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Division of Vascular Surgery at Stanford
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🧬 New from Nazish Sayed MD, MS, PhD in Circulation: Using in silico screening and patient-derived stem cell models, researchers identify olmesartan as a promising therapy for LMNA-related cardiomyopathy—a novel approach to treating genetic heart failure. 🔗: ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…

🧬 Genome-wide study from Dr. Shaunak Adkar in Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine identifies 5 novel loci linked to intracranial aneurysm and implicates pericytes & smooth muscle cells—pointing to matrix deficits as a potential driver, independent of smoking or hypertension. 🔗: ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…

📊 New in Annals of Vascular Surgery from Drs. Venita Chandra & Arash Fereydooni: 2024 vascular surgery applicants preferred virtual interviews (57%)—but 66% moved programs up after second-look visits. 🔗: annalsofvascularsurgery.com/article/S0890-…

🧪🧠New in @sciencemagazine from Nick Leeper: The antipsychotic thiothixene boosts macrophage clearance of dying cells—efferocytosis—by blocking dopamine signaling. Could open doors for treating atherosclerosis, cancer, and chronic inflammation. 🔗: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

New from Dr. Arash Fereydooni in JACC Journals: 🩸 A rare case of metastatic popliteal angiosarcoma in a patient with Loeys-Dietz syndrome led to fatal hemorrhage—highlighting the need to consider malignancy in atypical vascular bleeding. 🔗: jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.…

🚨 New Episode Alert 🚨 We’re joined by Stanford’s Chief of Vascular Medicine, Nick Leeper! 🔗 Tune in here: surgery.stanford.edu/research/scrub… Stanford Vascular #hearthealth

FDA has cleared Bunkerhill AAQ, the first AI algorithm to automatically measure abdominal aortic diameter on CT scans with or without contrast. Developed at Stanford by Dr. Oliver Aalami and Adrit Rao. 🔗 Read the story: bunkerhillhealth.com/resources/fda-…