May 9, 2024
Economic Backbone: Cardiac Care
A Growing Need
Lynda Neuhausen was walking with her family up the stairs to their seats at Tropicana Field to watch the Tampa Bay Rays play when her symptoms first began. “I got to the top and had turned gray,” she recounts, “I couldn't breathe ... and I felt like I was going to pass out.” That moment in 2005 was the beginning of a long journey towards diagnosing and treating hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a genetic heart disease, which culminated in a heart transplant in 2021.
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Published on 2/27/2024
Unlocking Stem Cells' Cardiac Benefits
More than 20 years ago, University of Miami heart transplant cardiologist Joshua Hare became convinced that stem cells infused into heart attack patients would turn into new, healthy cells to replace damaged ones. So far, that hasn't happened. But Hare, founding director of the university's Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute, still believes that stem cells represent a future in which cardiac care involves less medication and fewer surgeries.
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Published on 2/26/2024
A Second Chance at Life
One Friday night in 2019, Roy Reid fell asleep on the couch while watching a movie. “At about two in the morning, I wake up with the worst pain I've ever had in my life — as if someone had punched a hole through my chest,” Reid says. “I run into the bedroom, wake up my wife and say, ‘I think I'm having a heart attack, we need to get to the emergency room.'”
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Published on 2/26/2024
AI's Emerging Role in Cardiac Care
Sumit Verma is a board-certified specialist in cardiac electrophysiology and cardiovascular disease with Baptist Health Care in Pensacola. In a recent interview with FLORIDA TREND, he discussed the impact that...
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Published on 2/20/2024
Detecting Trouble
The sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) incidents with Buffalo Bills football player Damar Hamlin and college basketball player Bronny James brought national attention to the often-fatal heart problem. Without quick CPR or automatic external defibrillator use to get the heart beating again, 90% of people who go into SCA outside of a hospital will die.
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Published on 2/15/2024
Problem Solver
As a kid in Argentina, Jose Navia recalls, he liked finding ways to fix broken things around the house. He also was exposed to the world of medicine. His mother was a midwife. His uncle was a cardiac surgeon.
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Published on 2/14/2024
A Window on Risk
Pregnancy is hard on the body, with 10-15% of women experiencing a complication themselves or with their baby. In some ways, pregnancy is essentially a stress test for the mother, with the potential to forecast significant health risks down the road.
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Published on 2/14/2024
Heart Health
Approximately two in 10 deaths in Florida are caused by heart disease, making it the No. 1 killer in the state.
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Published on 2/12/2024
