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The Evolution of Mitral Valve Repair with Dr. Joanna Chikwe | Pioneers in Medicine
In this episode of “Pioneers in Medicine” Joanna Chikwe, MD, chair of cardiac surgery, walks through some of the differences she has noticed in cardiac care between the United Kingdom and the United States
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Sending Stem Cells Into Space to Develop Medicine of Tomorrow
Scientists from Cedars-Sinai are gearing up to send stem cells into space to test whether it is possible to produce large batches in zero gravity for use in treating a variety of diseases back on Earth.
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Cardiac Rhythm Disorders & Advanced Therapeutic Program for Ventricular Tachycardia
Catheter ablation of the heart is a process whereby small tubes fitted with electrical wiring and special metal tips deliver radiofrequency (heating) or cryo (freezing) energy to areas of interest in the heart muscle in various chambers.
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Cedars-Sinai's First Minimally Invasive Double Lung Transplant
Last September, Frank Coburn took what he thought would be the last motorcycle ride of his life. Six months prior, at age 57, the previously active biker and boat mechanic was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis after years of declining health.
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Cedars-Sinai Leads the Way with First-In-Human Experience of Promising Transcatheter Mitral Valve Therapy
Over the past decade, the interventional cardiologists at Cedars-Sinai have led developments in transcatheter therapies for heart valve disease and have the greatest experience within the United States in treating both the mitral and the aortic valve. This experience makes our team ideally suited to lead future advances with new technologies to improve outcomes.
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Cedars-Sinai Leads the Way with First-In-Human Experience of Promising Transcatheter Mitral Valve Therapy
Over the past decade, the interventional cardiologists at Cedars-Sinai have led developments in transcatheter therapies for heart valve disease and have the greatest experience within the United States in treating both the mitral and the aortic valve. This experience makes our team ideally suited to lead future advances with new technologies to improve outcomes.
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Trento Wins Pioneer in Medicine Award
For his accomplishments, Alfredo Trento, MD, has been named the winner of Cedars-Sinai's Pioneer in Medicine Award for 2021.
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Is It a Heart Attack? Or Could It Be an Aortic Dissection?
During Aortic Dissection Awareness Week, Smidt Heart Institute Surgeons Hope to Raise Awareness of the Life-Threatening Condition
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Cedars-Sinai Nurse Shares Congenital Heart Journey
Jacqueline Avalon was born with a #CongenitalHeartDefect known as #VentricularSeptalDefect, which means there was a hole on the septal wall that separates the two ventricles of the heart. She's now a nurse at Cedars-Sinai. Hear more about her journey.
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Clinical Fellows Award Comes From the Heart
Improving outcomes for heart disease patients was the focus of studies by Jae Hyung Cho, MD, PhD, and Lily K. Stern, MD, who in May won the 2021 Cedars-Sinai Clinical Fellows Award for Excellence in Research.
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Innovative Surgeon to Lead Congenital Heart Surgery Team
Richard Kim, MD, Joins the Smidt Heart Institute to Offer the Full Spectrum of Congenital Cardiac Care to Patients from Birth into Late Adulthood
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‘Heart in a Box’ Expands Transplant Opportunities
The Smidt Heart Institute, Home of the Nation's No. 1 Adult Heart Transplant Program, Uses Transmedics Organ Care System (OCS) to Grow Geographic Area of Service, Enabling More Lifesaving Organ Transplants
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