Professor, Medicine, Tufts Medical Center
Cardiology
Dr. Mark R. Link, DDS
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Mark Link is an expert in the field of Cardiology. He went to medical school at Tufts University School of Medicine. Tufts University School of Medicine is ranked 49 in research and 52 in primary care medicine He received awards:"America's Top Doctors", "Boston Magazine", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Super Doctor" and "Fellow (FACC)". Mark Link is also published. He has 99 publications published. The lastest publication: "Drier Air, Lower Temperatures, and Triggering of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation.'
Publications
- Drier Air, Lower Temperatures, and Triggering of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation.
- B-type natriuretic peptide is a major predictor of ventricular tachyarrhythmias.
- Ventricular Arrhythmias in the North American Multidisciplinary Study of ARVC: Predictors, Characteristics, and Treatment.
- Pathophysiology, prevention, and treatment of commotio cordis.
- Implantable Defibrillators in Long QT Syndrome, Brugada Syndrome, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, and Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy.
- Weather and triggering of ventricular arrhythmias in patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators.
- Acute exposure to air pollution triggers atrial fibrillation.
- Safety of sports for athletes with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: results of a prospective, multinational registry.
- Prevention of sudden cardiac death with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in children and adolescents with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
- Prediction and prevention of sudden death in young populations: the role of ECG screening.
- Ventricular tachycardia/fibrillation early after defibrillator implantation in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is explained by a high-risk subgroup of patients.
- Increasing survival rate from commotio cordis.
- ICD Oversensing Caused by TASER.
- Significance of False Negative Electrocardiograms in Preparticipation Screening of Athletes for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.
- 2011 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Associa...
- 2011 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Executive Summary A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/Ame...
- To Compress or Not to Compress; That Is the Question.
- Racial Differences in Sudden Cardiac Death: Translation into Practice.
- 2011 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/Am...
- 2011 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Associ...
- Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Reduces Left Atrial Volume and the Risk of Atrial Tachyarrhythmias in MADIT-CRT (Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Tri...
- Sudden cardiac death in young athletes and nonathletes.
- New Paradigms in the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Heart Failure Treatment.
- Global Epidemiology and Demographics of Commotio Cordis.
- Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship Curriculum: Update 2011.
- Reduced Diameter Spheres Increases the Risk of Chest Blow - Induced Ventricular Fibrillation (Commotio Cordis).
- Successful Therapeutic Hypothermia in Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.
- Acquired long QT syndrome from stress cardiomyopathy is associated with ventricular arrhythmias and torsades de pointes.
- The use of antiarrhythmic drugs for adult cardiac arrest: A systematic review.
- Incidence and Significance of Pacemaker and Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Lead Masses Discovered during Transesophageal Echocardiography.
- Marked variability in susceptibility to ventricular fibrillation in an experimental commotio cordis model.
- Part 8: adult advanced cardiovascular life support: 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care.
- Part 6: electrical therapies: automated external defibrillators, defibrillation, cardioversion, and pacing: 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmon...
- Part 1: executive summary: 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care.
- Athletes and arrhythmias.
- Early repolarization associated with ventricular arrhythmias in patients with chronic coronary artery Disease.
- Prophylactic implantable defibrillator in patients with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia and no prior ventricular fibrillation or sustained ve...
- Air pollution and the triggering of cardiac arrhythmias.
- Relation of 12-lead electrocardiogram patterns to implanted defibrillator-terminated ventricular tachyarrhythmias in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
- Precordial thump for cardiac arrest is effective for asystole but not for ventricular fibrillation.
- What is the "Blanking Period"?
- Utility of cardiovascular magnetic resonance in the diagnosis of Anderson-Fabry Disease.
- Commotio cordis and the epidemiology of sudden death in competitive lacrosse.
- Circadian patterns in the occurrence of malignant ventricular tachyarrhythmias triggering defibrillator interventions in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
- Cell membrane stretch and chest blow-induced ventricular fibrillation: commotio cordis.
- Short QT syndrome review.
- Advances in mechanisms of atrial fibrillation: structural remodeling, high-frequency fractionated electrograms, and reentrant AF drivers.
- Endocardial mapping of ventricular fibrillation in commotio cordis.
- Protecting our children from the consequences of chest blows on the playing field: a time for science over marketing.
- Time-dependence of appropriate implantable defibrillator therapy in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy.
- Sudden cardiac death in athletes.
- Cardiac safety of electrical stun guns: letting science and reason advance the debate.
- Accentuation of pacing induced electrical dyssynchrony by preexisting conduction system Disease and left ventricular dysfunction.
- Parasympathetic response in chick myocytes and mouse heart is controlled by SREBP.
- How to manage athletes with syncope.
- Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and prevention of sudden cardiac death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
- Mechanically induced ventricular fibrillation (commotio cordis).
- Evaluation of chest barriers for protection against sudden death due to commotio cordis.
- Inter-association task force recommendations on emergency preparedness and management of sudden cardiac arrest in high school and college athletic programs: a consensu...
- Commotio cordis--sudden cardiac death with chest wall impact.
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is predominantly a Disease of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction.
- Unraveling the mystery of commotio cordis.
- Treatment of athletes with cardiac Disease or arrhythmias.
- Resuscitation in athletes: a sobering tale.
- Historical observation on commotio cordis.
- Equivalent arrhythmic risk in patients recently diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy compared with patients diagnosed for 9 months or more.
- Failure of commercially available chest wall protectors to prevent sudden cardiac death induced by chest wall blows in an experimental model of commotio cordis.
- Cryoablation of the pulmonary veins using a novel balloon catheter.
- High risk of ventricular arrhythmias in patients with nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy presenting with syncope.
- Increased risk of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation episodes associated with acute increases in ambient air pollution.
- Atrioventricular nodal reverse facilitation in connexin40-deficient mice.
- Cardiovascular toxicities of performance-enhancing substances in sports.
- Death in a young athlete due to commotio cordis despite prompt external defibrillation.
- Gender-related differences in the clinical presentation and outcome of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
- Significance and relation between magnitude of left ventricular hypertrophy and heart failure symptoms in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
- Association of air pollution with increased incidence of ventricular tachyarrhythmias recorded by implanted cardioverter defibrillators.
- Particulate air pollution and nonfatal cardiac events. Part II. Association of air pollution with confirmed arrhythmias recorded by implanted defibrillators.
- Task Force 11: commotio cordis.
- Task Force 10: automated external defibrillators.
- Role of streptomycin-sensitive stretch-activated channel in chest wall impact induced sudden death (commotio cordis).
- Echocardiographic evidence of left atrial abnormality in young patients with lone paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.
- Enalapril treatment and hospitalization with atrial tachyarrhythmias in patients with left ventricular dysfunction.
- Comparison of survival and other complications after heart transplantation in patients taking amiodarone before surgery versus those not taking amiodarone.
- Syncope in the patient with nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy.
- Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy for prevention of sudden death in patients with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia.
- Frequent ICD shocks due to double sensing in patients with bi-ventricular implantable cardioverter defibrillators.
- Durability of repaired sensing leads equivalent to that of new leads in implantable cardioverter defibrillator patients with sensing abnormalities.
- Clinical results with catheter ablation: AV junction, atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia.
- Herbal medicine: beneficial effects, side effects, and promising new research in the treatment of arrhythmias.
- Primary prevention of sudden death as a novel treatment strategy in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
- Use of antiarrhythmics and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in congestive heart failure.
- Evidence that nonsustained polymorphic ventricular tachycardia causes syncope (data from implantable cardioverter defibrillators).
- Testing of a new T-wave subtraction algorithm as an aid to localizing ectopic atrial beats.
- Upper and lower limits of vulnerability to sudden arrhythmic death with chest-wall impact (commotio cordis).
- Use of the AutoCapture Pacing System with implantable defibrillator leads.
- Automated external defibrillator arrhythmia detection in a model of cardiac arrest due to commotio cordis.
- Inducible ventricular flutter and fibrillation predict for arrhythmia occurrence in coronary artery Disease patients presenting with syncope of unknown origin.
- Assessment of risk for sudden cardiac death.
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University Of Illinois
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Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Boston Magazine
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Super Doctor
- Fellow (FACC)
Education
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Tufts Medical Center -
New York Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia Campus -
Tufts University School of Medicine
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Tufts Medical Center -
Massachusetts General Hospital
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