Boise, Idaho-based Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center became the first in the state to perform a Tendyne mitral valve replacement, the Daily Fly reported Dec. 7.
Cardiology
Here are 42 cardiology firsts Becker's covered in 2022:
Almost half of all adults in the U.S. have at least one form of cardiovascular disease (CVD), making it hard to find someone that hasn't been affected by the disease in one way or another.[1] The U.S. spends $225 billion…
Here are seven heart center and program openings, closings, consolidations and expansions since Nov. 16:
Columbus-based Ohio State University's Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital is the first in the world to study the clinical benefits of a device used to treat diastolic heart failure.
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NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn (N.Y.) Methodist Hospital named Sandhya Balaram, MD, PhD, chief of cardiothoracic surgery. Her hiring became effective Nov. 15.
Researchers developed a deep learning artificial intelligence model that can predict the 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease using a single X-ray.
Researchers developed a deep learning artificial intelligence model that can predict the 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease using a single X-ray.
W. Robin Howe, MD, a cardiac surgeon who performed the first open-heart surgery at Baptist Health Paducah in 1985, died last week at the age of 77, NBC affiliate WPSD reported Nov. 30.
Los Angeles-based Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai named Tyler Gunn, MD, director of the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation program in the department of cardiac surgery, Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology reported Nov. 30.