Cardiology

The FDA has approved a polypill as an initial treatment for hypertension in adults for the first time. Here’s what to know: 1. Widaplik — manufactured by George Medicines — is a polypill that contains telmisartan, amlodipine and indapamide. 2.…

Mineola, N.Y.-based NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island cut time from door-to-activation of the neurointerventional radiology team by 12.5 minutes, or 35.2%, for patients with strokes. The hospital asked medical residents, physician assistants and all members of the stroke team to participate…

Lehigh Valley Hospital–Muhlenberg in Bethlehem, Pa., has opened a new hybrid electrophysiology lab.  Three things to know: 1. The Steve and Jeanne Follett Hybrid Electrophysiology Lab is the first in Pennsylvania to feature a new imaging system from GE Healthcare,…

Jeffrey Towbin, MD, will retire from serving as chief of pediatric cardiology at Memphis, Tenn.-based Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital.  Dr. Towbin’s retirement will also encompass his positions as executive co-director of the Heart Institute and vice chair of Pediatric for…

Cleveland-based University Hospitals’ UH Lake West Medical Center in Willoughby, Ohio, has established a structural heart program and opened a cardiac catheterization lab.  The program will be overseen by interventional cardiologist Justin Dunn, MD. Dr. Dunn is the regional director…

From identifying patients at-risk of developing heart conditions to improving diagnostic accuracy and mapping digital heart twins, cardiologists are increasingly developing innovative ways to harness the power of AI.  Becker’s asked four leaders how they integrate AI across the cardiovascular…

Male athletes who exercised more than 3,000 metabolic equivalents of task-minutes per week had a higher likelihood of experiencing subclinical coronary atherosclerosis, according to a study published June 4 in JACC: Advances. One of the study’s authors, Leandro Slipczuk, MD,…

Coral Gables, Fla.-based Baptist Health has appointed Bradley Taylor, MD, as chief of cardiac surgery for the system’s North region. Dr. Taylor will also serve as the chief of quality and outcomes for Baptist Health Heart & Vascular Care, according…

In July 2024, a team of surgeons at NewYork-Presbyterian Children’s Hospital of New York—Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital performed a split-root domino partial heart transplant, saving the life of three children over the course of 24 hours.  The procedures were led…

Surgeons at Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine’s Heart and Vascular Institute performed the world’s first robotic transcatheter aortic valve replacement explant and aortic valve replacement.  The procedure was performed May 27 by Vinay Badhwar, MD, executive chair of the WVU Heart…