Researchers from Philadelphia-based Temple University Health System have developed an EHR-integrated tool to detect pulmonary arterial hypertension, a form of heart failure, according to a study published April 5 in the American Heart Journal. The virtual echocardiography screening tool, referred…
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Despite a “significant decrease” in the clinical risk of heart failure patients admitted to hospitals acquired by private equity firms, clinical outcomes did not improve, according to a study published June 9 in JACC. “There’s been growing concern that when…
Cleveland Clinic patients who received the Ross procedure for aortic valve replacement after 2000 have experienced better outcomes than patients who received the procedure prior to 2000, according to a 30-year longitudinal study published March 3 in the Annals of…
A Houston-based Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center team has performed a fully robotic heart transplant. The procedure marks the first fully robotic heart transplant to be performed on an adult patient in the U.S., according to a June 17 news…
Browns Mills, N.J.-based Deborah Heart and Lung Center named Geurys Rojas-Marte, MD, medical director of advanced heart failure and pulmonary hypertension programs, the hospital said in a June 14 Facebook post. Dr. Rojas-Marte practices in advanced heart failure and transplant…
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The FDA has approved a polypill as an initial treatment for hypertension in adults for the first time. Here’s what to know: 1. Widaplik — manufactured by George Medicines — is a polypill that contains telmisartan, amlodipine and indapamide. 2.…
Mineola, N.Y.-based NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island cut time from door-to-activation of the neurointerventional radiology team by 12.5 minutes, or 35.2%, for patients with strokes. The hospital asked medical residents, physician assistants and all members of the stroke team to participate…
Lehigh Valley Hospital–Muhlenberg in Bethlehem, Pa., has opened a new hybrid electrophysiology lab. Three things to know: 1. The Steve and Jeanne Follett Hybrid Electrophysiology Lab is the first in Pennsylvania to feature a new imaging system from GE Healthcare,…
Lehigh Valley Hospital–Muhlenberg in Bethlehem, Pa., has opened a new hybrid electrophysiology lab. Three things to know: 1. The Steve and Jeanne Follett Hybrid Electrophysiology Lab is the first in Pennsylvania to feature a new imaging system from GE Healthcare,…
Jeffrey Towbin, MD, will retire from serving as chief of pediatric cardiology at Memphis, Tenn.-based Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. Dr. Towbin’s retirement will also encompass his positions as executive co-director of the Heart Institute and vice chair of Pediatric for…