Cardiovascular Report (logo) Cardiovascular Report Winter 2023

News for Physicians from Johns Hopkins Medicine

Healthy Diet Lowers Preeclampsia Risk in Ethnically Diverse Cohort

New research provides evidence that socially influenced factors may affect racial disparities for pregnant women.

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Articles in this Issue

  • Changing Lives Through Cardiac Ablation

    Zeshan Ahmad, Johns Hopkins’ director of complex cardiac ablations for the National Capital Region, is among few in the mid-Atlantic region to perform certain procedures that improve atrial fibrillation and other arrhythmias.

    A 3-D reconstruction, the left image demonstrates the electrical activity of the heart prior to ablation and the right image demonstrates how the pulmonary veins have been isolated electrically (grey) from the rest of the heart after ablation.
  • Innovations in Adult Congenital Heart Disease

    As the new associate director of the Johns Hopkins Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center, Stacy Fisher sees ‘A Special Opportunity to Make a Difference.’

    Cardiologist Stacy Fisher helped to create a 3D model of a congenital heart to help guide formation and implant of a catheter-based stent to avoid open heart surgery for her patient who had a collateral vessel stealing coronary blood and diverting it into the pulmonary artery.