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Is Anemia Common After Heart Bypass Surgery?

MIBHS

This surgery involves creating new pathways for blood to flow to the heart muscle by bypassing the blocked sections of the arteries. While this procedure can significantly enhance heart function and reduce symptoms of heart disease, it does come with potential risks and complications.

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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.

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Smidt Heart Institute Physicians Advance Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement

DAIC

If a valve cannot open or close fully it can interfere with blood flow and cause a host of health issues, including heart attack and stroke. Moderate and severe tricuspid disease is common in the U.S. The tricuspid valve is typically replaced during open-heart surgery. and affects an estimated 1.6

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FDA Announces Abiomed Recall of the Instructions for Use for the Impella Left Sided Blood Pumps due to Perforation Risks

DAIC

.: 66,390 Date Initiated by Firm: December 27, 2023 Device Use Impella Left Sided Blood Pumps are used for short term support of the pumping chambers of the heart (ventricles) during high-risk catheter-based procedures called percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI).

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Rise of the Lysenkoist Cardiologists

Dr. Anish Koka

The CDC wonder database that tracks mortality data shows just how much more deadly heart disease is in men than women. The table below shows mortality from heart disease for men vs women in 2000. Men die of heart disease at more than two times the rate women die starting at the age of 35.