Cardiology

Atlantic Health System’s Morristown (N.J.) Medical Center announced Nov. 16 the enrollment of the first patient into the Progress clinical trial, which may change the standard of care for aortic stenosis. 

Children’s Hospital of Richmond (Va.) at VCU and UVA Children’s in Charlottesville, Va., announced Nov. 17 a regional collaboration to ensure convenient access to pediatric heart surgery. 

Death from a heart attack or stroke may be the first cardiovascular disease event in some people who smoke cigarettes, a study published Nov. 17 in the Journal of the American Heart Association found. 

A Cleveland Clinic-developed protocol significantly improved the chances of in-hospital survival among patients who experience the most severe type of heart attack, regardless of socioeconomic factors, according to a Nov. 15 Cleveland Clinic press release. 

Eighty-six percent of patients with symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a condition in which the heart’s ability to pump blood is impeded by a thickened heart muscle, reported an improved overall quality of life after undergoing septal myectomy, a type of…

Chicago-based Loyola Medicine is the first in Illinois to use a new cardiac transport system to complete a heart transplant, the academic health system said Nov. 12.

Edgewood, Ky.-based St. Elizabeth Healthcare opened a 67,000-square-foot facility to provide advanced heart care Nov. 8. 

Below are six cardiologists who recently joined new practices or stepped into new roles. 

Bedtime from 10-11 p.m. is associated with a lower risk of developing heart disease, according to a study published Nov. 8 in European Heart Journal - Digital Health.

Recent cardiology studies have focused on the rise of broken heart syndrome, discrimination in the cardiology field and more.