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Atlantic Health System’s Morristown Medical Center Tops 5,000 TAVR Procedures

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Morristown Medical Center’s Gagnon Cardiovascular Institute’s structural heart program recently reported it has reached a significant milestone of performing over 5,000 transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures, the first in New Jersey and among the first to accomplish this in the United States.

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ABMS Rejects Independent CV Board, Doesn’t Explain Why

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In a move that could mark a serious setback for independent cardiology certification, the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) denied the joint ACC/AHA/HRS/SCAI/HFSA request to launch a new American Board of Cardiovascular Medicine. cardiologists and other CV specialists. One potential answer why?