For people with congestive heart failure, the development of an irregular heartbeat or arrhythmia called atrial fibrillation can increase the risk of death. An international study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, led by Montreal’s Heart Institute investigated the two options usually employed to control atrial fibrillation to keep patients healthy under these [...]

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A new surgical procedure being performed at the Heart Centre of St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver is transforming the lives of patients too sick to undergo conventional treatment to replace diseased aortic valves. The results of this new technique were presented at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2007, co-hosted by the Heart and Stroke Foundation and [...]

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People who can’t have life-saving diagnostic tests because of their pacemakers might have a scan-worthy device in years to come. An international clinical trial of a pacemaker system, the Medtronic EnRhythm MRI SureScan pacing system, will be conducted at the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria, Foothills HSC in Calgary, Hopital Laval in Quebec, Montreal Heart [...]

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Is there another method to repair a child’s defective heart valve other than invasive surgery? Two Montreal cardiologists went to London, England to learn a new technique that accomplishes just that. The procedure, called percutaneous pulmonary valve implant, replaces open-heart surgery, and was performed in February this year by Montreal cardiologists Giuseppe Martucci and Adrian [...]

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