Professor, Medicine, Tufts Medical Center
Cardiology
Dr. Mark S. Link, MD
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Mark S. Link is an expert in the field of Cardiology. He graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine. Tufts University School of Medicine has a rank of 49 in research and a 52 in primary care He over the years received 5 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "Boston Magazine", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Super Doctor" and "Fellow (FACC)". Mark Link has written publications. He has 99 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: '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.
Schools
Tufts University
ColumPresby
Colum Presby
New England Med Center
Procedures Preformed
- Ablation for Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias
- Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) Implantation
- Cardiac Catheterization (incl. Coronary Angiography)
- Cardiac Imaging
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Conditions Treated
- Aneurysm and Dissection of Heart
- Angina and Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Aortic Aneurysm
- Aortic Ectasia
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Doctors Specialties
- Cardiology
- Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
Accepted Insurances
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
Hospital
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Massachusetts General Hospital -
Tufts Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1891766986 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | LINK | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | MARK | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 021111526 | |
| NPPES Provider State | MA | |
| Specialty Description | Cardiac Electrophysiology | |
| Total Claim Count | 206.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1891766986 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | LINK |
| First Name Of The Provider | MARK |
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