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Anna Kate Barton
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Cardiology Registrar and @TheBHF PhD student at📍@EdinburghUni 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and📍 @CedarsSinai 🌴 🇺🇸 interests:🫀PET and Heart Failure
Always exciting to see new HF agents in development! I enjoyed reading this interesting study using porcine model of HF with some promising outcomes for MiR-132. Available now in @escardio.bsky.social journal EHJ-IMP: academic.oup.com/ehjimp/artic...
MiR-132 inhibition improves myocardial strain in a large animal model of chronic left ventricular adverse remodelling
AbstractAims. Cardiac miR-132 has been proposed as a target for heart failure (HF) therapy. CDR132L, a rationally designed synthetic oligonucleotide inhibi
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August 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Delighted w our Cunsensus Document on preventing heart failure in cardiac-oncology at #EJHF @escardio.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Potential importance of SGLTi noted academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advan...

With great colleagues who R not on Blue Sky-repost to attract them here!
July 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Conduction system pacing: promoting the physiology to prevent HF

Background and Clinical perspectives of HBP and LBBP area in HF
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#HF #CardioSky #CardioEd @cardioobdoc.bsky.social @drrajivsankar.bsky.social @annakatebarton.bsky.social @vietheartpa.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Two years ago we published our seminal meta-analysis on risk factors of long covid- cited 548 times & the WHO guidelines @JAMA.com

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Females, elderly, smokers, obese, comorbidities & hospitalisation had higher risk

One thing protected from long covid: vaccination
March 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.
March 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Impact of Smoking on Coronary Volume–to–Myocardial Mass Ratio

Myocardial Mass Drives Unfavorable Changes in Smokers’ Hearts

#CardioSky #RadSky
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February 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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February 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Pleasantly surprised (and honoured!) to see this fantastic podcast covering our recent FAPI PET/MR publication from JACC and Professor Valentin Fuster. Listen to his take here:

www.jacc.org/digital-cont...

#CardioSky #RadSky
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Podcast Episode: Myocardial Fibroblast Activation After Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Positron Emission Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Study
In this podcast, Dr. Valentin Fuster discusses a groundbreaking study by Dr. Anna Barton and her team on myocardial fibroblast activation following acute myocardial infarction. Using advanced imaging ...
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February 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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#CardioSky #MedSky
February 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Among the all talks at #scmr25 i was particularly touched by @ElsieRadiology talk:

1️⃣Find Joy+meaning of ur work
2️⃣Find your people
3️⃣Take initiative
4️⃣Establish a personalized work-life balance
5️⃣Be patient to yourself

Growth comes from experience:learn, evolve, and rise!
February 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Welcome to Ensuring Success with Heart Failure 2025!

Kicking off for the first session Dr Caroline Coats covers NT-proBNP in clinical practice:

🫀 Useful summary of what factors affect the result
🫀raised NT-proBNP =/= HF!!
🫀 Excellent negative predictive value ✅

#CardioSky #MedSky
January 29, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Professor Mark Petrie takes us through detecting the aetiology of heart failure

🫀 need to do more digging rather than label of HFpEF or HFrEF
🫀 be comprehensive - genetics, drugs
🫀 Inflammatory cardiomyopathies are more common than you think!

#CardioSky #MedSky #EchoSky
January 29, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Dr Eilidh Hill shares some geriatric perspective pearls of wisdom on managing frailty and HF:

🫀 Comprehensive strategy to identify and correct problems
🫀HF + frailty = worse outcomes🫀 Most important to IDENTIFY frailty

#MedSky #CardioSky
January 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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This is written by the bishop who stood up to Orange Voldemort. Everyone should be buying this. It's available on Amazon for $14. I'm an atheist and I'm buying it. #booksky
January 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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January 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Well, well, well...🙄
January 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Any good resources or thoughts/practices on assesing weaning from VA ECMO in isolated RV failure? #emimcc #cccsky
January 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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‘Acceptance of failure’ - so what’s the alternative? Not ‘fix social care’ - I mean today? What is the alternative *today*?
January 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Be the person your cat thinks you are.
January 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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