Featured Story Atrial Fibrillation: Saying Goodbye to Blood Thinners
Nonpharmacologic treatment approaches can significantly reduce the risk of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation when blood thinners are not an option.
Winter 2017
News for Physicians from Johns Hopkins Medicine
Articles in this Issue
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A Cohesive Path to Managing Peripheral Artery Disease
Personalized care with a team approach can help preserve limbs, function and quality of life for patients with peripheral artery disease.
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Getting to the Heart of Inherited Cardiac Disease
Heritable heart conditions can genetically predispose patients to sudden cardiac death. Johns Hopkins clinicians at the Center for Inherited Heart Disease take a multidisciplinary approach to helping patients and their families to identify and manage their cardiac conditions.
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Collaborative Effort Saves Teen with Traumatic Brain Injury
Working together closely, Johns Hopkins’ cardiovascular surgical intensive care unit and neuroscience critical care unit teams shepherded a critically injured teenager on life support to a full recovery.
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Jennifer Lawton Appointed Cardiac Surgery Chief
A specialist in off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery, Jennifer Lawton has published widely on women and heart disease, among other research interests.
