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Adult Congenital Heart Disease: Meeting the next generation of challenges

Babies born with heart defects are now more likely to be successfully treated and grow into healthy adults. Yet this has created a new set of challenges: how to care for the first-generation who had childhood surgeries for congenital heart disease.
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Advances in Mitral Valve Surgery

Today mitral valve repair has emerged as an alternative to valve replacement, and is linked to improved long-term survival in many patients.
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The interventional cardiologist or surgeon places the artificial valve in the diseased valve and inflates the balloon
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TAVR: Minimally Invasive Approach for Aortic Stenosis

(TAVR)—a minimally invasive method of replacing damaged aortic valves.
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Valve Sparing Aortic Root Replacement

The David Operation allows surgeons to repair aortic root aneurysms while leaving the patient’s aortic valve intact.
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Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center at NYP/Columbia

The Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center is a multidisciplinary program that offers patients essentially every treatment option.
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Innovations in Aortic Surgery

Advancing the care of patients with complex aortic disease.
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25 Columbia Surgeons Named "Top Docs" of 2016 by NY Magazine

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Aortic Aneurysm Surgery

Cardiac and vascular surgeons collaborate to provide best in care
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Heart Disease Was Common in Ancient Egypt, Too

With the proven preventability of heart disease, has it always been a major cause of death? Or are modern lifestyle and diet to blame?
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Is It Possible To Lower High Blood Pressure Without Medication?

What can you do if you don’t want to rely solely on medication?
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