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Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center Providing State-of-the-Art Medtronic APOLLO Clinical Trial Treating Heart Valve Disease

DAIC

Many patients with symptoms of mitral regurgitation are not candidates for open heart surgery due to their advanced age or competing comorbidities, nor are they candidates for the only alternative, the MitraClip device. It is one of only two New Jersey hospitals offering the trial to patients. Sable , M.D.,

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Rise of the Lysenkoist Cardiologists

Dr. Anish Koka

There may be no better study to symbolize the dysfunction that has invaded cardiology than the VIRGO trial, a study examining the outcomes of young patients (18-55) presenting to the hospital with a heart attack. More cardiac injury means more dead heart muscle, and a larger scar.