Strengthening Aortic Aneurysm Screening Strategies to Save More Lives
AdventHealth Director of Aortic Surgery Ioannis Loumiotis, MD, shares how strengthening screening strategies can help identify aortic disease earlier.
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New Treatments for Cardiac Amyloidosis Emerging, but Timely Diagnosis Remains Essential to Improving Outcomes
In our latest Clinician’s View, Marcos Hazday, MD, FACC, director of the hypertrophic cardiomyopathy program at AdventHealth Orlando, discusses the new cardiac amyloidosis therapeutics available...
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Accelerating Identification and Treatment of Infectious Diseases Through On-site Next-Generation Sequencing
Mortality rates from treatment-resistant pathogens continue to rise, and the culprits include a wide and growing range of mycobacteria and fungi.
As a former clinically practicing physician who now...
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New Zero-Exchange Transseptal Access Tools Enhance Safety and Accuracy of Left-Heart Access for Surgical Heart Procedures
Every year, approximately 1.5 million surgical heart procedures require access to the left side of the heart for catheter-based treatments like atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation, left atrial appendage...
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AdventHealth Daytona Beach Surgeon First in Florida to Perform Robotic-assisted Convergent Hybrid Ablation Procedure
The Convergent Hybrid Ablation procedure has been gaining acceptance as an effective treatment option for long-standing persistent atrial fibrillation (AFib) since the CONVERGE trial data published in...
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An incredible journey through two open heart surgeries at AdventHealth
On the newest Inspiring Wholeness podcast, Obie Diaz, local morning radio show host, shares how a routine physical eventually led to two open heart surgeries.
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AdventHealth Launches Research Study to Evaluate an Evidence-based Intervention Designed to Address Physician Burnout
AdventHealth Research Institute is currently seeking physicians experiencing exhaustion, irritability, hopelessness, anxiety, work/home imbalance or similar burnout symptoms to participate in a...
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Graduate Medical Education -- an Opportunity and a Responsibility to Train Tomorrow’s Physicians Today.
Joseph Portoghese, MD, shares the growth of GME programs at AdventHealth over the last 20 years in his leadership role.
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Lessons Learned — Creating a Health Care Culture That Accelerates Improvement
In 1999, the Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality of Health Care in America released a pivotal report titled, “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System” in an effort to break the silence...
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Three Disruptive Clinical Innovations Could Shape the Next Decade in Health Care
From a rapidly growing population in need of our services to a shrinking workforce under increased stress, health care systems across the nation face access challenges that will impact our work for...
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AdventHealth Orlando is the First in Central Florida to Randomize a Patient in the Global ALLAY-HF Study for Alleviating Heart Failure Symptoms
Under the leadership of AdventHealth Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute interventional cardiologist Rohit Bhatheja, MD, MBA, FACC, FSCAI, AdventHealth Orlando became the first in Central Florida to...
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African Americans at Higher Risk for Cardiac Issues, AdventHealth Physician Says Small Changes Will Reduce Risk
Each year, more people die of heart attacks than of colon, breast, and prostate cancers combined, and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it seems to hit the African...
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New Implantable Heart Attack Detection and Warning System Advances Care for High-risk Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients
Avertix’s Guardian™ System, the first and only implantable device approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in patients who have had prior acute coronary syndrome (ACS) events...