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Heart Surgery Audio Programs

Specialized Care for Patients and Family Members with Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease
In this podcast, Dr. Jyothy Puthumana explains how individuals born with bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) may be at risk for future valve damage and aortic aneurysms. Complications include narrowing of...
by Patient Power | 02/21/2012
Treatment Options for Advanced Heart Failure
Heart failure--when the heart is no longer able to pump oxygen-rich blood to the rest of the body--affects 5 million Americans, with more than 500,000 new cases every year. Although...
by Patient Power | 07/12/2011
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
In this podcast, Dr. Davidson will discuss the symptoms, treatments and prognosis for aortic stenosis. He also will discuss a new technology used to treat this condition called Transcatheter Aortic...
by Patient Power | 02/22/2011
The Latest in the Treatment of Advanced Heart Failure
If you have heart failure, the wait for a heart transplant can be long and risky.  Fortunately, progress in transplant and ventricular assist devices (VADs) are helping to replace the...
by Patient Power | 02/21/2011
Understanding Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome is when the left side of the heart, the part that pumps oxygenated blood to the rest of the body, is underdeveloped. In this program a...
by Patient Power | 06/24/2010
Benefits of Ventricular Assist Devices (VADs)
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by Patient Power | 01/19/2010
Advances in Heart Transplant
A heart transplant can be life-extending and certainly lifesaving. Since 1985, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) has performed more than 500 heart transplants. Twelve of these patients have passed...
by Patient Power | 10/21/2009
Benefits of Ventricular Assist Devices (VADs)
If you have heart failure, the wait for a heart transplant can be long and risky. Luckily, new advances in Ventricular Assist Devices (VADs) are helping to replace the function...
by Patient Power | 10/14/2009
Coronary Artery Stents vs. Bypass Surgery: What are the Considerations?
If your arteries are narrowed or blocked should you have stents put in? Do you have coronary artery bypass surgery? Can medications do the trick? In this ihealth webcast, Dr....
by Patient Power | 02/10/2009
Heart Attack Recovery: Understanding the World's Smallest Heart Pump
New sophisticated cardiac devices are assisting patients with serious circulatory issues. These patients are at risk for coronary heart disease and blockages, among many other complications. On this episode of...
by Patient Power | 02/04/2009
TECAB: Totally Endoscopic Robotic Bypass Surgery
Totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass (TECAB) is a minimally invasive procedure that is used to perform coronary artery bypass grafting operation. This cutting-edge procedure performed at few centers in the...
by Patient Power | 01/13/2009
The Latest in Pediatric Heart Surgery and Research
On this episode of Patient Power, Dr. Stephen Langley and Matthew Kish join Andrew Schorr for an engaging discussion on how the latest pediatric heart surgery research is allowing young...
by Patient Power | 12/03/2008
Heart Disease in Women: A Focus on Women's Cardiac Health
Women’s cardiac health often gets overlooked by the media. Some illnesses such as reproductive health and menopause receive a lot of attention, and the importance of heart disease prevention is...
by Patient Power | 01/22/2008
Heavy Heart and Sudden Death: Who is at Greater Risk?
Often times we think of death as a late life inevitable occurrence, but the reality is, it can happen at any given moment. One condition that gives no forewarning is...
by Patient Power | 11/19/2007
Advances in Heart Surgery
by Patient Power | 07/16/2006
Preventing Heart Failure
Heart failure is an inefficiency of the heart’s ability to pump; it is often related to the weakening of the heart muscle from an injury. Joining Patient Power for a...
by Patient Power | 01/15/2006