Articles for Tag: "Advocate Christ Medical Center Heart and Vascular Institute"

Chilly approach to heart care 
Chilly approach to heart care
A new method using cold instead of heat may prove to be the best treatment for a common heart rhythm disorder.
Accident victim gets second chance at life  Featured
Accident victim gets second chance at life
Read the touching story of a patient who reunites with the nurse who helped save his life.
How William got his groove back—and his golf swing  Featured
How William got his groove back—and his golf swing
TAVR: It may sound foreign, but it’s the next big thing in heart care and it’s helping to heal plenty of hearts.
Heart surgery gets 100-year-old dancing again  Featured
Heart surgery gets 100-year-old dancing again
Doctors say Irene Vicich, a 100-year-old Chicago resident might be the “the oldest patient in the world” to undergo a new procedure to replace her aortic valve.
Students get rare view into live open-heart surgery 
Students get rare view into live open-heart surgery
Tired of telling your teen to sit up, eat right, don’t smoke, slow down and drive carefully? Perhaps some real face time with a physician performing surgery on an unhealthy heart might get the point across.
My heart will go on  Featured
My heart will go on
Leroy Haynes is the first Illinois patient to leave the hospital with a Total Artificial Heart. Here is his story.