You know the importance of exercise. You’re well aware of its value in maintaining your health. You likely even prescribe it regularly to your patients. But are you following doctor’s orders?
Category: Heart & Vascular (Page 7)
Interventional cardiologist Scott Lim, MD, explains the advantages of the AMPLATZER™ PFO Occluder device, which was recently approved by the FDA and is now available at UVA.
UVA Heart & Vascular Center welcomed its first patients at its new location at Fontaine Research Park, which is easily accessible and has free parking.
The robot allows for improvements in precision and measuring that really couldn’t be performed before. It also removes the radiation risk and ergonomic discomfort involved in performing coronary angioplasties.
Learn more about their clinical areas of focus and why they chose to stay at UVA.
UVA’s skilled team of cardiologists, heart surgeons, nurses and therapists provide comprehensive care and monitoring to complex heart patients.
The “metabolic crystal ball” provides differing weights for the traditional risk factors and also takes into account race, gender and ethnicity to produce an easy-to-understand metabolic severity score.
In addition to high blood pressure, smoking and diabetes, it’s important not to overlook stress as a leading cause of heart disease.
Thanks to a recent series of grants, UVA Atrial Fibrillation Center has now acquired some of the most advanced technology available to treat this common heart rhythm disorder.
UVA accepts all emergent stroke, STEMI and aortic emergencies 24/7 and is never on divert for true emergencies.