A team from Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health has performed the world's first living mitral valve replacement after a heart transplant patient donated healthy valves from their original heart to two other patients.
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Researchers from Atlanta-based Georgia Tech have developed a 3D-printed, bioresorbable heart valve that promotes tissue regeneration within the heart.
Dual-antiplatelet therapy is more effective than aspirin monotherapy at preventing sudden cardiac death after coronary artery bypass graft surgery, according to a study published Feb. 25 in PLOS One.
Corticosteroid use may increase pericarditis recurrence in lupus patients, according to a study published Feb. 25 in JAMA Network Open.
A team at Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine's Heart and Vascular Institute have performed the first transcatheter tricuspid valve replacements in the state and region.
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Jacksonville, Fla.-based Nemours Children's Health has named Aaron Eckhauser, MD, chief of cardiothoracic surgery, chair of cardiovascular medicine and executive director of the Nemours Children's Cardiac Center in Wilmington, Del.
Of the 70 Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals in the U.S. who reported prescribing statin medication to patients at discharge, only nine did so for 100% of eligible patients in 2023, according to CMS data published Feb. 19.
Orange, Calif.-based Children’s Hospital of Orange County has opened a new cardiovascular intensive care unit.