Cardiology

The Piedmont Heart Institute, part of Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare, hired nine cardiovascular specialists this year, the health system said Dec. 13. 

A round-up of the nation's best hospitals for heart care was Becker's most-read cardiology story in 2021. 

Surgeons at California-based Stanford Children's Health recently performed the organization's 500th pediatric heart transplant.

Gender, race and ethnicity should not be factors for cardiologists deciding whether invasive heart procedures should be performed on patients, according to a new guideline issued Dec. 9  from the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology. 

Austin, Texas-based St. David’s Medical Center physicians were among the first in the U.S. to implant the Barostim System, a new neurostimulator technology used to help treat advanced heart failure, the hospital said Dec. 9.

Since the start of 2021, hospitals and health systems across the U.S. have performed many novel cardiology procedures.

Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center in Berks County, Pa., announced a new electrophysiology laboratory opened Dec. 7 to treat patients with cardiac rhythm disturbances. 

The American College of Cardiology named Ami Bhatt, MD, as chief innovation officer, the organization said Dec. 7. 

The American College of Cardiology named Ami Bhatt, MD, as chief innovation officer, the organization said Dec. 7. 

Cases of post-COVID-19 vaccine myocarditis, swelling of the heart muscle, in people under 21 are rare and usually mild, a study published Dec. 6 in Circulation confirmed.