Volume 10 - Issue 11 - November 2010
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The Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center recently opened an innovative hybrid, robotic operating suite, which integrates advanced robotics, imaging and navigation with surgery to offer patients the least invasive and safest surgical...
The Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center recently opened an innovative hybrid, robotic operating suite, which integrates advanced robotics, imaging and navigation with surgery to offer patients the least invasive and safest surgical...
The Methodist DeBakey Heart...
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Stephen L. Winters, MD, FACC, FHRS; Jonathan S. Sussman, MD, FACC; Jay H. Curwin, MD, FACC; Robert F. Coyne, MD, FACC; Timothy H. Mahoney, MD
The Gagnon Cardiovascular Institute, Morristown Memorial Hospital
Morristown, New Jersey
Stephen L. Winters, MD, FACC, FHRS; J...
Initial Experience with the Carto® 3 Navigation System:
System Provides Enhanced Efficacy and Precision of Electroanatomical Mapping
Electrophysiologists at Gagnon Cardiovascular Institute were the first in the nation to use a new 3-D...
Initial Experience with the Carto® 3 Navigation System:
System Provides Enhanced Efficacy and Precision of Electroanatomical Mapping
Electrophysiologists at Gagnon Cardiovascular Institute were the first in the nation to use a new 3-D...
Initial Experience with the...
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William Nicholson, MD, York Hospital, York, Pennsylvania
William Nicholson, MD, York Hospital,...
In June 2010, Dr. William Nicholson and colleagues at York Hospital became the first hospital in the country to implant a cardiac plug device. Learn more about this technology below.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia...
In June 2010, Dr. William Nicholson and colleagues at York Hospital became the first hospital in the country to implant a cardiac plug device. Learn more about this technology below.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia...
In June 2010, Dr. William...
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In this interview we speak with Matt Willingham from the Preemptive Love Coalition (PLC), a medical coalition that helps to provide lifesaving heart surgery for Iraqi children.
How did you get started? Describe Preemptive Love Coalition’s...
In this interview we speak with Matt Willingham from the Preemptive Love Coalition (PLC), a medical coalition that helps to provide lifesaving heart surgery for Iraqi children.
How did you get started? Describe Preemptive Love Coalition’s...
In this interview we speak with...
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Lawrence J. Kanner, MD, Director of Electrophysiology and Arrhythmia Services, and Michele Farber, RPA, physician assistant, Electrophysiology/Division of Cardiology, South Nassau Communities Hospital, Oceanside, New York
Lawrence J. Kanner, MD, Director of E...
Neurocardiogenic syncope (NCS) in patients who are refractory to conventional measures such as pharmacological treatment and/or implantation of standard pacemakers can be trying to both patient and physician. Quality of life as well as the...
Neurocardiogenic syncope (NCS) in patients who are refractory to conventional measures such as pharmacological treatment and/or implantation of standard pacemakers can be trying to both patient and physician. Quality of life as well as the...
Neurocardiogenic syncope (NCS)...
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Dr. Chee Kim is an electrophysiologist with Buffalo Medical Group (BMG) and director of the Electrophysiology Laboratory at Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) in Buffalo, New York.
Tell us about your medical background and how you came to...
Dr. Chee Kim is an electrophysiologist with Buffalo Medical Group (BMG) and director of the Electrophysiology Laboratory at Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) in Buffalo, New York.
Tell us about your medical background and how you came to...
Dr. Chee Kim is an...
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Bradley P. Knight, MD, FACC, FHRS, Editor-in-Chief
Bradley P. Knight, MD, FACC, FHRS, Ed...
Dear Readers,
The Affordable Care Act prohibits health insurance plans from putting “lifetime” dollar limits on covered services. It will also prohibit insurance companies from denying coverage of patients with preexisting medical...
Dear Readers,
The Affordable Care Act prohibits health insurance plans from putting “lifetime” dollar limits on covered services. It will also prohibit insurance companies from denying coverage of patients with preexisting medical...
Dear Readers,
The Affordable...
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Fermin C. Garcia, MD, Monica R. Pammer, PA-C, Francis E. Marchlinski, MD, Cardiac Electrophysiology Program, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Fermin C. Garcia, MD, Monica R. Pamme...
Electrophysiologists from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania were the first in the region to implant a new subcutaneous defibrillator system. The device implantation is part of an ongoing clinical trial; learn more about the...
Electrophysiologists from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania were the first in the region to implant a new subcutaneous defibrillator system. The device implantation is part of an ongoing clinical trial; learn more about the...
Electrophysiologists from the...
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Darryl S. Wells, MD, FACC, Swedish Heart and Vascular Institute, Seattle, Washington
Darryl S. Wells, MD, FACC, Swedish He...
In this article, the author discusses his clinical experience with hybrid endocardial and epicardial ablation at the Swedish Heart and Vascular Institute.
Persistent and long-standing persistent atrial fibrillation (Pers-LSP AF) remains a...
In this article, the author discusses his clinical experience with hybrid endocardial and epicardial ablation at the Swedish Heart and Vascular Institute.
Persistent and long-standing persistent atrial fibrillation (Pers-LSP AF) remains a...
In this article, the author...
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