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Cedars-Sinai Patient Receives Rare Triple Organ Transplant

Single Father Valance Sams Sr. Is Getting Back to Doing What He Loves After Getting a New Heart, Liver and Kidney in a 20-Hour Surgery

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Fetal Cardiology Expert Joins Cedars-Sinai

Pediatric cardiologist Jay Pruetz, MD, has joined Cedars-Sinai as director of Fetal Cardiology and associate director of the Pediatric Congenital Heart Program at Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s and the Smidt Heart Institute.

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Kawasaki Disease: Blocking Protein Improves Cardiac Effects, Investigators Report

A new study by Cedars-Sinai investigators found that blocking a protein called interleukin-1-beta improved cardiac dysfunction and arrythmias in Kawasaki disease, a rare illness that affects children and causes their blood vessels to swell and become inflamed.

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Patients Diagnosed With New-Onset, Persistent AFib Are More Likely to Have These Risk Factors

Patients who present with persistent atrial fibrillation at diagnosis are more likely to have certain risk factors as compared with patients with occasional atrial fibrillation (AFib). The findings, led by investigators in the Smidt Heart ...

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New Studies: AI Captures Electrocardiogram Patterns That Could Signal a Future Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Two new studies by Cedars-Sinai investigators support using artificial intelligence (AI) to predict sudden cardiac arrest—a health emergency that in 90% of cases leads to death within minutes.

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Smidt Heart Institute Physicians Advance Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement

Physicians in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai have achieved two significant firsts: completing the institute’s 100th minimally invasive tricuspid valve replacement and performing the first-ever implantation of a new bioprosthetic ...

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Top-Ranked Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai Releases 2024 Annual Report

The Smidt Heart Institute continues to break new ground in cardiovascular research and care. It is a global leader in heart transplants, women's heart disease, targeted therapies, and a suite of minimally invasive procedures.

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Vascular Disorders

From minimally invasive carotid artery stents to the most complex aortic and limb-preservation procedures, the Vascular Surgery division at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai offers robust, collaborative care backed by the latest ...

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Aortic Diseases

Care at the Smidt Heart Institute doesn’t stop at the heart. Our experts routinely manage cases ranging from acute dissections to chronic aneurysms of the aorta.