Recent Posts in Heart Care

Sep 25, 2020 - In Heart Care Monmouth Medical Center to Offer Screening Event to Determine Risk for Underlying Vascular Disease

Long Branch, NJ, September 25, 2020 – Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the US, and the disease that causes it, atherosclerotic disease (hardening of the arteries), also can cause stroke, peripheral vascular disease, and aneurysm formation. ...

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Sep 22, 2020 - In Heart Care TAVR: A 'Paradigm Shift' In Heart Valve Repair

An innovative procedure called TAVR gives more patients the option of minimally invasive aortic valve replacement. Arash Salemi, MD, clinical chairman of cardiothoracic surgery at RWJBarnabas Health— Northern Region, calls a new procedure to replace ...

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Aug 21, 2020 - In Heart Care New Help for Aortic Valve Disease

A minimally invasive surgery can be the answer for aortic stenosis. Arash Salemi, MD, Clinical Chairman of Cardiothoracic Surgery for RWJBarnabas Health, Northern Region, has performed more than 2,000 TAVR procedures. The true value of innovative heart ...

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Aug 10, 2020 - In Heart Care RWJBarnabas Health Teams Up with American Heart Association to Raise Awareness and Support Research for Cardiovascular Disease

Bill Arnold Named Chair of 2020 Shoreline Heart Walk Eatontown, NJ, August 10, 2020 – RWJBarnabas Health will partner with the American Heart Association again this year to raise awareness and funds for lifesaving cardiovascular research. Bill Arnold, MHA, ...

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Jul 29, 2020 - In Heart Care Put Your Heart In Good Hands

One of Saint Barnabas Medical Center’s finest cardiothoracic surgeons explains the risk factors for aneurysm and the various cutting-edge aortic procedures he performs. If a patient has to undergo a surgical procedure, he or she undoubtedly wants the best ...

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Jul 16, 2020 - In Heart Care Jersey City Medical Center Welcomes World-Class Cardiothoracic Surgeon At Hudson County’s Only Open Heart Surgery Program

Tyrone Krause, MD, Esq, Chief of Cardiothoracic and Chair of Surgery at Jersey City Medical Center, Iosif Gulkarov, MD, Associate Chief of Cardiac Surgery, Jersey City Medical Center Jersey City, NJ, July 15, 2020 – Tyrone Krause, MD , Esq, Chief of ...

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Jul 1, 2020 - In Heart Care Safe and Sound in the E.D.: Newark Beth Israel Medical Center

Rigorous procedures ensure the safety of emergency department patients and staff. Emergency Department (ED) visits fell sharply during the height of the coronavirus crisis, in New Jersey and nationally as well—and that has doctors worried. “In the ...

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Jun 16, 2020 - In Heart Care Three RWJUH Patients Celebrate Successful Same-Day Discharge after Heart Valve Replacement Surgery

New Brunswick, NJ – In a single day, three patients underwent heart valve replacement surgery on the same morning at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New Brunswick and were discharged home later in the day. All three patients suffered from aortic ...

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