Feature Channels: Heart Disease

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Cinco de los sistemas de salud sin fines de lucro más grandes del condado de Los Ángeles incluyendo hospitales, clínicas e instalaciones en toda la región, anunciaron la campaña más reciente para su coalición bettertogether.health.

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Atlantic Health System has announced the launch of the Atlantic Health Cardiovascular Rescue and Recovery Program at Morristown Medical Center. Under the leadership of Drs. Dimitrios Karmpaliotis and Amirali Masoumi, the Cardiovascular Rescue and Recovery Program will provide advanced treatment for patients in need of complex percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) due to severe, total or multiple difficult-to-treat blockages of their coronary arteries (PCI is angioplasty with or without a stent).

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Specialized cells that conduct electricity to keep the heart beating have a previously unrecognized ability to regenerate in the days after birth, a new study in mice by UT Southwestern researchers suggests. The finding, published online in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, could eventually lead to treatments for heart rhythm disorders that avoid the need for invasive pacemakers or drugs by instead encouraging the heart to heal itself.

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Smidt Heart Institute researchers have found that taking high doses of fish oil supplements—specifically one gram or more per day—may increase the risk of developing atrial fibrillation, an abnormal heart rhythm disturbance with potentially serious complications. The new study was published today in the peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association Circulation.

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The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) will stream select abstracts from Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2021 throughout the month of October. These free sessions will be streamed on Twitter and Facebook.

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LA's five most prominent health systems remain united to save lives, pivoting resources to unveil a multi-media public service education campaign to convince those avoiding care during the pandemic to get back to their health

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Individuals who are diagnosed with high blood pressure at ages 35-44 had smaller brain size and were more likely to develop dementia compared to people who had normal blood pressure, according to new research published today in Hypertension, an American Heart Association journal.

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Promising Therapy Is Offered through Multicenter International Study

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Heart doctors at Hackensack University Medical Center were the first in northern New Jersey and the third in the state to perform Tendyne™ Transcatheter Mitral Valve Implantation (TMVI) in a patient with a leaky mitral valve in the heart. Tendyne TMVI, which is being offered through a clinical trial, may become another therapeutic option for patients who cannot have surgery or other procedures.

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The awards recognize the medical centers’ commitment to ensuring heart failure patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines founded in the latest scientific evidence.

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The Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology Research at Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center, an expert in heart rhythm abnormalities and the heart’s electrical system, presented new data about the heart and COVID-19 and other key topics at the Heart Rhythm Society 2021 Annual Scientific Sessions held in Boston, MA, July 26-30.

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Researchers from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Florida have developed a sensor that could diagnose a heart attack in less than 30 minutes, according to a study published in Lab on a Chip.

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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that high levels of a specific protein circulating in the blood accurately detect a severe type of peripheral artery disease that narrows the arteries in the legs and can raise the risk of heart attack and stroke.

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The Michigan State University researchers who created the first miniature human heart model with primary heart cell types, vascular tissue and a functioning structure of chambers have taken another step forward: developing new therapies for congenital heart disease.

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To pursue a better mechanistic understanding of ventricular arrhythmias, Johns Hopkins University researchers are turning to whole-heart computational models, which are currently witnessing an evolution of a variety of computational approaches, especially within the realm of personalized technologies. In Biophysics Reviews, they describe the progress using various computational approaches to address the mechanisms of cardiac dysfunction and issues related to the clinical application of computation-driven diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for cardiac disease and arrhythmias.