News
11/01/2018
NIH grant will allow Taben Hale, PhD, to study cardiac fibroblasts.
10/24/2018
A lab simulation model of an artificial artery in the Slepian Lab at the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center demonstrates “pulse wave velocity” is a feasible measurement for monitoring blood pressure. Wearable patches show promise for measuring PWV, making them a potentially inexpensive blood-pressure monitoring option.
10/11/2018
If you had a “silent” heart attack and didn’t know it, does it matter? Tushar Acharya, MD, assistant professor of medicine, and colleagues of the National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health, called unrecognized myocardial infarctions (MI) “an underappreciated public health problem.” The research team found that the combined risk of death, a subsequent nonfatal heart attack, and heart failure were similar at a 10-year follow up for both recognized and unrecognized MI. The unrecognized MIs were identified using cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR).
10/11/2018
The University of Arizona Structural Heart Disease Program team at Banner – University Medical Center Tucson, led by Kapil Lotun, MD, reached another milestone last week in completing the first-ever transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure on a patient with a bicuspid aortic valve utilizing only transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) to guide them. The procedure also was unique in that only a minimum of contrast dye was employed in final diagnoses preparations for the procedure and no CT (computed tomography) scan was used at all.
10/08/2018
The new faculty cardiologists bring expertise in cardiac imaging, cardio-oncology and interventional cardiology.
10/01/2018
An Advanced Electrophysiology Cardiac Catheterization Lab opened at the beginning of September. Banner – University Medical Center Tucson is the first hospital in Arizona with this state-of-the-art technology
10/01/2018
Sarver Heart Center welcomed three cardiologists to its faculty: Tushar Acharya, MD, Olivia Hung, MD, PhD, and Nader Makki, MD. They bring expertise in cardiac imaging, cardio-oncology and interventional cardiology.
08/31/2018
Dr. Khadijah Breathett, MD, MS, FACC a Black female advanced heart failure/transplant cardiologist can’t remember how many times her Black friends have lamented to her about the body mass index (BMI). “I show my patients and community members maps of obesity over the decades, and we have been getting wider. Just look at photos of your great and great-great grandparents and their more slender physiques: we have been getting wider overtime.”
08/28/2018
Free and open to the public, the lecture features UA Sarver Heart Center cardiologist, Dr. Charles Katzenberg, who will discuss the difference between preventing and treating chronic disease, advances in lifestyle medicine, acute and chronic inflammation, the emerging science about the microbiome and tools people can use to reduce disease risk.
08/27/2018
Giuliana Repetti, a University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson medical student (Class of 2020), is the first UA Wildcat to receive the prestigious Sarnoff Fellowship from the Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation.