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State-of-the-heart
May 25th, 2010 Dr. Renzo Cecere, MUHC director of the Mechanical Heart Assist Program and MUHC surgical director of the Heart Failure and Heart Transplant Program, was the first surgeon in Canada in 2002 to implant a longterm mechanical heart device as …
Cardiology Grand Rounds honours the Women's Healthy Heart Initiative on its first anniversary.
June 2nd, 2010 Wendy Wray, Nurse Director - Womens Healthy Heart Initiative, MUHC The Women’s Healthy Heart Initiative (WHHI) heart disease prevention clinic is part of the MUHC Women’s Health Initiative. The goal of this project is to increase the …
Growth of cardiology care responds to the burden of health
June 30th, 2010 “From around 900 BCE (before the Common Era) to the early 20th century, life expectancy increased by a decade, from about 33 to 43 years of age,” says Dr. Jacques Genest, McGill University Heath Centre (MUHC ) director of Cardiology. “In …
MUHC honored to perform first procedure using new coronary angioplasty tool
December 15th, 2016 Releases Dr. Stéphane Rinfret, chief of the catheterization laboratories at the MUHC MONTREAL - The Interventional Cardiology Service of the McGill University Health Center (MUHC) had the honor of hosting representatives of the …
Q & A with our experts - Dr. Stéphane Rinfret, cardiologist
September 27th, 2016 Articles In spite of its name, a cath lab isn’t a laboratory at all, but a department in a hospital where life-saving cardiac procedures are carried out 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Dr. Stéphane Rinfret, chief of the …
Living the good life at 78
September 27th, 2016 Articles Guy Dorion, 78, has always loved to play sports. Every summer, he would spend hours playing tennis and golf, and in winter he enjoyed downhill and cross-country skiing. But last December the Trois-Rivières resident was forced …
No cases of infection observed at the MUHC related to the use of heater-cooler devices during open-heart surgery
October 25th, 2016 Releases Yesterday, the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) advised its patients, who have undergone open-heart surgery, that there is a very small risk of bacterial infection associated from certain machines (heater-cooler devices) used …
What is high Lipoprotein(a), and should I be concerned?
February 22nd, 2017 Releases Montreal – A team of researchers from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center (RI-MUHC) found that elevations in a unusual form of cholesterol, called Lipoprotein(a) or Lp(a), as responsible for 1 in 14 …
The MAUDE Unit at the Glen: an ideal environment to welcome young adults with congenital heart disease
February 13th, 2015 Articles The Maude Unit celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2015! “We have created an environment where young patients with congenital heart disease feel at home,” says Cardiologist and MAUDE Director Dr. Ariane Marelli. When …
New heart failure implant ends “clash of technologies”
July 17th, 2017 Releases Montreal – A patient from the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) with heart failure has successfully received a Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Defibrillator (CRT-D) that will allow him to safely undergo full-body magnetic …