Cardiovascular Physician Publication

2022 Fall

• Dr. Thomas MacGillivray assumes post as head of cardiac surgery across MedStar Health.

• Innovative cardiac transplant surgeon takes the helm of the advanced heart failure program.

• Texan with mitral annular calcification travels to Baltimore for leading Tendyne™ expertise.

• The next frontier in percutaneous mitral valve therapy.

• Promising new medication now available to patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

• Elite lead extraction program for implantable devices delivers fewer complications.

• Pulmonary hypertension: A hybrid team of providers manage the turning tide.

• The J.D. Murphy Jr. Cardio-Oncology Fellowship Program launches at MedStar Health, becoming one of only a few in the country.

• Hybrid vascular ORs open at MedStar Washington Hospital Center.

• Welcome new medical staff.

2022 Summer

• Established expertise and groudbreaking exploration.

• 20 years of TAVR.

• Robotic cardiac surgery launches at MedStar Washington Hospital Center.

• The next generation of pacemakers.

• New guidelines update heart failure definitions, stages, and treatments.

• The increasing impact of genetic counseling in cardiovascular medicine.

• The ‘e-consult’ program.

• New cardiometabolic clinic offers coordinated care for comorbidities.

• Palliative care's unprecedented penetration into the spheres of cardiovascular disease.

• News and notes.

2022 Spring

• Building an infrastructure of care, brick by brick.

• Piecing together the hypertrophic cardiomyopathy puzzle.

• Recurrent chest pain after COVID-19.

• Diagnosing coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD).

• Eight procedures and seven weeks of treatment restore full function to man with acute aortic dissection while positive with COVID-19.

• Welcome new physicians.

• News and notes.

2022 Winter

• An assembly of experts with a strategy of systemness.

• The future of cardiac surgery.

• A roundtable conversation on COVID-19 and cardiovascular health.

• The Pulmonary Embolism Response Team: A potent, multidisciplinary approach.

• Breakthrough therapy for central sleep apnea in heart failure patients.

• MedStar Health Wound Healing Institute: Unified expertise for wound care and limb salvage.

• Coordinating efforts across our geographic footprint: Regionalized cardiology programs in Baltimore and Washington.

• News and Notes.

• Newly FDA-approved LAA occluder device reduces stroke risk in AFib patients. 

• Trial begins on the first transcatheter treatment for severe aortic regurgitation.

• Noninvasive detection of heart transplant rejection study wins AHA's 2021 best paper award.

• New study evaluates expansion of the VenaSeal™ Closure System for venous varicosities.

• Welcome new medical staff.