Dr. Farouc Jaffer, MD

• Cardiology

• Interventional Cardiology

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• Massachusetts General Hospital

  Fellowship Hospital

• Brigham And Womens Hospital

  Internship Hospital, 1997

• Molecular Imaging of Atherosclerosis: A Clinical Focus, 2017-02-04

• Cardiovascular Mortality and Exposure to Heat in an Inherently Hot Region: Implications for Climate Change, 2020-03-30

• Dual modality intravascular optical coherence tomography (OCT) and near-infrared fluorescence (NIRF) imaging: a fully automated algorithm for the distance-calibration of NIRF signal intensity for quantitative molecular imaging, 2014-10-24

• Near Infrared Fluorescence (NIRF) Molecular Imaging of Oxidized LDL with an Autoantibody in Experimental Atherosclerosis, 2016-02-25

• High-Resolution Molecular Imaging Via Intravital Microscopy: Illuminating Vascular BiologyIn Vivo, 2012-11-27

• Intravascular Molecular Imaging: Near-Infrared Fluorescence as a New Frontier, 2020-11-23

• FDG-PET/CT Enables the Detection of Recurrent Same-Site Deep Vein Thrombosis by Illuminating Recently Formed, Neutrophil-Rich Thrombus, 2014-07-28

• The Year in Molecular Imaging, 2016-03-11

• Intravital microscopy in atherosclerosis research, 2022-03-28

• Imaging high-risk atherothrombosis using a novel fibrin-binding positron emission tomography probe, 2021-12-30

• Endotoxaemia-augmented murine venous thrombosis is dependent on TLR-4 and ICAM-1, and potentiated by neutropenia*, 2016-12-15

• Intravascular NIRF Molecular Imaging Approaches in Coronary Artery Disease, 2016-03-07

• Intravascular multispectral optoacoustic tomography of atherosclerosis: prospects and challenges, 2012-10-17

• Imaging and Nanomedicine in Inflammatory Atherosclerosis, 2014-06-04

• Near-Infrared Autofluorescence (NIRAF) in Atherosclerosis Associates with Ceroid and is Generated by Oxidized Lipid-induced Oxidative Stress, 2021-05-20

• In VivoPlatelet Detection Using a Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa-Targeted Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging Probe, 2021-05-31

• Intravascular molecular-structural imaging with a miniaturized integrated near-infrared fluorescence and ultrasound catheter, 2021-07-20

• Molecular intravascular imaging approaches for atherosclerosis, 2014-08-12

• Intra-arterial catheter for simultaneous microstructural and molecular imagingin vivo, 2011-11-06

• Gram-Negative Pneumonia Alters Large-Vein Cell-Adhesion Molecule Profile and Potentiates Experimental Stasis Venous Thrombosis, 2016-10-22

• High-resolution Optical Mapping of Inflammatory Macrophages Following Endovascular Arterial Injury, 2013-03-18

• Effect of Prior Failure on Subsequent Procedural Outcomes of Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (From a Contemporary Multicenter Registry), 2016-01-28

• Intravascular Fluorescence Molecular Imaging of Atherosclerosis, 2022-04-01

• Clinical and intracoronary evaluation of indocyanine green for targeted near-infrared fluorescence imaging of atherosclerosis, 2016-08-17

• FDG-PET/CT imaging predicts vein wall scarring and statin benefit in murine venous thrombosis, 2021-03-16

• Inflammation and neovascularization intertwined in atherosclerosis: Imaging of structural and molecular imaging targets, 2014-08-26

• Ly6CLoMonocyte/Macrophages are Essential for Thrombus Resolution in a Murine Model of Venous Thrombosis, 2019-12-30

• Experimental venous thrombus resolution is driven by IL-6 mediated monocyte actions, 2023-02-24

• Intravital Fluorescence Microscopic Molecular Imaging of Atherosclerosis, 2011-02-09

• An HDAC9-MALAT1-BRG1 complex mediates smooth muscle dysfunction in thoracic aortic aneurysm, 2018-03-08

• A Light-activated Theranostic Nanoagent for Targeted Macrophage Ablation in Inflammatory Atherosclerosis, 2010-09-20

• Endothelial PGC-1a Mediates Vascular Dysfunction in Diabetes, 2014-02-04

• Understudied factors in drug-coated balloon design and evaluation: A biophysical perspective, 2022-07-07

• The Year in Molecular Imaging, 2011-02-09

• Imaging Atherosclerosis and Risk of Plaque Rupture, 2013-10-17

• Coronary Artery Spatial Distribution of Chronic Total Occlusions: Insights from a Large US Registry, 2016-11-10

• Molecular imaging of macrophage protease activity in cardiovascular inflammationin vivo, 2011-01-12

• Intravascular Molecular-Structural Assessment of Arterial Inflammation in Preclinical Atherosclerosis Progression, 2021-08-18

• Pioglitazone Suppresses Inflammation In Vivo In Murine Carotid Atherosclerosis: Novel Detection by Dual-Target Fluorescence Molecular Imaging, 2010-08-05

• First-In-Human Dual-Modality OCT and Near-Infrared Autofluorescence Imaging of Coronary Artery Disease, 2016-03-09

• Atheroma Susceptible to Thrombosis Exhibit Impaired Endothelial Permeability In Vivo as Assessed by Nanoparticle-Based Fluorescence Molecular Imaging, 2017-05-10

• 3D cellular-resolution imaging in arteries using few-mode interferometry, 2019-11-21

• Histopathological correlation of near infrared autofluorescence in human cadaver coronary arteries, 2022-01-29

• Use of Antegrade Dissection Re-entry in Coronary Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in a Contemporary Multicenter Registry, 2016-04-06

• Practical cardiovascular risk calculator for asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: PRECISE-DM risk score, 2020-07-13

• Accounting for blood attenuation in intravascular near-infrared fluorescence-ultrasound imaging using a fluorophore-coated guidewire, 2023-04-05

• Multimodal Nanoagents for the Detection of Intravascular Thrombi, 2009-07-14

• Intravascular Optical Imaging Technology for Investigating the Coronary Artery, 2012-09-01

• Molecular imaging of fibrin deposition in deep vein thrombosis using a new fibrin-targeted near-infrared fluorescence (NIRF) imaging strategy, 2012-05-24

• Impact of lesion age on outcomes of chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention: Insights from a contemporary US multicenter registry, 2016-04-22

• The Advancing Clinical Impact of Molecular Imaging in Cardiovascular Disease, 2013-12-24

• Multifunctional nanoagent for thrombus-targeted fibrinolytic therapy, 2012-02-21

• Real-time Catheter Molecular Sensing of Inflammation in Proteolytically Active Atherosclerosis, 2008-10-13

• Predictors of Excess Patient Radiation Exposure During Chronic Total Occlusion Coronary Intervention: Insights from a Contemporary Multicenter Registry, 2016-11-11

• Statins Improve the Resolution of Established Murine Venous Thrombosis: Reductions in Thrombus Burden and Vein Wall Scarring, 2015-02-13

• Angiographic Features and Clinical Outcomes of Balloon Uncrossable Lesions during Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, 2023-03-13

• The Year in Molecular Imaging, 2012-10-19

• Two-Dimensional Intravascular Near-Infrared Fluorescence Molecular Imaging of Inflammation in Atherosclerosis and Stent-Induced Vascular Injury, 2011-06-21

• Noninvasive Fractional Flow Reserve Derived From Coronary CT Angiography (FFRCT): Management and Outcomes in the PROMISE Trial, 2017-04-12

• Editorial: Advances in Intravascular Imaging, 2021-09-16

• Clinical Utility of the J-CTO Score in Coronary Chronic Total Occlusion Interventions: Results from a Multicenter Registry, 2015-06-26

• In Vivo Nanoparticle Assessment of Pathological Endothelium Predicts the Development of Inflow Stenosis in Murine Arteriovenous Fistula, 2014-11-13

• Time-restricted salutary effects of blood flow restoration on venous thrombosis and vein wall injury in mouse and human subjects, 2021-01-15

• 18F-FDG PET Imaging of Atherosclerosis-A New Approach to Detect Inflamed, High-Risk Coronary Plaques?, 2011-01-24

• Inflammation Modulates Murine Venous Thrombosis ResolutionIn Vivo: Assessment by Multimodal Fluorescence Molecular Imaging, 2012-09-20

• CYP2C19genotyping in anticoagulated patients post-percutaneous coronary intervention: should it be routine?, 2022-03-07

• Outcomes with Use of the Retrograde Approach for Coronary Chronic Total Occlusion Interventions in a Contemporary Multicenter US Registry, 2016-06-02

• Indocyanine Green Enables Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging of Lipid-Rich, Inflamed Atherosclerotic Plaques, 2011-05-25

• The role of nanomedicine in the imaging and therapy of thrombosis, 2012-04-05

• Imaging inflammation and neovascularization in atherosclerosis: clinical and translational molecular and structural imaging targets, 2015-10-19

• Advances in Molecular Imaging of Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease, 2014-03-26

• Improving quantification of intravascular fluorescence imaging using structural information, 2012-09-21

• Prevalence, Presentation and Treatment of ‘Balloon Undilatable' Chronic Total Occlusions: Insights from a Multicenter US Registry, 2018-01-23