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05
Apr
2024
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06:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
e heart. In 2016, Pruetz helped perform the first fetal heart intervention in Southern California, which involved the successful opening of a blocked heart valve. He continues to study ways to improve the success of these fetal interventions.Pruetz also studies disparities in the detection and care ...
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15
Mar
2024
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08:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published March 7-14. If you have a published paper from this period that does not appear on this list, please contact Sue Marone.AnesthesiologyOverview and Clinical Applications of Artificial Intelligence and ...
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Feb
2024
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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 tricuspid valve following its approval by the U.S. Fo ...
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Jan
2024
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cardiologists and cardiac and vascular surgeons from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai are available for interviews throughout February to discuss heart-related topics, including the latest advances in research and patient care.“We pride ourselves on being one of the highest-ranked heart p ...
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Jan
2024
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06:45 AM
America/Los_Angeles
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, lead to death.Now, thanks to the Cardiovascular Advance ...
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Oct
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
rtic StenosisA new study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine and led by Raj Makkar, MD, found that 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 ...
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Oct
2023
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06:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
that continued for five months as Dominguez grew increasingly worried and frustrated. On her fourth visit, an echocardiogram revealed that she needed heart valve replacement—which meant open-heart surgery.“Immediately, I knew I needed the very best heart hospital,” Dominguez said. “And that ...
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Oct
2023
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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 multicenter study, with key contributions by the Cedars-Sinai ...
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Sep
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
and was also found to be associated with arrhythmias, which are abnormal heart rhythms.Opioid use had the strongest association with infection of the heart valves—a disease known as endocarditis—which was not surprising given that these drugs are often injected into the bloodstream.Alcohol use w ...
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Aug
2023
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15:30 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai investigators are leaders in the innovation and use of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with balloon-expandable valves. They now show that redo TAVR procedures are both safe and effective when compared with situations in which patients with similar risk profiles undergo the ...
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