To more accurately identify risk factors for sudden cardiac death, UVA researchers are leading an international observational study evaluating data from an NIH-funded registry of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients.
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UVA Heart and Vascular Center has earned the Gold Level Excellence in Life Support Award from the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization and has also been recognized as a Center of Comprehensive Care by the Pulmonary Hypertension Association.
You know the importance of exercise. You’re well aware of its value in maintaining your health. You likely even prescribe it regularly to your patients. But are you following doctor’s orders?
Interventional cardiologist Scott Lim, MD, explains the advantages of the AMPLATZER™ PFO Occluder device, which was recently approved by the FDA and is now available at UVA.
UVA Heart & Vascular Center welcomed its first patients at its new location at Fontaine Research Park, which is easily accessible and has free parking.
The robot allows for improvements in precision and measuring that really couldn’t be performed before. It also removes the radiation risk and ergonomic discomfort involved in performing coronary angioplasties.
Learn more about their clinical areas of focus and why they chose to stay at UVA.
UVA’s skilled team of cardiologists, heart surgeons, nurses and therapists provide comprehensive care and monitoring to complex heart patients.
The “metabolic crystal ball” provides differing weights for the traditional risk factors and also takes into account race, gender and ethnicity to produce an easy-to-understand metabolic severity score.
In addition to high blood pressure, smoking and diabetes, it’s important not to overlook stress as a leading cause of heart disease.