Category Archives: Cardiovascular

MELBOURNE, Australia — Scientists are now one step closer to engineering their own healthy blood vessels. Researchers from the University of Melbourne have pioneered a method to produce blood vessels using a combination of various materials and fabrication techniques. Their innovative approach aims to mimic the complex geometries of natural blood vessels and paves the way […]

Since the introduction of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), they have steadily become the mainstay in treating acid-related disorders. The adoption of PPI use has been widespread among primary care providers, and their presence is ubiquitous within the armamentarium of the modern gastroenterologist.[1] Despite an apparent excellent safety profile throughout their first two decades of use, […]

New research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association finds that the impacts of obesity on heart disease have increased. The analysis found that between 1999 and 2020, obesity-related deaths from cardiovascular disease increased threefold. The research also found Black individuals had higher mortality rates than any other racial group in the study. Mortality rates […]

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Hoping to evaluate the effectiveness of these new definitions, Avvedimento et al. used them to categorize a real-world TAVR population of patients who underwent the procedure at their own facility. The researchers evaluated data from more than 2,300 patients treated from 2007 to 2022. Nearly 32% experienced an early or late bleeding event following TAVR. […]

4 Min Read •Heart Health Dr. Arnar Geirsson, a pioneer in minimally invasive and robotic cardiac surgical procedures, has been appointed director of the Cardiovascular Institute and Surgical Heart Valve Program at NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia University Irving Medical Center, effective Sept. 1. He will also serve as professor of surgery in the Division of Cardiac, […]

September 7, 2023 —Jessica Faulkner, PhD, a physiologist whose research is focused on sex differences in cardiovascular disease at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, is the recipient of the Harry Goldblatt Award for New Investigators from the American Heart Association’s 2023 Hypertension Council. She will be honored at the Hypertension Scientific Sessions in Boston this week.  […]

September 7, 2023 – Joseph McGinn III, M.D., joins Baptist Health as a cardiovascular surgeon, specializing in adult cardiac surgery. “It’s an honor to welcome Dr. McGinn to our Baptist Health team,” said Dr. Marc Gibber, M.D., medical director and chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Bethesda Hospital East. “Dedicated to providing safe, efficacious cardiac procedures, he […]

The treadmill exercise test with electrocardiogram (ECG), also known as an exercise stress test, is one of the most familiar tests in medicine. While exercise testing typically is focused on diagnosing coronary artery disease, a recent study from Mayo Clinic finds that exercise test abnormalities, such as low functional aerobic capacity, predicted non-cardiovascular causes of […]