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Heart Care
Learn about the Innovative approaches that Duke cardiologists and cardiac surgeons use to care for people with heart disease.
Daughter and Mother Get Heart Transplants at Duke Two Years Apart
Carrie Hollander was just 31 years old when she was diagnosed with heart failure. Within three years, she needed a heart transplant. Since she was not a candid ...
Can a New Device Make More Hearts Available for Transplant?
Michael Woods’ heart and kidney disease were slowly worsening as he waited for a heart and kidney transplant in early 2020. With limited hearts available, he c ...
Considering Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement?
Many doctors and hospitals now offer transcatheter aortic valve replacement for aortic valve disease, but their experience and success rates vary. Here’s what ...
Fitness Trackers, Virtual Coaching Help Patients Stay Fit After Cardiac Rehab
Heart patients typically do well during cardiac rehab programs but tend to lose momentum once the formal gym-based regimens end. Duke Health researchers wanted ...
Winning Senior Olympic Gold After Heart Surgery and Cardiac Rehab
Dick Mazur of Raleigh was a fit 76-year-old planning to compete in the Senior Olympics for his third year in a row when his plans got waylaid. Diagnosed with a ...
When Heart Disease Runs in the Family
Anne Goodes knew her heart beat faster than normal, but it wasn’t until her local cardiologist detected a heart murmur that she discovered she was at risk for ...
Women's Intuition Detects Heart Trouble
In the early months of spring 2013, Suzanne Lambert felt overwhelming stress as she cared for her aging parents and helped to plan her daughter’s wedding. When ...
Research Focuses on Stem Cell Therapy for Heart Attack, Heart Failure
Can stem cells improve your heart’s function following heart damage? That’s the question behind several clinical trials at Duke. As leaders in cardiac stem cel ...
Divorce Increases Women's Heart Attack Risk
Divorce is bad for your heart -- especially if you’re a woman. According to new Duke research, women who have been divorced at least once are more likely to ex ...
Leadless Pacemakers, the Size of a Vitamin, Showing Promise
Investigational pacemakers -- the size of a small pen cap or vitamin pill -- are eliminating the need for painful surgical incisions and wires to connect the d ...
New Guidelines Recommend Blood Thinners for Women, People Over 65, with AFib
If you are a woman, or over 65, and have been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, new guidelines suggest blood-thinning drugs may reduce your risk for stroke. ...
Preventing Heart Disease When Family History Stacks the Deck
Kat Duke of Raleigh lost her entire family to heart disease: her mother, her father, her brother, and her half-sister. She was determined not to succumb to the ...