Heart & Vascular News

The Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Hospital Heart and Vascular Center is a 2011 recipient of the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Mission: Lifeline Silver Award. The award recognizes the success of Barnes-Jewish and their physician partners at Washington University School of Medicine in providing quality care to heart attack patients.

A recommendation by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel could soon lead to approval of transcatheter aortic valve implantation.

Barnes-Jewish Hospital and its physician partners at Washington University School of Medicine is again the only St. Louis area hospital or medical institution listed among America’s elite medical centers in U.S. News & World Report’s list of “Best Hospitals,” while also ranking as the number one medical center in the St. Louis metro area.

For the first time ever in the history of Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, the departments of cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery and vascular surgery have joined together to form a new Heart & Vascular Center.

New guidelines issued from the American Heart Association add new risk factors to a woman’s risk of cardiovascular disease.