

Tim Churchill, MD
282 posts

@TimChurchillMD
Cardiologist | Sports and Exercise Science | All thoughts my own



1/⚡️How to assess tricuspid valve by TOE #echofirst? ➡️What's the role of X-plane? ➡️How to get the best 3D image? ➡️Tips and tricks about transgastric view ➡️What we need to know about pacemaker lead Take a look this thread 🧵 @NMerke @iamritu @hahn_rt @denisamuraru @lpbadano

Huge congrats to @emilyswlau @MGHHeartHealth @MGHWomenHeart @mghcvrc for being this year's ACC @DougZipes awardee! 🎉 Incredibly well-deserved honor for an amazing clinician and scientist @JenHoCardiology @DougDrachmanMD @patrick_ellinor @ddefariayeh @pnatarajanmd @WomenAs1

Sports Cardiology is placing increasing emphasis on shared decision-making in the management of arrhythmias and risk. The importance of arrhythmia management in athletes is explored in our Harvard Grand Rounds on Sports EP. Watch Now 👉 buff.ly/47Bbz7x @MGHHeartHealth

📰👀 Exercise Pulmonary Hypertension by the mPAP/CO slope in Primary Mitral Regurgitation. Read our last paper in @ESC_Journals: academic.oup.com/ehjcimaging/ar… 🧵✅ 🇧🇪@Ph_Bertrand @VerwerftJan @HerbotsLieven @sarahhoed @YouriBekhuis @maartenfalter @JasaityteRuta @pietvandervoort





Do you really need CPET to estimate exercise capacity? Deep learned representations of the resting 12-lead electrocardiogram to predict at peak exercise academic.oup.com/eurjpc/article… #SportsCardiology #CPET #PeakVO2 #deeplearning #exercise




@jonathankimmd @TimChurchillMD I think there are lots of aspects open to research on this: is the #SCD risk tolerance the same for all the #athletes or does it change according to #age and most of all type of #sport? This is just an example. Happy to collaborate if wished/useful.










Debunking the myth of the weekend warrior risk. Same cardiovascular benefit for ≥ 150 minutes of physical activity/week, irrespective of number of days @patrick_ellinor @MGHHeartHealth @shaan_khurshid jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… @JAMA_current





What's the impact of 'weekend warrior' exercise (most activity in 1-2 days/wk) vs regular workouts? In our new @JAMA_Current analysis among 90k @uk_biobank w/ accelerometry we saw similar ⬇️in #CV events! jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… @MGHHeartHealth @broadinstitute @patrick_ellinor


