Becker's Cardiology

For decades, cardiovascular research studied men and assumed women’s hearts worked the same way. New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health is working to change that.  Many issues in women’s heart health have been overlooked due to assuming women’s symptoms looked…

Pediatric heart transplant surgeons at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tenn., have adapted a donor heart recovery method for children, allowing them to transplant donor hearts that otherwise would not have been used.  Surgeons with the…

Arlington, Va.-based VHC Health named Brian Choi, MD, chief of heart and vascular services, effective Aug. 31. As chief, Dr. Choi will provide strategic and clinical leadership to the system’s cardiovascular programs, integrate and grow cardiovascular services, enhance patient experience…

Boston-based Mass General Brigham’s Heart and Vascular Institute is changing its approach to care, workforce relationships and research to innovate on the model inside of an academic medical center.  The institute brings together cardiology, cardiac surgery and vascular surgery, all…

The FDA approved the first heart valve designed to expand after surgery as a child grows. Autus Size-Adjustable Valve is a surgically implanted pulmonary heart valve for pediatric patients with congenital pulmonary valve disease, according to an Oct. 1 FDA…

Physicians at the Larry D. Johnson Heart & Vascular Institute at Houston-based Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center are the first to use a newly approved tissue valve for heart valve replacement. The valve, which treats aortic or mitral valve disease, has…

The Kansas State Board of Healing Arts has suspended the license of a Texas-based physician indicted in an alleged $89 million cardiovascular testing fraud scheme, KSNT reported Oct. 1. The board issued a 90-day order of immediate suspension Sept. 29…

Miami Beach, Fla.-based Mount Sinai Medical Center named Olcay Aksoy, MD, chief of cardiology. As cardiology chief, he will lead efforts to integrate and expand cardiovascular services throughout Southern Florida and grow clinical research programs, according to an Oct. 1…

Nurses are pushing back on UnityPoint Health-Finley’s decision to cut cardiac procedure lab hours, ABC affiliate KCRG reported Sept. 29. As of Sept. 14, the Dubuque, Iowa-based hospital will provide cardiac procedures between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through…

Transplanted hearts may change to match the biological age of the recipient, a new study suggests.  The study, posted on the preprint server bioRxiv, is not yet peer reviewed. Researchers from Boston-based Harvard University conducted heart transplants in mice and…