's Healthcare Institute for Innovations in Quality AHA Science

SO proud of Dr. Maria Alvarenga and her rockstar implementation science work with CodeHF, a novel decision aid for HF in the ED. AHAMeetings #AHA23
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Maria Alvarenga Healthcare Institute for Innovations in Quality
John Spertus Andrew J Sauer MD Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute Saint Luke's AHA Science

Dr. Sean McCarney, a cardiothoracic surgeon, and Kelly, a cardiovascular nurse, walked into Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute on the morning of Oct. 5 with our 1,000th heart donation.

We honor the memory and compassion of every organ donor and their selfless gift of life to another. ❤️

Happy to host Dr. Philip Chang today for cardiovascular #GrandRounds , an expert in pediatric electrophysiology at Children's Mercy, to discuss arrhythmias in patients with adult congenital heart disease.

The expert heart transplant team at @midamericheart performed its 1,000th heart transplant on Thursday, Oct. 5, becoming only the 23rd hospital in the nation to reach the prestigious milestone.

Learn more: saintlukeskc.org/1KHearts