About Penn Cardiac Care
Most of us don't think about our heart and the
incredible job it does each day. Over an average
lifetime, the heart beats 2.5 billion times -
that's one beat per second of every minute of
every day. Although it's a strong, powerful organ,
the heart is susceptible to disease and trauma.
Some people are born with defects of the heart,
while others develop problems over a lifetime.
With Penn Cardiac Care, you get the most advanced,
comprehensive heart care available in the Philadelphia
region. Penn Cardiac Care's team of heart specialists
are experienced and knowledgeable
about all aspects of your heart's health-from
arrhythmias and cholesterol to transplant and
bypass surgery. In fact the Hospital of the University
of Pennsylvania is one of the top five leading
hospitals for heart
transplantation and has performed
more heart transplants in the past three years
than any other center in the Delaware Valley.
Our Penn Cardiac Care specialists utilize the
latest technology available to pinpoint and treat
all types of heart problems from the most common
to the most complex. Our approach encompasses
not only care of our patients, but also research
to discover the treatments of tomorrow.
Penn
Cardiac Care Ranked 12th in Nation |
Penn
Cardiac Care at the Hospital of the University
of Pennsylvania has been ranked
12th in the nation, and best in the Philadelphia
region, for heart care and heart surgery
by U.S.News & World Report's
2008 Best Hospitals ranking. |
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Penn
Doctor Studies Faster Test to Diagnose
Heart Attack |
The
Hospital of University of Pennsylvania
was part of a study to test a new bedside
device. It tests a patient's blood for
markers (level of cardiac enzymes) that
signal heart attack.
Without the new bedside device, nurses have to draw the blood, send it to the
lab a then wait. Read
more about Dr. Hollanders' research... |
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Penn
Doctor gets $3M grant for new heart treatment |
Dr.
Charles Bridges is working to develop a
new treatment for heart failure. Bridges,
associate professor of surgery at the University
of Pennsylvania Medical Center and chief
of cardiothoracic surgery at Pennsylvania
Hospital, was awarded a $3 million grant
from the National Heart, Lung and Blood
Institute for his work in "molecular
cardiac surgery." Read more about Dr. Bridges'
research... |
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46-Year-Old Man Receives First Temporary Total Artificial Heart in Northeast U.S. From Penn Cardiac Surgeons |
A 46-year-old
former fitness instructor, suffering from
biventricular end-stage
heart
failure and
in irreversible cardiogenic
shock,
has become the first to receive a new temporary
Total Artificial Heart in the Northeast
U.S. Learn
more about this breakthrough... |
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Penn Cardiac Care physicians are nationally recognized:
 In
2008, U.S. News & World Report ranked Penn
Cardiac Care at the Hospital
of the University of Pennsylvania as best
in the Philadelphia region for heart care and
heart surgery.
 In
2008, Penn
Cardiac Care at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center is
the only hospital in Philadelphia to be selected
as one of the nation's "100 Top Hospitals" for
cardiovascular care.
The Best Doctors in America lists more
cardiologists
and cardiothoracic surgeons from
University of Pennsylvania Health System than
any from any other hospital or health system in
the Delaware Valley.
For cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, Philadelphia
Magazine's 2007 Top
Docs issue cited more
physicians and surgeons from Penn Cardiac
Care than from any other hospital or health
system in the region.
According to the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost
Containment Council (PAHC4) March 2005 report,
the cardiac surgery team at Penn led the Eastern
Pennsylvania region in total
volume for cardiothoracic surgery for the
year 2003.
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