Search Results < Yale School of Medicine

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Latest Tech in Clinical Grafts? A ‘Universal’ Blood Vessel
Yale doctors have developed a way to create vascular grafts from stem cells that are as strong as the original blood vessels they would replace.
16 Jan 2020
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Air Pollution’s Tiny Particles May Trigger Nonfatal Heart Attacks, Study Finds
A Yale-affiliated scientist finds that even a few hours’ exposures to ambient ultrafine particles common in air pollution may potentially trigger a nonfatal heart attack.
15 Jan 2020
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Heart Patients in China May Be Receiving Substandard Hospital Care
“This is an important evaluation of the state of heart failure care in China—and it identifies ample areas for improvement,” says co-senior author Harlan Krumholz.
8 Jan 2020
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Tariq Ahmad to Serve on the Faculty Advisory Council
Tariq Ahmad has been elected to represent Yale Cardiovascular Medicine on the Faculty Advisory Council.
4 Dec 2019
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New Model for Predicting Kidney Injury After Common Heart Procedure
A Yale-led group of doctors has developed a new mathematical model that can predict the risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients undergoing a common heart procedure.
30 Nov 2019
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Meet Yale Internal Medicine: Erica Spatz, MD, MHS, Associate Professor (Cardiovascular Medicine)
As part of our “Meet Yale Internal Medicine” series, today’s featured faculty is Erica Spatz, MD, MHS, associate professor (cardiovascular medicine).
26 Nov 2019
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Krumholz Receives the American Heart Association's Clinical Research Prize
Krumholz was recognized “for his work as a founding leader in the field of outcomes research. His work has led to improvements in the quality of care and outcomes for millions of patients nationwide and beyond,” said American Heart Association President Robert A. Harrington, MD, FAHA.
19 Nov 2019
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Improving the Odds for Patients With Heart Pumps
A new Yale study shows that some patients being treated for severe heart failure with a battery-operated pump saw significant improvement after additionally using neurohormonal blockade (NHB) drug therapy.
18 Nov 2019
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Hypertension Drugs Do Not Work Equally Well for All, Reports Big-Data Study
A Yale co-authored study reveals that angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors may not be the best choice for initial treatment of hypertension.
25 Oct 2019
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$2M Federal Funding for Stem Cell-Based Therapy
Yibing Qyang, PhD, has received $2 million in peer-reviewed medical research funding. The project proposes to use hiPSC-derived heart muscle cells to improve the pumping activity of tissue-engineered pulsatile conduits.
20 Oct 2019
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Study Explores Why Caribbean Adults Have Higher Hypertension Rates
Adult populations in the Caribbean, mirroring black populations in the U.S., experience higher rates of hypertension, stroke, and heart disease, and researchers want to know why.
17 Oct 2019
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Why A Heart Attack Should Not Disqualify Someone From Being President
Last week politics and medicine intersected with news that Bernie Sanders had a heart attack. For the campaign there are questions of what it means for his candidacy.
8 Oct 2019
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Yale Offers New Medication for Fatal Disease
Yale Medicine physicians were the first in Connecticut to offer a new medication for hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis (hATTR), a life-threatening genetic mutation that causes transport proteins called transthyretin to cluster together and deposit amyloids in the peripheral nerves, heart, kidney, and gastrointestinal tract.
7 Oct 2019
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New Expectations
De Motu Cordis is a reference to William Harvey’s 1628 treatise that first described the circulation of the blood pumped by the heart.
7 Oct 2019
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NIH Grants Fund Image-Guided Therapy After a Heart Attack
A team of researchers from the Yale School of Medicine and the University of Washington will use ultrasound to guide the delivery of theranostic hydrogels into the heart to prevent dilation of the heart post-MI and subsequent heart failure.
7 Oct 2019
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What’s New In Structural Heart Disease?
The Yale Structural Heart Team became the first program in Connecticut to perform a transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR).
7 Oct 2019
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A Physician's Guide to Stroke Prevention
Yale has been a leader in ongoing research to determine which patients could benefit most from WATCHMAN.
7 Oct 2019
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New Consensus for Managing Patients Hospitalized with Heart Failure
The American Heart Association estimates that by 2030 more than 8 million Americans will be diagnosed with chronic heart failure (HF). This condition may lead to kidney failure, liver damage, and other complications. The 2019 American College of Cardiology report provides clinical tools to improve the management of HF patients.
24 Sep 2019
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The Genetic Origins of Sex Differences in Disease
Women's Health Research at Yale is launching a genome-wide association study to uncover the genetic origins of sex differences in disease.
17 Sep 2019
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2019 Early Career Investigator Honorees
The American Heart Association (AHA) selected three Yale physicians as finalists for the Early Career Investigator Awards.
16 Sep 2019