Young Adult With Congenital Heart Disease Has Completed Three Marathons…and Counting
Alexa, born with tetralogy of Fallot, thrives today as a nurse and marathon runner thanks to adult congenital heart disease care at Mass General Brigham.
Corrigan Minehan Heart Center
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Nathan Sciortino, M.A.
Director of Operations
Cardiovascular Imaging Core Lab
Massachusetts General Hospital Imaging
25 New Chardon Street, Suite 400B
Boston,
MA
02114
Phone: 617-643-5308
Fax: 617-643-0111
Email: nsciortino@partners.org
The Cardiovascular Imaging Core Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital is an independent facility dedicated to providing the highest quality services to the cardiovascular imaging community. We operate as a professional, compartmented PACS/RIS/data management facility capable of handling administrative and scientific aspects of large multicenter trials compliant with FDA/NIH regulations, and can provide qualitative and quantitative analysis of cardiovascular imaging data sets.
Learn more about us by visiting our website.
The Cardiovascular Imaging Core Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital can provide assistance with all phases of design and application of clinical trials and is equipped to manage storage and analysis of large, complex datasets. In addition, we have expert readers able to perform complex analysis on various dataset types using workstations and software from all major vendors.
Alexa, born with tetralogy of Fallot, thrives today as a nurse and marathon runner thanks to adult congenital heart disease care at Mass General Brigham.
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