Recent Posts in Heart Care

Jun 24, 2021 - In Heart Care A New State-of-the-art Imaging Test at Monmouth Medical Center Is Helping Doctors Diagnose and Monitor Cardiac Problems.

Upgraded MRI equipment allows cardiologist Ajay Shah, MD (shown seated with MRI supervisor Nicolas DeMonte, RT) to better assess the heart. Long Branch, NJ, June 24, 2021 – By now, you’ve probably heard that COVID-19 can wreak havoc on the heart. In a ...

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Jun 22, 2021 - In Heart Care A Grateful Heart

Advanced cardiac care enables a Short Hills man to bounce back from an aortic dissection. One of Mike Spar’s favorite sayings is, “You’re better off lucky than good.” The 65-year-old Short Hills attorney usually applies this insight to tennis, which he ...

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Jun 14, 2021 - In Heart Care Heart Surgery of the Future: Half-Day TAVR

Saint Barnabas Medical Center’s first “half-day TAVR” patient is feeling great after his minimally-invasive transcatheter aortic valve replacement procedure. Open-heart surgery was a big ordeal—this standard of care performed by doctors for more than 50 ...

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Jun 2, 2021 - In Heart Care Dr. Partho Sengupta Joins Cardiovascular Services Team at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Unveils Plans for Technology and Innovation Hub by Fall 2021 to Deliver New Models of Care to the Community New Brunswick, NJ -- Partho Sengupta, MD, FACC, will join Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical ...

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May 18, 2021 - In Heart Care Is Salt Sabotaging Your Health?

Here’s what it does to the body and how you can cut back. “Salt is all over the place in our diets—sometimes in obvious places like a salt shaker, and other times hidden in the food we consume,” says Elie Chakhtoura, MD, Director of the Cardiac ...

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May 14, 2021 - In Heart Care Woman Celebrates Mother's Day After Heart Transplant at Newark Beth Israel

A New Jersey woman spent Mother's Day healthy and happy with a brand new heart. Her heart failure escalated before the pandemic hit. She struggled to breathe and to walk. Then in February 2020, she got a lifesaving call. She received a new heart at the ...

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Apr 16, 2021 - In Heart Care The Gift of Life: Newark Beth Israel Medical Center’s Heart Transplant Program is Raising Awareness about Organ Donation

I have completed almost 650 heart transplants in my career as a cardiac surgeon. I have flown around the country more times than I can count, traveling everywhere from Wisconsin to Florida to complete these surgeries and stand on the front lines as ...

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Apr 13, 2021 - In Heart Care RWJBarnabas Health Comments on J&J Vaccine

The FDA and CDC have issued national guidance recommending a pause in the administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine after six of the 6.8 million people who have received the vaccine experienced rare and severe blood clots. As such, RWJBarnabas Health ...

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Apr 2, 2021 - In Heart Care OB/GYN and Cardiology Specialty Practice Opens in Irvington, NJ

The New Practice Is Affiliated with Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Irvington, NJ, April 5, 2021 – The Combined Medical Group of RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers Health, together with Newark Beth Israel Medical Center (NBI), has expanded patient services ...

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