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A recent study published in Circulation shows that patients who take their medication faithfully have dramatically better long-term outcomes, regardless of whether they have CABG or PCI. However, among the non-adherent group, CABG patients fared better with fewer major adverse cardiac events in the years after surgery.
“This study shows how important it is to get to know your patients and find out how well they comply with medication,” says Paul Kurlansky, MD, who led the study and is currently director of research for Columbia HeartSource.

NYP/Columbia was among the first to offer patients access to Heartmate 3, the newest LVAD technology, in a clinical trial testing it against current standard of treatment, the Heart Mate II.
In a randomized study reported in New England Journal of Medicine and presented at American Heart Association in November 2016, lead investigator Yoshifumi Naka, MD, PhD, reported fewer complications with the Heartmate 3, noting a marked improvement over Heartmate II.

The Structural Heart and Valve Center at NYP/Columbia has long been a leader in catheter-based treatment—the least invasive therapy—to repair the mitral valve. This valve regulates blood flow between the upper and the lower chambers on the left side of the heart. When it is damaged or defective, blood flows back up into the upper chamber, producing Mitral Regurgitation (MR).

Babies born with heart defects are now more likely to be successfully treated and grow into healthy adults. Yet this has created a new set of challenges: how to care for the first-generation who had childhood surgeries for congenital heart disease.

Today mitral valve repair has emerged as an alternative to valve replacement, and is linked to improved long-term survival in many patients.

(TAVR)—a minimally invasive method of replacing damaged aortic valves.

The Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center is a multidisciplinary program that offers patients essentially every treatment option.

With the proven preventability of heart disease, has it always been a major cause of death? Or are modern lifestyle and diet to blame?