
Matt Deshotels
@mattdeshotels
Cardiology Fellow at Baylor College of Medicine
ID: 1417313976870969344
20-07-2021 02:42:51
18 Tweet
147 Followers
536 Following

Read our latest review published with Springer Nature in Current Cardiology Reports advocating for the reinstatement of lipid monitoring as a performance measure to evaluate adherence and efficacy of lipid-lowering therapy pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34269897/ Christie Ballantyne Salim Virani


Why Combination Lipid-Lowering Therapy Should be Considered Early in the Treatment of Elevated LDL-C For CV Risk Reduction - American College of Cardiology Matt Deshotels vijay nambi Salim Virani BCM Cardiology National Lipid Association acc.org/Latest-in-Card…

Congrats Christie Ballantyne and Salim Virani! Incredibly grateful to train with mentors who have the vision and energy to push their field forward vijay nambi Xiaoming Jia Aliza Hussain, MD Ali Agha Anum Saeed

Disappointing results but more focused individual education and feedback on individual performance may be needed. Time to make LDLC a quality metric @cpcannon Mikhail Kosiborod Dr. Deepak L. Bhatt National Lipid Association BCM Cardiology


Genetic Testing for Hypertriglyceridemia in Academic Lipid Clinics: Implications for Precision Medicine ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.116… Pathogenic variant + high polygenic risk score = increased TGs and increased pancreatitis Matt Deshotels Trevor Hadley

@JJheart_doc Thank you for this wonderful tweetorial. I have been using BNP in clinic (generally order it when HF patients get the stick for BMP check etc). Great to hear there is now strong data to support this practice 👍 Tagging my BCM Cardiology #ACCFIT my clinic fellow Matt Deshotels

Wonderful journal club w Roger Blumenthal BCM Cardiology Arunima Misra Layla Abushamat Ali Agha Matt Deshotels Mini Varughese, MD and special guest Khurram Nasir Great to see that Khurram has no hard feelings after losing debate to me and @AnnMarieNavar

Vital exhaustion is associated with myocardial injury/ stress and CVD - mental wellness important for cardiac health #aric Christie Ballantyne Erin D. Michos, M.D. BCM Media Relations Matt Deshotels Roger Blumenthal

In PROSPECT II, elevated TC, LDL-C, and non-HDL-C were strongly associated with pancoronary #atherosclerosis & lipid deposition, whereas elevated Lp(a) was strongly associated with the presence of focal vulnerable plaques jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.… #JACC #ASCVD #cvAMI Gregg W. Stone MD
