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2024
March
13,
2024
| 08:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
For the fourth consecutive year, the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program in the Division of Hematology and Cellular Therapy at Cedars-Sinai has achieved higher than expected survival rates in patients receiving allogeneic stem cell
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March
08,
2024
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
The Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai recently became one of four institutions in the U.S. and the first on the West Coast to use a new device aimed at lowering blood pressure in patients with difficult-to-treat hypertension. Cedars-Sinai is
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March
06,
2024
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
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
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February
27,
2024
| 09:20 AM America/Los_Angeles
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.“Sudden cardiac arrest is a mostly lethal condition, and
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February
20,
2024
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
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 Institute
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February
19,
2024
| 11:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
A new study from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai shows there is a gap between women and men when it comes to exercise.The findings, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), show that women can exercise less
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February
16,
2024
| 08:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Experts at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai who have studied progress made over decades of research say there’s still a long way to go before medical science fully understands how heart disease is different in women than men.But there is
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February
14,
2024
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
A collaborative group of investigators used artificial intelligence (AI) to quickly and accurately measure fat around the heart using a low-dose computed tomography (CT) scan during a routine test. The technique, identified by the Division of
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February
08,
2024
| 09:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
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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February
02,
2024
| 08:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
The Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center and Smidt Heart Institute together completed 652 solid organ transplants in 2023, far outpacing Cedars-Sinai’s internal record set just one year ago, when surgeons completed 583 transplants.Known for
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January
25,
2024
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
Investigators from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai and colleagues found that women with steatotic liver disease related to alcohol consumption have almost twice the risk of dying within a certain time period than men with the
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January
24,
2024
| 06:45 AM America/Los_Angeles
You may not know Carol Barr, but in the future, she could save your life.Barr’s death at 39 from sudden cardiac arrest was caused by mitral valve prolapse—a heart valve defect that can affect the heart’s ability to pump blood. It can, in some cases,
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January
19,
2024
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
Heart rhythm expert Sumeet Chugh, MD, associate director of the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, is the recipient of this year’s American College of Cardiology (ACC) Distinguished Scientist Award-Clinical Domain.“I am grateful to my ACC
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January
16,
2024
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
One of the Smidt Heart Institute’s leading experts in artificial intelligence, David Ouyang, MD, has been named a deputy editor of NEJM AI—a newly established, peer-reviewed journal from the publishers of the highly respected, New England Journal of
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January
03,
2024
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
A new research study from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai aimed to understand the possible connection between COVID-19 vaccination and a difficult-to-diagnose heart condition called postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, or POTS. The
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2023
December
20,
2023
| 06:45 AM America/Los_Angeles
Jennifer Van Eyk, PhD, director of the Advanced Clinical Biosystems Research Institute in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai has been honored by two national organizations for her excellence and leadership in the field of
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December
18,
2023
| 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
18,
2023
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
In the summer of 2022, an overwhelmed Jon Anderson was nervously preparing for a big moment—having robotic coronary artery bypass surgery. Just over a year later, in the fall of 2023, Anderson was staring down another major life event. This one:
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December
14,
2023
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
The Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai has expanded its popular Virtual Second Opinion Program to women living with or at risk of developing heart disease, the nation’s leading cause of death in women.The institute’s specialists from the Barbra
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December
12,
2023
| 15:30 PM America/Los_Angeles
Infusions of potentially therapeutic cells derived from the heart are safe for people with pulmonary arterial hypertension, a form of high blood pressure that occurs in the blood vessels of the lungs and typically affects middle-aged women,
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December
04,
2023
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
This holiday season, Valance Sams, Sr. hopes to finish the most important thank-you note he’s ever written—one he’s been pondering for months. It’s been challenging to get all that he wants to say down on paper, in just the right way. Most days, a
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November
22,
2023
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
This Thanksgiving marks a little more than 25 years since Christine Galan became the first person in the Western U.S. to have a combined organ transplant (heart and liver), and nearly five years since she returned to Cedars-Sinai for another organ
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November
16,
2023
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
Investigators from the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai have found that among a cohort of women with obstructive coronary artery disease treated at academic medical centers, racial and ethnic
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November
13,
2023
| 10:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
Sudden cardiac arrest remains a deadly and complex condition, but investigators in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai have discovered a new method—using a widely available cardiovascular test—for predicting the heart malfunction.“This is
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November
08,
2023
| 07:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Imagine mailing a blood sample to a laboratory and a scientist being able to tell you if you have hidden cancer or whether your arteries are blocked.This is the future envisioned by Jennifer Van Eyk, PhD, director of the Advanced Clinical
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October
26,
2023
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
She was five days postpartum. Her first child was a perfect baby girl. What was supposed to be among the happiest times in Marisa Dominguez’s life was, instead, the scariest.Dizzy, lightheaded and having trouble breathing, Dominguez rushed to her
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October
24,
2023
| 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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October
23,
2023
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
A device pioneered in partnership with Cedars-Sinai to close the most common heart defect in premature babies is safe and effective, according to the results of a clinical trial recently published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Perinatology.“This
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October
20,
2023
| 06:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
Huntington Health recently marked the two-year anniversary of its affiliation with Cedars-Sinai Health System. In this brief time, the relationship has brought important benefits to both organizations, their staffs and the patients they
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October
18,
2023
| 08:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Investigators from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai found that an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm can detect an abnormal heart rhythm in people not yet showing symptoms.The algorithm, which identified hidden signals in common medical
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