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Mitral Valve Repair Lets Marathon Runner Boogie at Son’s Wedding

November 22, 2011

By Nick Papas I had just completed the 2011 Pittsburgh Marathon. It was not my best time. There was no personal record that day. It was a day marked by a continued struggle with a chronic heel injury. But there was something more serious brewing in my body that day. It was a particularly strong [...]

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UMMC Heart-Liver Transplant Patient Promotes Organ Donation Awareness

August 1, 2011

By William Benamati UMMC Heart and Liver Transplant Recipient Editor’s Note: This post features excerpts from William Benamati’s CaringBridge site, which was created to keep his friends and family updated on his struggle with familial amyloidosis disease and his heart-liver transplant that was done at the University of Maryland Medical Center on February 21, 2011. [...]

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Mitral Valve Surgery: Why We Operate on the Heart from the Right Side

July 6, 2011

The launch of our new minimally invasive mitral valve surgery print ad, which has appeared in many publications, including The Washington Post Magazine, has generated several e-mails and blog posts from people questioning the accuracy of the image, which features a chest with the incision location – under the right breast – highlighted. Dr. James [...]

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UMMC Heart Transplant Recipient Portrayed in New Film

June 29, 2011

Casey Towers, a young mother of two from Waldorf, Md., received a heart transplant at the University of Maryland Medical Center in 2006 after she was diagnosed with peripartum cardiomyopathy, a rare heart condition related to her pregnancy. She later learned the identity of her donor — Luke Abbate, a high school athlete who was [...]

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Aortic Valve Surgery Patient & Great Grandfather’s Moving Update

January 31, 2011

By Jack Myers Editor’s Note: Jack Myers wrote a blog post about his successful aortic valve surgery in early January of 2010. Below is an update he recently sent to his surgeon, Dr. Jamie Brown. Dr. Brown, It has been a little over a year since my surgery. As you can see my little boys [...]

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Virginia Woman Shares Story of Her Successful Mitral Valve Repair

January 6, 2011

Virginia resident Elizabeth Norris never suspected anything was wrong with her heart. However, the results of an echocardiography test and cardiac catheterization indicated she had severe mitral valve regurgitation and needed surgery to correct the problem. Her physician referred her to Dr. James Gammie at the University of Maryland Medical Center, an expert in mitral [...]

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Aortic Valve Surgery Patient’s Wife: “We Have a New Lease on Life”

July 14, 2010

By Beth Batdorf Editor’s Note: On February 15, 2010, John Bresland had minimally invasive aortic valve replacement surgery at the UM Heart Center. Nine weeks later, he enjoyed a vacation with his wife, where he was able to play golf, swim and hike. Below, his wife, Beth Batdorf, tells the story from her perspective. To [...]

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Running for Children With Heart Problems

June 11, 2010

By Geoffrey Rosenthal Director, Children’s Heart Program I am (stupidly) a daily runner. The last day I missed was, I believe, September 11, 2007. I’ll need to revisit my log to be sure. Anyway, I was coming clean about this obsession with one of my nephews recently and he did a quick computation. He calculated [...]

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Mitral Valve Surgery Patient Shares His UMMC Experience

May 18, 2010

By David Kubiatowicz Editor’s Note: This post features excerpts from a post David — shown at right with his wife, Rose — published on his own blog on May 11. It was 4 years ago today (May 11) that I went under the knife at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore for “minimally [...]

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Exercise Tips for Heart Health

February 19, 2010

By Michael Miller, M.D. Director, UM Center for Preventive Cardiology Most of us can improve our heart health simply with moderate exercise. For example, 30 minutes of brisk walking (3-4 miles per hour) 6 days a week has been shown to reduce the risk of a heart attack by about 30%. A great and inexpensive [...]

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