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A team at Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare's Children’s Hospital of Illinois became the first in the world to implant an extravascular implantable, cardioverter-defibrillator in a pediatric patient who had suffered sudden cardiac arrest. 

Researchers from Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham identified 21 genes associated with bradyarrhythmias, a common cardiovascular disorder often treated with pacemaker implantation, according to a study published Jan. 2 in Nature Genetics. 

Some heart failure patients with artificial hearts have been able to regenerate heart muscle, potentially paving the way for future heart failure treatment options, according to a study published Nov. 21 in Circulation. 

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Scott Baldwin, MD, will step down as chief of the division of pediatric cardiology and co-director of the Pediatric Heart Institute at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University.

New Brunswick, N.J.-based Rutgers University's Robert Wood Johnson Medical School will establish a new cardiac specialty fellowship at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital with $80,000 from Pfizer. 

When compared to virtual cardiac rehabilitation, center-based cardiac rehabilitation was associated with a 38.4% higher hospital readmission rate, according to a study published Dec. 14 in the Journal of the American Heart Association. 

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