Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Your Health
Sean P. Pinney, MD, was recently named the first Director of Heart Failure and Transplantation for the Mount Sinai Health System. He will also continue to serve as Director of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation at The Mount Sinai Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he has led a number of clinical trials in heart failure, cardiac transplantation, and mechanical circulatory support. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Research, Your Health
Mount Sinai scientists and clinicians are making notable advances in the study and treatment of heart failure, a common condition that occurs when the heart becomes too weak to pump and circulate enough blood through the body. Diseases that damage the heart—such as coronary artery disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes—can lead to heart failure, which develops over time as the heart’s pumping action grows weaker. It impacts an estimated 5 million adults and children in this country. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Cardiology
Sean Pinney, MD, is Director of the Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation Program at The Mount Sinai Hospital. He shared his answers to some of the most frequently asked questions of heart failure patients.
1. My health practitioner thinks I may have heart failure. Why did my health practitioner order so many different tests? (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Cardiology, Diabetes, Exercise, Health Tips, Heart Disease, Holistic Health, Integrative Medicine, The Center for Health & Healing, Vascular Health
Can exercise replace drugs? A study recently published in BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) asked this question for four chronic conditions: coronary artery disease, pre-diabetes, stroke and heart failure. The study, which included more than 330,000 patients, was a “meta-analyses.” In other words, it compiled data from previously published controlled trials that looked at the effects of exercise or drug therapy on survival for the illnesses in question. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Cardiology, Inside, Research
The Mount Sinai Hospital is one of three institutions in New York State, and one of one hundred in the nation, selected to study the safety and effectiveness of an implantable cranial nerve stimulation device for heart failure patients with debilitating fatigue, shortness of breath, and heart arrhythmias.
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