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...
Dr. Sabet Hashim, a world leader in mitral valve repair surgery, has devised a new technique that restores a leaky mitral valve in patients who have had a heart attack. Dr. Hashim, co-physician-in-chief of the Hartford HealthCare Heart & Vascular Institute, answers questions in this video about this new valve repair technique:...
The Hartford HealthCare Heart & Vascular Institute’s Electrophysiology Lab at Hartford Hospital, which last year performed 1,300 procedures for more than 800 patients, knows what to expect from an aging population — more and more patients with heart-rhythm disorders. An estimated 9 percent of people in the United States age 65...
Windham Hospital and Hartford Healthcare Medical Group have added three new cardiology providers who are now seeing patients at the Windham Hospital Family Health Center at 5 Founders Street in Willimantic. Vidya Nadig, MD, Anu Vellanki, MD and Darcy Ulitsch, APRN are all accepting new patients. “I am pleased to...
Cardiologist Dr. Paul Thompson is co-physician-in-chief of the Hartford HealthCare Heart & Vascular Institute. He is also a recognized national and international expert on the athlete’s heart. In these set of wide-ranging interviews with radio hosts Rob Dibble and Ben Darnell, Dr. Thompson talks about exercising in the heat, heart health...
About 3,000 people in the United States are kept alive with a mechanical heart pump. They’re either waiting for a heart transplant or living with that pump for the rest of their lives. But what if one of these patients goes into cardiac arrest? Proceeding with CPR on these patients...
