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for number of days of successful ECMO support.Valve Replacement and RepairCedars-Sinai is a pioneer in novel techniques to repair or replace leaking heart valves. Physicians in the Department of Cardiac Surgery have performed more than 1,000 minimally invasive robotic mitral valve repairs with a su ... Read more

ly invasive treatment option was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after years of rigorous clinical trials. Instead of getting a new heart valve via open-heart surgery, some patients could opt to have the new valve implanted during a catheter-based procedure called transcatheter aor ... Read more

hy is a disease that causes the heart muscle to thicken and stiffen. As a result, it's less able to relax and fill with blood, resulting in damage to heart valves, fluid buildup in the lungs, and abnormal heart rhythms.Although separate and distinct conditions, cardiac amyloidosis and hypertrophic c ... Read more

Throughout the month of February—American Heart Month—the Cedars-Sinai Newsroom will highlight new research, heart-health recommendations and clinical and surgical advances. Experts from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, home to California’s top heart and heart surgery programs, are a ... Read more

list training in advanced cardiac surgery for three qualified general surgeons each year. The training will focus on lung and heart transplantations, heart valve repair and improving hybrid cardiac procedures.Gitta Nagel, a longtime philanthropist, gave birth to all four of her children at Cedars-Si ... Read more

Joanna Chikwe, MD, founding chair of the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Smidt Heart Institute, has been named editor-in-chief of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons' premier academic journal, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.With over 1.5 million page views a year, The Annals has the largest reader ... Read more

th Richard Kim, MD, surgical director of the Guerin Family Congenital Heart Program at Cedars-Sinai, about the diagnosis, management and treatment of heart valve disease in children. Certain types of congenital heart disease—or heart defects present at birth—affect the development of a c ... Read more

ship seeks to pioneer a new approach to cardiac training that will focus on improving hybrid cardiac procedures, heart and lung transplantations, and heart valve repair with the goals to reshape patient experience, cultivate transformative research and reduce patient dependence on medications and de ... Read more

s also will be available to comment on late-breaking science stemming from the conference.“Our presentations range from new surgical techniques and heart valve repair and replacement to atrial fibrillation, women’s heart disease, sudden cardiac arrest and genetics,” said Joanna Chikwe, MD, fou ... Read more

mon in men than in women. In addition to age and gender, additional risk factors include high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, heart failure, heart valve defects, obesity and diabetes.The condition is also more likely to happen during an infection or right after surgery. Stress, caffeine and ... Read more