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Heart Services
HOW DO
OUR PATIENTS CHOOSE A HEART HOSPITAL?
They look for experience.
Studies in the New England Journal of Medicine confirm
that hospitals with experience - high volumes of given
procedures - have better patient outcomes.
 Our experience speaks
for itself -
We have the busiest heart catheterization center in the U.S, performing more than 19,000 procedures per year.
We perform more than 1,750 coronary artery bypass operations per year, with more than 50 percent performed on the beating heart, a significantly higher percentage than other hospitals in the region.
We have an unrivaled research capability � our Cardiovascular Research Institute, dedicated to uncovering best practices in heart and vascular care, is part of the MedStar Research Institute, a regionally acclaimed hub of state-of-the-art research protocols and clinical trials.
We have the most experienced arrhythmia program
throughout the region, offering new treatments for atrial fibrillation and
congestive heart failure, two of the most common and difficult-to-treat heart
disorders.
We use leading edge tool and techniques -
We apply CT scanning for heart redo surgery and cardiac MRI for heart remodeling to achieve pinpoint accuracy.
We leverage our expertise in diagnostic echocardiography to diagnose complicated heart conditions, such as valve disease and heart failure.
Our expertise is
unrivaled -
Our Cardiac Surgery Program, one the most progressive in the country, is a referral center for some of the nation's most complex heart cases.
In bypass surgery we use the SPY Angiogram, a new technology to allow us to take pictures of the veins during surgery to ensure perfect bypass grafts.
We use the Maze Procedure, a new type of surgical procedure, to help correct atrial fibrillations (irregular heart rhythms).
We perform minimally invasive surgery (surgery through a small incision hole) to avoid fully opening a patient�s chest and use vein harvesting through endoscopic (small-incision) surgery instead of making large cuts through the patient�s leg � both which produce quicker recovery times.
It is this expertise and experience in heart treatment
and our reliance on outcomes-based protocols with more than 50,000 patients in
our database, that enables our heart specialists to deliver outstanding care.
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Last updated: 09-27-2007
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