During our recent patient webinar, “5 Warning Signs You May Need Heart Valve Surgery” , I received 43 questions that we did not have time to answer during the live event. Imagine my surprise when , a leading minimally-invasive heart surgeon at Northwestern Medicine and the featured speaker of the webinar, typed up answers to each patient question and asked me to post them here to help educate our patient community ..read more

Lynn Friedman With Jim, Her Husband and the entire team at ..read more

A Wrapped Pulmonary Valve Used During Ross Procedure , an advanced form of aortic valve replacement that moves the patient’s pulmonary valve into the aortic position ..read more

Click here to experience the new Aortic Stenosis & TAVR Patient Education Center. On behalf of our patient community, many thanks to Dr. Ashish Aneja, Dr. G. Michael Deeb, Dr. Kendra Grubb, Dr. Michael Reardon and the entire Structural Heart Team at Medtronic for supporting this global educational initiative ..read more

This is going to be great! To watch a video replay of the webinar, please click this link ..read more

P.S. You can also download a free copy of our new eBook, at Northwestern Medicine for sharing his research and clinical experiences specific to the five warning signs of heart valve disease! “5 Warning Signs You May Need Heart Valve Surgery”, at this link ..read more

Many thanks to Dr. Adams and the entire Mount Sinai team for taking such great care of Bono! , that he underwent a complex heart valve and aortic aneurysm surgery in 2016. It turns out that , a leading cardiac surgeon and friend of our community, performed Bono’s surgery ..read more

Daneen Douglas – One of Five Patient Winners ! In total, there were over 1,600 patients who entered the giveaway ..read more

If you are not familiar with the , here’s a quick video showing Ethan’s team competing on a “field of play”.  As you will see, the robotic teams built these amazing robots that are designed to perform several tasks during a “match”. This year, the robots get points for developing autonomous self-driving software, scoring goals and climbing poles. In addition, it’s really important that the robots can also play defense ..read more

Many thanks to Dr. Patrick McCarthy for sharing all of this important information about atrial fibrillation, heart valve disease and stroke risks with our patient community! , the Executive Director of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, to learn more about the new guidelines ..read more