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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Non-Hispanic Black mothers have a 3.4 times higher risk of developing peripartum cardiomyopathy compared to non-Hispanic white mothers, even after adjusting for socioeconomic risk factors and social determinants of health, according to a study published Feb. 25 in the Journal…
From national recognition to the world's tiniest pacemaker, here are five cardiologists and cardiology teams who have made headlines in 2025:
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.
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Orange, Calif.-based Children’s Hospital of Orange County has opened a new cardiovascular intensive care unit.
Naples (Fla.) Comprehensive Health has named Thomas Caranasos, MD, vice president of the NCH Rooney Heart Institute.
New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health has received approval from the state health department to open a heart transplant center at Cohen Children's Medical Center in Queens.
An international task force has developed standards for tracking outcome measures of patients with heart valve disease, a condition which is expected to double in prevalence by 2040. The standards were published Feb. 17 in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes.
An AI-powered patient screening tool helped heart failure researchers at Mass General Brigham cut down on the time required to screen patients for clinical trial eligibility, according to a study published Feb. 17 in JAMA.