You’ve probably heard that heart disease, cancer and stroke are among the leading causes of death in the United States. These conditions are often accompanied by several warning signs that can prompt someone to get help. But with abdominal aortic aneurysms, the 13th-leading cause of death in the U.S., you...
The expanded use of a heart-valve replacement technology for patients too ill for open-heart surgery, approved only in June by the Food and Drug Administration, was adopted quickly by doctors at the Heart & Vascular Institute. Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement, or TMVR, allows doctors to replace a malfunctioning mitral valve...
A team of physicians at the Hartford HealthCare Heart & Vascular Institute recently became the first in Connecticut to repair a life-threatening aortic aneurysm using a new device as part of a clinical trial approved by the Food & Drug Administration. Dr. Thomas Divinagracia is the chief of vascular surgery at Hartford...
There is absolutely nothing good about tobacco, according to Dr. Peter Yu, head of the Hartford HealthCare Cancer Institute. “Tobacco is just a bad product,” he says, “one that kills people or makes their lives horrific. I find it hard to think of any one substance that can harm your...
When Jonathan Henry needed a new heart, he did his research to find a hospital where clinicians had extensive transplant experience, and could both support and respect his religious tenets, which required a transplant performed bloodlessly — without blood transfusions. He found what he needed at Hartford Hospital. Hartford Hospital...
Dr. Stefan Kachala has joined the medical staffs of MidState Medical Center and The Hospital of Central Connecticut (HOCC) and will oversee their thoracic program, which provides multidisciplinary, coordinated care to patients who need surgical treatment of the chest – including the lungs, esophagus and thymus. Typical conditions treated in...
Doctors at Hartford Hospital recently implanted the world’s smallest pacemaker. It’s called the Micra transcatheter pacing system, and it’s designed for patients who need a single-chamber pacemaker. Dr. Steven Zweibel, Director of Electrophysiology at Hartford Hospital, has the details. Q: The size of this pacemaker is similar to that of...
