'I get to love you with two hearts now': Mom thriving after complex double-organ transplant
Shortly after she was born, Laura Valentine turned blue.
Jun 12, 2025
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Surgical Procedures, Operative: News and Research on Cardiac Surgical Procedures
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Surgical ablation during coronary artery bypass grafting by linked to improved survival in patients
A new study published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery,, finds that Medicare patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) who undergo surgical ablation during isolated coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) live longer than those ...
Jun 4, 2025
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Emergency surgery costs disproportionately burden underrepresented racial and ethnic groups
A new nationwide study reveals that Black, Hispanic, and Asian/Pacific Islander patients face significantly higher costs when undergoing emergency surgeries compared to white patients, with the financial burden of unplanned ...
Jun 2, 2025
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Trump administration cuts funding for life-saving baby heart device
A Cornell University project to save babies born with serious heart defects has lost key funding just days after it was approved.
May 12, 2025
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FDA approves SAPIEN 3 platform for asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Edwards Lifesciences' SAPIEN 3 platform, a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) therapy, for patients with severe aortic stenosis without symptoms. The approval ...
May 6, 2025
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Early transcatheter aortic valve replacement reduces cardiovascular events in asymptomatic aortic stenosis patients
New analysis from the EARLY TAVR trial showed patients between the age of 65 and 70 years old derived the most benefits of a strategy of early intervention with transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) compared to other ...
May 2, 2025
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Experts report urgent need for pediatric heart support devices
At today's Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) in Boston, Angela Lorts, MD, MBA, issued an urgent call for improved mechanical circulatory support ...
Apr 27, 2025
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Donor hearts are traveling longer distances with machine perfusion
In places like Australia, where metropolitan areas are separated by an entire continent, donor hearts used to go unused simply because transplant teams couldn't get the organ to a recipient in time.
Apr 27, 2025
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Study finds no direct link between heavy alcohol use and dilated cardiomyopathy
A new study led by researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine found that heavy alcohol use does not directly cause dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), an inherited heart muscle disease.
Apr 25, 2025
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Past patient outcomes could help single-ventricle surgery decisions
When considering whether a child who has a single-ventricle heart defect would benefit more from biventricular repair or the Fontan procedure, heart specialists have lacked a key tool to guide them: data that shows possible ...
Apr 15, 2025
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