Category: Heart & Vascular (Page 7)

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.

UVA cardiologists, radiologists and biomedical engineers are collaborating to expand on and develop new imaging techniques for cardiac patients.

Robinson specializes in complex lower extremity bypass and endovascular therapy for PAD, aortic aneurysm disease, cerebrovascular disease and hemodialysis access.

There are a number of trials available at UVA for vascular disease, providing additional options to patients who otherwise have few alternatives.

When determining where best to refer a patient for valve procedures, accessibility is just one consideration.