Shadi Kalantarian, MD, MPH

Today, I became an American Citizen! It took 12 years to move from Student Visa to skilled worker H1B visa to green card to naturalization. While it has been an emotionally and financially exhausting road, I could not be happier! My hope is to shed some light on ...1/n

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Is Reza Pahlavi the next leader of Iran ? YES or NO Comments Your Opinions

Doctors in Iran arrested by the regime for treating protestors •Dr. Alireza Golchini (Surgeon, Qazvin) •Dr. Ameneh Soleimani (Ardabil) •Dr. Farhad Nadali (Surgeon, Gorgan) •Dr. Saber Dehghan (Surgeon, Sirjan) •Dr. Babak Pouramin (Emergency Physician)

This is Iran's 9/11 and October 7th all rolled into one. And multiplied by 20. But what's *even worse* about the savagery they have faced It was done to them by their OWN GOVERNMENT!! The regime must fall FREE IRAN!

Here is an annotated CT scan slice from a 9 year old child shot in the head by the Iranian Regime. This is an axial image from the middle of the child's head. The shotgun pellets have left a hole in the child's skull and lodged in the left frontal lobe. Bone fragments and air have also been pushed into the child's brain. This is a life threatening and life altering injury. The Ayatollah and IRGC are MONSTERS! #IranMassacre‌ @ArmaniiJayy

I’m devastated. A good friend and dormmate of mine, Amin Pourfarhang, has been sentenced to death after protesting in Iran 😭 He’s one of the kindest people I’ve ever known. Please share. Visibility raises the cost for the Islamic Republic and may stop this execution!

BREAKING: Students at Yale University marched in support of the Iranian people and against the Islamic Republic.

@CaryKelly11 You are distributing misinformation and a biased study, maybe reading this will help you understand the limitations of this study better : nutritionsource.hsph.harvard.edu/2016/04/13/die…

The Minnesota Coronary Experiment was a 5-year study and stands out as the most rigorous clinical trial ever to compare the effects of seed oils vs saturated fats, due to its exceptional controls. It was carried out in 6 state mental hospitals and 1 nursing home in Minnesota and involved 9,423 participants (1968-1973). One group ate food cooked/prepared with seed oil and one group ate food cooked/prepared with saturated fat. The seed oil group lowered their cholesterol as predicted but here's the kicker, that group died much younger than the saturated fat group: For every 30 mg/dL reduction in serum cholesterol, the risk of death increased by 22%. The researchers were so disappointed with the results that the study wasn't published until 15 years later! Every doctor should know about this study.

@peterkistler3 @ESC_Journals @AhmedAlkaisey Would it matter if we catch a persistent AF within the first couple of months of becoming persistent versus much later? 3/3

@peterkistler3 @ESC_Journals @AhmedAlkaisey This is a very interesting study but I do not think this is a fair conclusion. Even though this is a randomized trial, the early ablation group has 54% persistent AF versus 37% in late ablation and the ultimate post ablation burden is low in both groups. 1/2

No need to rush to AF ablation: Impact of early vs. delayed atrial fibrillation catheter ablation on atrial arrhythmia recurrences academic.oup.com/eurheartj/arti… @ESC_Journals @AhmedAlkaisey

@peterkistler3 @ESC_Journals @AhmedAlkaisey It may be true that the timing of ablation won’t matter for paroxysmal AF patients (as long as they remain paroxysmal ) but the results may be much different if you catch a persistent AF patient early on and that’s what we need to know clinically.2/3

@drimdadahmed @Nishaki1 @skarim01 @drpaari @RashadKhaziSyed @BilalAyubMD @DanielAlyeshmer @KrishKancharla @FYang_EP Zio and Preventice. Zio is often more accurate

What holter/ event monitor company do you use ? I am looking for recommendation. #EPeeps @Nishaki1 @skarim01 @drpaari @RashadKhaziSyed @BilalAyubMD @DanielAlyeshmer @KrishKancharla @FYang_EP

If you cannot uphold your Hippocratic Oath and provide care to all humans equally, you SHOUlD not be a doctor. “One cannot vow to keep every human from harm and injustice and later say that they desire protection from doing so.”

@DGlaucomflecken More like electrophysiology! It’s longer than neurosurgery 🤷🏻‍♀️

Calm down everybody. Twitter won’t end. It can’t end. It’s a neurosurgery residency and we’re doing all the fellowships.

Epicardial PFA directly on coronary arteries leads to acute spasm that resolves over 30-minutes and chronic mild stenosis/neointimal hyperplasia. Limitation of PFA on/near CAs with current waveforms. @satoshihgc @SUNGILIM1 @jskoruth authors.elsevier.com/a/1f%7EJ4,siTg…

Fibrous Skeleton of the Heart and Adjacent Structures. doi.org/10.1148/rg.201…

Impressive signals on Octaray multi-spline catheter during mapping of post-infarct VT. None of these signals seen with ablation catheter with larger electrode size. Nice mapping by @WongChrisX.

@DrPRao @SaurabhkumarEp @JACCJournals @JeffHsuMD @DhruvSeshadri @louisanicola_ @MichaelEmeryMD i.e. don’t go into medicine…this is the sleep pattern for many doctors in their 20s and early 30s …and of course after training it’s time to have kids!

Study published in @JACCJournals shows that it takes just 2 weeks of sleeping 4 hours/night to make you eat more, gain weight, and gain fat in all the wrong places. 🔑takeaway: Prioritize diet, exercise & 𝙎𝙇𝙀𝙀𝙋 for optimal cardiometabolic health bit.ly/3BCneoU

@drimdadahmed @RashadKhaziSyed @drpaari @skarim01 @BilalAyubMD @rdebiasi3 @Nishaki1 4.0 Vicryl and dermabond

What suture do you use for subcuticular layer during device closure? Do you use glue?@RashadKhaziSyed @drpaari @skarim01 @BilalAyubMD @rdebiasi3 @Nishaki1 #epeeps

@Ed_Gerst Haha, per @jdunkel who test taste all our expired pantry items it never does!

Important question. Does syrup ever expire?

@Hapa_EP @SplitHis @EPeeps_Bot @HISrefrPVC @MRazminia @narrowQRS @Ed_Gerst @HHsiaMD @aalahmadmd What’s their underlying disease? Their baseline ECG is pretty abnormal too… ICM?

@SplitHis @EPeeps_Bot @HISrefrPVC @MRazminia @narrowQRS @Ed_Gerst @HHsiaMD @aalahmadmd @EPShadi Discordance with II (-) III (+), and aVR (+) aVL (-) is classic, but sometimes will have II and III both positive with much smaller R in II.

Where is pvc originating from? 🤔 ⁦@HISrefrPVC⁩ ⁦@MRazminia⁩ ⁦@narrowQRS⁩ ⁦@Ed_Gerst⁩ ⁦@HHsiaMD⁩ ⁦@aalahmadmd⁩ ⁦@EPShadi⁩ @EPeeps_Bot⁩ #Epeeps