Benjamin Kelemen
@ben_kelemen
Interventional and critical care cardiologist. Midwest transplant to SF via Baltimore. Enjoys runs in Marin. Tweets are my own.
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25-03-2020 22:16:38
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Incredibly grateful for the support. Many thanks to my mentors (past and current Isha Jain Javid Moslehi KaelinLab, many others) and UCSF Cardiology UC San Francisco
Welcome Dr. Amir Munir to the #UCSFCardiology faculty starting in July. Dr. Munir completed his fellowships in cardiology and cardio-oncology at UC San Francisco. We are excited to have him join UCSF Health and the Javid Moslehi section.
Matthew Sample 100% of anything probably isn’t appropriate. If you can’t offer patients radial because you don’t have that skill set - it’s time and your lab needs to address that. If you’re 100% radial and you don’t have the ability to safely access a femoral - it’s time and your lab needs to
.Interventional Cardiology at Fort Miley was the 1st VA site in the #US to treat a patient using Boston Scientific’s AGENT Paclitaxel drug-coated balloon (DCB) to treat in-stent restenosis. Dr. Jeffrey Zimmet worked with fellows Rahul Goli & Nicky Herrick during the procedure. Joseph Yang Evelyn J. Song
👋An official welcome to Dr. Amir Munir who starts today. We are excited to have you at UCSF Health! #UCSFCardiology
Congrats 2 Mandar Aras, MD, PhD for his promotion to Associate Professor UCSF Cardiology! Mandar leads our amyloid program in the Section of #CardioOnc & Immunology! Lots of developments in amyloidosis. Looking forward to #ESC2024 for new treatments being announced!
Alex Truesdell Any thoughts on rescuing that LIMA?
Sachin Goel MIЯVΛƬ #IC European Society of Cardiology PCRonline 🫀 NEJM Salvatore Brugaletta Khaled AlShaibi Didier Tchetche Victoria Delgado Javier Escaned Ritu Thamman MD Aditya Bharadwaj Tom Johnson Nieves Gonzalo Greater than or equal to, which is probably an important hair to split. I was pleased to see that their findings agree with "Cohen's rule" as well-- never treat a lesion that is less severe than the patient's age (median age in NOTION 3 was 82).
Navin Kapur Sunil V. Rao Jason N. Katz And if one accepts that logic, then it’s equally critical for the tertiary/quartenary center to have an “open door” transfer policy— much like many do for STEMI. Otherwise, we are doomed to fail.
John Mandrola, MD I am not an oncologist but when the median overall survival is 17 months with standard of care, additional 3 months is clinically significant. If QOL is maintained, this can mean a lot more meaningful life moments for patients.
Proud to announce the creation of the UCSF Pericarditis Center led by Alan Baik! Great addition to UCSF Cardiology Section of #CardioOnc & Immunology! Website made by UCSF Department of Medicine PGY2 resident extraordinaire Aishwarya Nene, MD MPhil! Bob Wachter Mandar Aras, MD, PhD ucsfhealthcardiology.ucsf.edu/patient-care/c…