Cedars-Sinai Newsroom (Cardiac Surgery Research)
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2023
December
18,
2023
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06:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai has opened an Aortic Surveillance Clinic for the evaluation and long-term monitoring of patients with enlarged aortas, or aortic aneurysms, for whom surgery may not be necessary.The clinic is the newest …
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December
14,
2023
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11:15 AM
America/Los_Angeles
An artificial intelligence (AI) tool developed by investigators at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai and colleagues at two other institutions accurately predicted how patients would fare after surgeries and procedures.The results, published …
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October
24,
2023
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11:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Patients with a dysfunctional aortic heart valve who received a new, prosthetic valve through a minimally invasive procedure had similar outcomes at five years as those who underwent open-heart surgery, a new study shows.The international …
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September
12,
2023
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08:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Investigators from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai have found that community-level socioeconomic disparities are associated with worse three-year survival rates for patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation who had valve repair …
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May
23,
2023
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08:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Long-awaited outcomes data of transcatheter edge-to-edge procedures to repair patients’ leaky mitral valves revealed the minimally invasive procedure to be safe and effective in nearly 90% of patients, according to Cedars-Sinai …
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2022
December
28,
2022
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai was named a Mitral Valve Repair Reference Center, a recognition awarded to select U.S. medical centers that have a record of superior clinical outcomes resulting from evidence-based, guideline-directed …
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June
06,
2022
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07:11 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Michael Bowdish, MD, MS, a national leader in cardiac surgery and among a handful of cardiac surgeons continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health for a decade, has been appointed vice chair of the Department of Cardiac Surgery in the …
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2021
September
21,
2021
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08:01 AM
America/Los_Angeles
After reviewing national data from nearly 160,000 patients, Cedars-Sinai researchers found that transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, could be a favorable option for some low-risk patients with bicuspid aortic stenosis. The findings were …
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September
20,
2021
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Five years ago, Thomas Cooper says, he had never heard of an “aortic dissection.”But the growing pain in his chest led him to a hospital near his home in Azusa, California, where he learned he had an aortic dissection, a tear in the wall of the …
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2020
September
30,
2020
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09:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
HeartValveSurgery.com, a prominent heart health educational resource and online community for patients, recently featured cardiac surgeon Joanna Chikwe, MD, chair of the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Smidt Heart Institute, in a webinar. …
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March
10,
2020
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15:29 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Beverly Press recently interviewed Raj Makkar, MD, about a new research study showing that patients who underwent a minimally invasive transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR), had similar key five-year outcomes as patients who had …
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January
29,
2020
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14:01 PM
America/Los_Angeles
A new study from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai and other centers nationwide shows that patients who underwent a minimally invasive transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR), had similar key 5-year clinical outcomes of death and …
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2019
November
04,
2019
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
A study of thousands of patients with the most common form of heart disease shows that many are not receiving the best treatment to prevent future heart attacks and extend their lives.The study of patients with coronary artery disease, led by the …
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October
15,
2019
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Since August, when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a minimally invasive heart valve procedure for an expanded group of patients with aortic stenosis, Raj Makkar, MD, vice president of Cardiovascular Innovation and Intervention at …
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June
11,
2019
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08:01 AM
America/Los_Angeles
A new analysis conducted by investigators at the Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute shows for the first time that patients with a common heart defect who undergo catheter-based valve replacement procedures have the same survival and complication …
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April
03,
2019
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Roxanne Hanks, an independent insurance broker from Simi Valley, is living proof that aneurysms are not always a deadly condition. Hanks' own subtle yet persistent symptoms were in fact signs of an aortic aneurysm."I was healthy, I exercised and …
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2017
April
06,
2017
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01:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Contact Jane Engle | Email: jane.engle@cshs.orgLos Angeles — April 6, 2017 — Investigators at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute have learned how cardiac muscle cells react to a certain type of injury that can be caused by open-heart surgery. The …
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2012
March
26,
2012
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01:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Los Angeles - March 26, 2012 – Patients diagnosed with aortic stenosis who are too sick for open-heart surgery have better survival rates and an improved quality of life after undergoing catheter-based heart valve replacement than if the patients …
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