Vanderbilt Heart And Vascular Institute

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Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute is one of 11 centers selected by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) to implement a new program designed to reduce readmission rates for patients with myocardial infarction, heart failure and acute coronary syndrome. Read More

(iStock) Join Health Plus and Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute cardiologist Mark Glazer for an informative heart health discussion on the new guidelines for heart disease prevention and what they mean for you. Wear red to this event and get a heart-healthy lunch and gift. To calculate your risk… Read More

From left to right: Charlotte Chaney; Brad Simmons, Turner Construction; Pam Jones; C. Wright Pinson, MBA, M.D.; Keith Churchwell, M.D.; David Posch; Robin Steaban, R.N.; Mark Robbins, M.D.; Mitch Edgeworth, MBA On Feb. 3 the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute will relocate its key procedure areas to… Read More

Ahead of its move into new space on the fifth floor of the Critical Care Tower in February, the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute has announced two key position changes. Read More

Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute is participating in a clinical trial to evaluate a medical device for the treatment of coronary artery disease. Read More

Thomas Wang was born in Boston, raised in Boston and educated in Boston. But Vanderbilt's emphasis on personalized medicine in both research and clinical implementation lured him to Nashville. Read More

Researchers at the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital have identified a biomarker that can predict diabetes risk up to 10 years before onset of the disease. Read More

As a member of the Tune Town Show Chorus, 20-year-old Kyla Hallums was used to belting out songs and thought it strange when she became short of breath on Sept. 1. Read More

Cardiac surgeons recently performed Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute’s 100th ventricular assist device (VAD) implant. Read More

Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute is the first in the United States to use a new fully resorbable “envelope” that encloses implantable cardiac devices, such as pacemakers and internal cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), and helps prevent surgical site infections. Read More

People with the most common irregular heart rhythm known as atrial fibrillation (AF) are at greater risk for stroke due to the formation of clots in the left atrial appendage (LAA), a small pouch which empties blood into the left atrium. Read More

Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute physicians are taking advantage of new technology in critical care that allows them to quickly visualize the patient’s heart at the bedside. Read More

Peggi Angel, Ph.D., research instructor in Biochemistry, studies congenital aortic valve stenosis in children. It’s a disease where the heart valve, which is normally very thin, becomes bloated with extracellular matrix. This occurs rapidly in some children but not in others. Read More

During Cardiovascular Research Day, keynote speaker Sekar Kathiresan, M.D., second from left, associate professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, visits with Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute’s Sergio Fazio, M.D., Ph.D., left, MacRae Linton, M.D., Thomas Wang, M.D., David Harrison, M.D., and Dan Roden, M.D. Read More

Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute is participating in a clinical study to further evaluate the safety and feasibility of rapidly lowering the body’s temperature to significantly reduce the amount of damage caused by a heart attack. Read More

Thomas Wang, M.D., has joined Vanderbilt as director of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and the physician-in-chief of the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute. Read More

The state of Michael Stanbery’s health was shocking. Read More

Over the next three years, Medicare will test a new payment arrangement that rewards participating hospitals when Medicare patients require fewer inpatient and post-discharge services, but extracts financial penalties when patients require more of these services. Read More

Life just got a little easier for Vanderbilt patients with structural heart disease. Read More