Seven years ago, Andrea Marrie unexpectedly became a heart transplant candidate when she was found teetering at the precipice of end stage heart failure. A healthy and vivacious young woman who was just twenty-two years old, nobody anticipated Andrea to ...

When asked about the benefits of Bluewater Health’s new model for acute stroke care, members of the care team agree: “The results are impressive,” says Nancy Hubbard, Charge Nurse, Acute Stroke and Telemetry Medicine Unit. “We’re seeing much better patient ...

In an innovative use of telemedicine technology, interventional cardiologists from the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre and St. Michael’s Hospital collaborated on a best practices course in complex, minimally-invasive cardiac interventional procedures on May 3 and 4 to a group of ...

When patient David Northey runs into difficulty managing his heart failure, he knows he can call the Heart Function Clinic at St. Mary’s General Hospital in Kitchener and often be seen the same day. This quick access to a highly-skilled, multidisciplinary ...

The Heart Program for Women at BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre helps women at risk for developing heart disease and tries to prevent the need for a major medical intervention in the future. “We set out to provide a program ...

Standing in Vincent’s hospital room you can hear his heart beat. It makes a loud sloshing noise. It’s not his real heart. That’s pretty much dead. The noise is the sound of his temporary mechanical heart. If you stand close ...

The number of genes known to be associated with heart disease keeps rising. Common genetic variants have been identified that are associated with coronary artery disease, cholesterol levels, hypertension, diabetes, and other risk factors. Yet, to date, cardiovascular genetics has had ...

Sunnybrook’s Schulich Heart Centre has developed a successful multidisciplinary strategy for greatly reducing the need for blood transfusions in primary elective coronary artery bypass grafting, commonly known as heart bypass surgery that is planned in advance. “We took it upon ourselves ...

Just as “It takes a village to raise a child,” the team at Markham Stouffville Hospital believes it takes a community to ensure good long-term cardiac health, including an evolving and growing role for local community hospitals. “The way cardiac care ...

An innovative procedure called an aortic valve annuloplasty was successfully carried out at the Montreal Heart Institute saving the life of a young man in his thirties. This North American first was performed by cardiac surgeon Dr. Ismail El-Hamamsy, who ...