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RWJBarnabas hospital celebrates longest-living patient with LVAD heart pump
Newark (N.J.) Beth Israel Medical Center celebrated the longest-living patient in the state on a left ventricular assist device May 18. -
AHA updates ambulatory blood pressure guidance
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring classifications and regulations for children and adolescents have been simplified in new guidance from the American Heart Association. -
Biofourmis Selected by American College of Cardiology as Exclusive Virtual Care Platform to Drive TRANSFORM3 Study Focused on Closing Practice Gaps for Heart Conditions
Biofourmis Care, a comprehensive care management platform including virtual multidisciplinary care teams, to be evaluated against in-person care among underserved patients with chronic cardiovascular conditions -
Using Price Transparency and Medication History Tools to Reduce Prescription Abandonment and Improve Medication Adherence
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Children's Hospital Colorado cardiologists 1st to implant new stent
Children's Hospital Colorado recently became the first in the world to implant the newly FDA-approved G-Armor Stent. -
Cleveland heart center uses novel solution amid imaging dye shortage
Cleveland-based University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute recently became the first to report using cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging on a minimally invasive procedure amid the imaging dye shortage. -
Compression socks, some meds not effective hemorrhage treatments: AHA
Compression socks or stockings, anti-seizure medicines and steroids are among treatments with uncertain effectiveness in treating intracerebral hemorrhages, or bleeding strokes, according to new guidelines from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. -
35 top hospitals for cardiac surgery: Healthgrades
Healthgrades released its State Hospitals Rankings List May 10, which includes the top hospitals for cardiac surgery. -
Cleveland Clinic: Pediatric heart failure burden grows
Pediatric heart failure emergency department visits and primary heart failure hospitalizations rose dramatically between 2012 and 2016, according to a new study led by researchers at Cleveland Clinic. -
Pig virus may have contributed to pig heart transplant patient's death
Cytomegalovirus, a common virus among pigs, may have been one of several factors in the death of the patient who received the first genetically modified heart, USAToday reported May 5. -
MedStar Washington performs region's 1st robotic heart surgery
Washington, D.C.-based MedStar Washington Hospital Center recently performed the first robotic mitral valve surgery in the region. -
Hackensack Meridian reports 1st TAVR procedure using CT imaging
Cardiologists from Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian reported what is believed to be the first patient with heart failure and a blood clot to undergo a minimally invasive transcatheter aortic valve replacement using computed tomography fusion imaging. -
Cone Health to expand heart and vascular care center
Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health plans to create and renovate more than 260,000 square feet of its heart and vascular facilities, it said May 4. -
4 cardiologists on the move
Four cardiologists who have recently stepped into new roles: -
Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital surgeons perform novel occluder procedure
Surgeons at Hollywood, Fla.-based Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital recently treated a patient with an opening defect in the wall of their heart using the first nonmetallic-framed transcatheter occluder. -
Colquitt Regional 1st in Georgia to offer new heart scanner
Moultrie, Ga.-based Colquitt Regional Medical Center recently became the first in the state to offer patients the MyoSPECT, a new single-photon emission computerized tomography device, The Moultrie Observer reported May 2. -
Top 10 cardiology stories in April
Here are the top 10 cardiology stories Becker's covered in April: -
6 recent 1sts in cardiology
Six firsts in the cardiology field Becker's has covered since March 21: -
Dr. Morton Mower, co-inventor of implantable defibrillator, dies at 89
Morton Mower, MD, a pioneering cardiologist who was the co-inventor of the automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator, died of cancer at 89 on April 25, The Baltimore Sun reported April 30. -
North Carolina hospital to open heart clinic
Boone, N.C.-based Appalachian Regional Healthcare System plans to open a heart and vascular clinic May 3 at Ashe Memorial Hospital in Jefferson, N.C.
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