Becker's Cardiology

San Francisco-based UCSF Health has performed its first heart transplant for a patient who received an artificial heart months earlier. The 37-year-old patient came to the system in August with advanced heart failure, according to a Feb. 11 system news…

Of the 34 physicians Nauman Mushtaq, MD, has hired in the last decade, only two have left the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital. Yet he’s recruited from University of Chicago, Brigham and Women’s, Johns Hopkins and…

The board of trustees for Novant Health, a Winston-Salem, N.C.-based system with 19 hospitals, has approved construction plans expected to cost upward of $1 billion to meet patient demand in Southeast North Carolina.  The project includes a heart and vascular…

Every heart transplant program is built for the moment when medicine reaches its edge,  when a patient’s heart can no longer be repaired, only replaced. At Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey (Pa.) Medical Center, that moment is approached with…

Columbia HeartSource, an extension of New York City-based Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s department of surgery and division of cardiology, has partnered to create an open-heart surgery accreditation program. The first-of-its-kind accreditation will set a new standard for excellence in…

New York City-based NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center has appointed three cardiac leaders. Arnar Geirsson, MD, was named chief of the division of cardiac surgery. He will lead a multidisciplinary team providing comprehensive surgical care for a full range of…

Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute has received another $50 million gift from philanthropist Neil G. Bluhm and the Bluhm Family Foundation, the organization said in a Feb. 11 news release. This gift will be used to bring new technologies…

A study conducted by researchers at New York City-based Mount Sinai found a link between influenza A viruses and cardiovascular disease. It is well known that the frequency of heart attacks increases during flu season, but there was previously little…

An artificial intelligence-augmented stethoscope more than doubled a physician’s ability to detect heart murmurs, a recent study found. The study, published Feb. 5 in European Heart Journal-Digital Health, had 357 patients older than 50 who were at risk of heart…

Murfreesboro, Tenn.-based Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford opened its Structural Heart and Valve Center Feb. 4, WGNS reported. The center will provide advanced treatments, including transcatheter aortic valve replacement, left atrial appendage closure, and other minimally invasive valve repair and replacement…