Tampa General Hospital launched a complex cardiothoracic surgery program at its TGH Brooksville hospital and completed its first open-heart surgery, Florida Politics reported. The procedure was a single-vessel coronary artery bypass graft with a mitral valve mass excision and an…
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Washington, D.C.-based Children’s National named Lillian Su, MD, the MacCutcheon Family Professor of Cardiac Critical Care Medicine. With this endowed professorship, Dr. Su, who also serves as chief of the Division of Cardiac Critical Care Medicine at the hospital, plans…
A new cardiac prehab program at Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix improved frailty and measures of functional capacity for heart failure patients, and allowed more patients to receive surgery who otherwise wouldn’t have qualified. Many decompensated heart failure patients are in…
Naples, Fla.-based NCH Rooney Heart Institute is the first to use a new technology that makes blood glow green during heart bypass surgery, ABC affiliate Gulf Coast News Now reported Aug. 24. The process involves injecting harmless dye into the…
U.S. News and World Report rated 517 hospitals high performing for heart attack care. U.S. News evaluated about 4,500 hospitals on how well they treated heart attack patients by analyzing patient survival rates, recovery at home, number of patients treated…
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Tampa General Hospital Brooksville (Fla.) completed its first cardiothoracic surgical procedure. The surgery included single-vessel coronary artery bypass graft, mitral valve repair and atrial appendage clipping, according to an Aug. 24 news release from Tampa General Hospital. The new program…
About 60% of cardiologists’ overall happiness stayed the same year-over-year, according to a new report from Medscape. The report, “Following Their Own Advice: Medscape Cardiologist Mental Health Report 2026,” published Aug. 21, surveyed 5,159 full-time physicians practicing in the U.S.…
Charlottesville, Va.-based UVA Health has launched Virginia’s first robotic heart surgery program, according to an Aug. 19 report from WVIR. Cardiac surgeon Michael Ibrahim, MD, serves as director of the program. The program’s team performed the first hybrid robotic ablation…
Surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) was associated with better long-term survival and fewer complications than transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in patients ages 60 and younger, according to a study published Aug. 19 in JTCVS Open. Here are six things…
Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute has opened a new location in Tinley Park, Ill. The new clinic offers echocardiograms, supervised stress testing and heart monitoring, designed to support earlier diagnosis, risk assessment and coordinated care for patients with cardiovascular concerns,…