Massachusetts General Hospital

BiographyDr. Semigran is a graduate of the Harvard/MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program and completed Internal Medicine Residency and Cardiology Fellowship Training at Massachusetts General Hospital.  He is Medical Director of theMGH  Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Program and conducts clinical and translational reserarch targeting novel approaches to heart failure and  

Publications

Hemodynamic effects of inhaled nitric oxide in RV myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2004;44:793-8.

Hemodynamic effects of sildenafil in patients with CHF and pulmonary hypertension: combined administration with inhaled nitric oxide. Chest. 2005;127:1647-53.

Combined administration of intravenous dipyridamole and inhaled nitric oxide to assess reversibility of pulmonary arterial hypertension in potential cardiac transplant recipients. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2005;24:1950-6.

Sildenafil improves coronary artery patency in a canine model of platelet-mediated cyclic coronary occlusion after thrombolysis. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2006;47:1471-7.

Sildenafil improves exercise hemodynamics and oxygen uptake in patients with systolic heart failure. Circulation. 2007;115:59-66.

Sildenafil improves exercise capacity and quality of life in patients with systolic heart failure and secondary pulmonary hypertension. Circulation. 2007;116:1555-62.

Determinants of ventilatory efficiency in heart failure: the role of right ventricular performance and pulmonary vascular tone. Circ Heart Fail. 2008;1:227-233.

A heartwarming wedding on Ellison 10

MGH Hotline 1.15.10 It's not often one encounters a touching love story within the four walls of the hospital.

A life-saving gift

MGH Hotline 4.2.10 IN THE UNITED STATES ALONE, there are more than 100,000 candidates on the United Network for Organ Sharing organ and tissue waiting list.