Cedars-Sinai Medical Center - Archive Heart Transplant, Cardiac Surgery
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2026
July
28,
2026
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
G’bari Gilliam was living the life he had dreamed about since childhood. The professional hip-hop dancer had moved to Los Angeles, built a successful career and was rehearsing for his next performance one afternoon in March 2026 when his heart …
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February
26,
2026
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center and the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai completed 677 solid organ transplants in 2025, setting several new institutional records in liver and lung transplant.Irene Kim, MD, …
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February
06,
2026
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06:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Good Morning America recently interviewed Cedars-Sinai cardiologist Erika Jones, MD, and Laura DiChiacchio, MD, PhD, a cardiothoracic surgeon in the Smidt Heart Institute, to discuss the heart transplant received by Christopher “Kid” Reid of the …
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2025
October
24,
2025
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai has selected four directors who bring expertise in fetal cardiology, cardiac surgery, donor organ preservation and pediatric interventional cardiology.“We continue to expand the number of clinicians, …
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September
10,
2025
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Entertainment journalist Marc Malkin is accustomed to asking personal questions of others. But lately, he’s been the one sharing details of his life. In an essay published in Variety, Malkin revealed that soon after covering the 2025 Academy …
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July
14,
2025
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09:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Variety recently published a column by Cedars-Sinai patient and entertainment journalist Marc Malkin chronicling his experience being diagnosed with and treated for a serious heart condition at the Smidt Heart Institute.Cedars-Sinai cardiologist …
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July
09,
2025
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
When Ariana Pulido was on her way to Las Vegas to celebrate her boyfriend’s birthday in April 2023, she felt a deep stomach cramp. She brushed it off. But two days later, on her way back home to Oxnard, California, the pain became unbearable.A CT …
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July
03,
2025
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Department of Cardiac Surgery in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai has earned a prestigious rating achieved by the top heart surgery programs in the U.S.The three-star quality rating from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons is the …
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February
28,
2025
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08:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center and the Smidt Heart Institute set a new record in 2024 by completing 682 solid organ transplants—the most the medical center has performed in a year—as patient survival outcomes continued to meet or …
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February
26,
2025
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06:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Herbert Shaw would rather do almost anything than see a doctor. But when he started having trouble digesting food last spring, he knew he needed medical attention. A doctor ordered a CT scan and discovered a grapefruit-sized bulge in Shaw’s aorta. …
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February
06,
2025
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06:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
When life gets bleak for Destany Epps-Manuel, 36, she knows the only way to go is forward.That’s what she’s been doing since she was 22, when she was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy, a rare disease that causes the heart muscle to weaken and, …
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January
03,
2025
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The anticoagulant drug enoxaparin can be a safe and cost-effective method to prevent blood clotting in patients with heart pumps who require alternative anticoagulation without the need for hospitalization (“bridging” procedures), provided that …
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2024
August
06,
2024
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06:31 AM
America/Los_Angeles
As part of the women’s crew team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), she spent mornings and evenings gliding down Boston’s Charles River.At home in Puerto Rico during college breaks, she perfected her rowing technique in the island’s …
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July
01,
2024
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06:15 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Jon Kobashigawa, MD, director of the Heart Transplant Program in the Department of Cardiology in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, has assumed the top volunteer leadership position of the American Society of Transplantation.As of June, …
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April
29,
2024
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Charles Schulz and his wife, Flor, sat in their living room on New Year’s Eve 2023, watching TV and counting down the seconds until the ball dropped in New York’s Times Square. After the clock struck midnight, the couple kissed and Flor said to her …
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February
02,
2024
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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
24,
2024
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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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2023
December
18,
2023
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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
04,
2023
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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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September
13,
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai has earned a prestigious designation for its excellence in adult and pediatric extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO—an often lifesaving treatment where blood is pumped outside of a patient’s body to …
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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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June
28,
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The summit is a good place to be.Staying active on the hiking trails around the southern highlands of Australia, where he retired earlier this year after a career in film marketing, Jon Anderson is feeling there’s little he can’t conquer.And he …
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