FaroucAJafferMD

Interventional Cardiology

Director, Coronary Intervention and CTO PCI Program, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School

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Office
55 Fruit St
Interventional Cardiology Associates GRB 813
Boston, MA 02114
Phone+1 617-726-1443

Fax+1 617-726-7419

Dr. Farouc Jaffer is a cardiologist in Boston, MA and is affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his medical degree from Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and has been in practice 21 years. He specializes in adult congenital heart disease and interventional cardiology and is experienced in atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction, cardiac catheterization, coronary angiography, and percutaneous coronary intervention.

Massachusetts General HospitalFellowship, Interventional Cardiology, 2002 - 2003
Massachusetts General HospitalFellowship, Cardiovascular Disease, 1999 - 2002
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of PennsylvaniaClass of 1996

PubMed

49 citations
Predicting Periprocedural Complications in Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: The PROGRESS-CTO Complication Scores.
Bahadir Simsek, Spyridon Kostantinis, Judit Karacsonyi, Khaldoon Alaswad, Oleg Krestyaninov
JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions. 2022-07-25
242 citations
Development and Validation of a Novel Scoring System for Predicting Technical Success of Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Interventions: The PROGRESS CTO ...
Georgios Christopoulos, David E. Kandzari, Robert W. Yeh, Farouc A. Jaffer, Dimitri Karmpaliotis
JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions. 2016-01-11
140 citations
The Hybrid Approach to Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Update From the PROGRESS CTO Registry.
Peter Tajti, Dimitri Karmpaliotis, Khaldoon Alaswad, Farouc A. Jaffer, Robert W. Yeh
JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions. 2018-07-23

Journal Articles

A New Decade of Old Questions
Farouc A Jaffer, James K Min, ScienceDirect
Quantitative Intravascular Biological Fluorescence-Ultrasound Imaging of Coronary and Peripheral Arteries in Vivo
Eric A Osborn, Farouc A Jaffer, European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging

Lectures

Intravascular Near-Infrared Fluorescence and ÂµOCT: Leveraging In Vivo Biology to Inform Plaque Progression and Stent Failure
2019 ACC Scientific Session & Expo, New Orleans - 3/18/2019
Interventional Live Case Session VI: Coronary Transmission from University of Washington Medical Center
2019 ACC Scientific Session & Expo, New Orleans - 3/17/2019
Highlighted Original Research: Interventional Cardiology and the Year in Review
2019 ACC Scientific Session & Expo, New Orleans - 3/17/2019
CTO or Bust!
2019 ACC Scientific Session & Expo, New Orleans - 3/16/2019
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Imaging the Intersection of Oxidative Stress, Lipids, and Inflammation Progress Toward Personalized Care of AtherosclerosisJanuary 2018

Peripheral Artery Disease in Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary InterventionAugust 9th, 2024
Ranolazine in Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary InterventionApril 30th, 2024
Amarin Highlights New Data Providing Potential Mechanistic Insight into Vascepa®/Vazkepa® (Icosapent Ethyl) Reduction of Cardiovascular EventsMay 12th, 2023
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