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nstitute at Cedars-Sinai, about her minimally-invasive approach to fixing leaks caused by mitral valve regurgitation, one of the most common forms of heart valve disease. The mitral valve helps regulate the direction of blood flow in the heart. When the valve becomes leaky, it causes mitral val ... Read more

Lisa Stewart doesn't dwell on the fact that she might be the first in the nation to undergo both mitral and tricuspid valve replacement procedures. She's too busy counting her blessings.“Life before and after my procedures is as different as night and day," Stewart ... Read more

r of attendees for the platform, Chikwe reviewed the latest in COVID-19 research and how the disease impacts the heart. Chikwe, who specializes in heart valve surgery, highlighted a recent Cedars-Sinai study, which found that the novel coronavirus may be able to directly infect the heart's ce ... Read more

tion, nearly 1.5 million people in the U.S. have aortic valve stenosis, a narrowing or hardening of the aortic valve caused by calcium buildup on the heart valve flaps. Patients with a severe form of the disease experience symptoms including shortness of breath, chest pain, fatigue and fainting. Man ... Read more

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 stroke as patients who had traditional open-heart s ... Read more

ognizes her major standing as an international leader in cardiovascular surgery with clinical expertise and major scholarly contributions in advanced heart valve repair, coronary revascularization and minimally invasive heart procedures.“In terms of diversity, the field of cardiology has alway ... Read more

2019 was a year of innovations for the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, capped off with the news that the institute's newly-formed Department of Cardiac Surgery earned a distinguished three-star rating from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. The Society of Thoracic Surge ... Read more

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 Cedars-Sinai, says many more patients are opting for t ... Read more

ognizes her major standing as an international leader in cardiovascular surgery with clinical expertise and major scholarly contributions in advanced heart valve repair, coronary revascularization and minimally invasive heart procedures.“Joanna Chikwe is nationally regarded as an expert in hea ... Read more

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 rates as patients without the defect who undergo the s ... Read more