Like many translational research questions, the one Matthew Yuyun, M.D., Ph.D., is chasing down came straight from his clinical work.
Dr. Yuyun was frustrated by the lack of options for a certain subset of his cardiology patients: those with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, in which the heart pumps normally but is too stiff to fill properly. The condition, which accounts for about 50% of all heart failure and is steadily increasing worldwide, is a significant precursor to cardiac death. Yet, no one knows whether or to what degree abnormal cardiac rhythms might be to blame.
A clinical cardiac electrophysiologist and assistant professor of medicine at Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Dr. Yuyun aims to change that. He is using protected research time as a Harvard Catalyst-funded faculty fellow through Harvard Medical School’s Office for Diversity Inclusion & Community Partnership office to tease out the role of arrythmias in heart failure of this type and increase options for patients like the ones that sparked his research…
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