Your Head and Your Heart: Understanding the Connection
Research around the link between cognitive health and heart health is growing, with recommendations increasingly mirroring each other. A better understanding could create more targ...
Heart Surgeon Serves Up Healthy Italian Food Tips
Dr. Trento grew up in Italy, and the love of his life, Robin, spent much of the first year of their marriage learning about one of his other great loves: his mother's cooking. Vers...
Faces of Cedars-Sinai: Dr. Peng-Sheng Chen
Meet Dr. Peng-Sheng Chen, a cardiologist at Cedars-Sinai! Dr. Chen, the Burns and Allen Chair in Cardiology Research, talks about his journey from Taiwan to Cedars-Sinai and his ca...
Navy Veteran Gets Lifesaving Heart Surgery
Navy veteran Eric Axel Jensen underwent a lifesaving heart surgery by Dr. Fardad Esmailian, who had successfully replaced his aortic valve with a bovine (cow) valve and repaired hi...
Minimally Invasive Surgery for Aortic Valve Repair
Cedars-Sinai cardiac surgeon Dr. Pedro Catarino explains the treatment options for aortic valve repair and who is a good candidate for minimally invasive cardiac surgery.
Treatment Options for Heart Valve Disease
Cedars-Sinai cardiologist Dr. Joanna Chikwe explains the options for treating heart valve disease, specifically replacing or repairing the mitral heart valve.
Faces of Cedars-Sinai: Dr. Raj Makkar
Meet Dr. Raj Makkar, associate director of Interventional Technologies at the Smidt Heart Institute! Learn about his journey here from India, his favorite parts of his job and what...
Cedars-Sinai Blog / May 24, 2021
The Cedars-Sinai Specialist Aortic Service and Acute Aortic Di...
The best aortic dissection treatment results are achieved in centers that provide a dedicated service, like Cedars-Sinai. An experienced team is vital to the success of the necessa...
Cedars-Sinai Blog / Mar 15, 2021
Setting the Standard in Mitral Valve Repair
Cedars-Sinai received the top rating from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons for mitral surgery again this year and is supporting new initiatives to help patients and their physician...
Cedars-Sinai Blog / Mar 15, 2021
Important Changes Published in the new 2020 ACC/AHA Valvular H...
New guidelines published in the 2020 ACC/AHA Guideline for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease impact treatment of chronic, severe functional mitral regurgitatio...
Cedars-Sinai Blog / Mar 15, 2021
"Broken Heart" Syndrome Spikes During COVID-19
Incidence of Takotsubo or “broken heart” syndrome increased in 2020, and the COVID-19 pandemic is one reason for the spike.
Discoveries / Mar 09, 2021
Don't Delay Urgent Health Needs
Urgent health needs won't wait for the COVID-19 pandemic to pass—and neither should you. Pain, cancer, diabetes, and heart problems need consistent treatment and management. When i...
Cedars-Sinai Magazine / Mar 08, 2021
Advanced Coronary Revascularization for Severe Coronary Diseas...
With an international expert team of heart specialists in cardiovascular surgery and coronary vascularization, Cedars-Sinai is a leader in advancing the surgical technique to impro...
Cedars-Sinai Blog / Feb 24, 2021
Lupus and Heart Disease: A Deadly Duo
Many patients with the autoimmune disease lupus are dying from heart disease, and Cedars-Sinai experts in cardiology, immunology and rheumatology have joined forces to find out why...
Discoveries / Feb 23, 2021
The Beat Goes On: How Minimally Invasive Surgery Saved A 77-Ye...
Just a decade ago, surgical options were limited for people like 77-year-old drummer Denny Seiwell, who came to Cedars-Sinai with a life-threatening aortic aneurysm. But advances i...
Discoveries / Feb 17, 2021
