Mark I Furman M.D.
Cardiologist | Cardiovascular Disease
55 Fogg Rd Cardiovascular Cente South Weymouth MA, 02190About
Dr. Mark Furman is a cardiologist practicing in South Weymouth, MA. Dr. Furman specializes in diagnosing, monitoring, and treating diseases or conditions of the heart and blood vessels and the cardiovascular system. These conditions include heart attacks, heart murmurs, coronary heart disease, and hypertension. Dr. Furman also practices preventative medicine, helping patients maintain a heart-healthy life.
Education and Training
Emory University School Of Medicine 1987
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Laboratory markers of platelet activation and their clinical significance.
- Chronic venous insufficiency is associated with increased platelet and monocyte activation and aggregation.
- Evaluation of platelet function by flow cytometry.
- Antithrombotic therapy in the cardiac catheterization laboratory: focus on antiplatelet agents.
- Ten-year trends in the incidence, treatment, and outcome of Q-wave myocardial infarction.
- Circulating monocyte-platelet aggregates are a more sensitive marker of in vivo platelet activation than platelet surface P-selectin: studies in baboons, human coronary intervention, and human acute myocardial infarction.
- Activated clotting times in the setting of eptifibatide use during percutaneous coronary intervention.
- The cleaved peptide of PAR1 is a more potent stimulant of platelet-endothelial cell adhesion than is thrombin.
- The role of platelet inhibition in the drug-eluting stent era.
- Effects of platelet binding on whole blood flow cytometry assays of monocyte and neutrophil procoagulant activity.
- Evidence that pre-existent variability in platelet response to ADP accounts for 'clopidogrel resistance'.
- Current options in platelet function testing.
- 'Postconditioning' the human heart: multiple balloon inflations during primary angioplasty may confer cardioprotection.
- Indices of platelet activation and the stability of coronary artery disease.
- Translating evidence into practice: are we neglecting the neediest?
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