Articles tagged with 'cardiac surgery research' | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

People who underwent a minimally invasive procedure to have their heart’s aortic valve replaced had similar health outcomes years after treatment as people who had surgery, Cedars-Sinai investigators and colleagues report.Raj Makkar, MD, an …

Cedars-Sinai has been awarded $26 million to study whether open-heart surgery or a minimally invasive procedure has better outcomes in people born with a common heart condition.Led by interventional cardiologist Raj Makkar, MD, the …

Older patients with poor nutrition prior to undergoing elective cardiac surgery are more likely than older patients with good nutrition to die within 30 days after surgery, according to a new study by Cedars-Sinai investigators. The findings, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …