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Health and Wellness | July 26, 2018

Protect Your Heart Like It Was Your Home

An infographic illustrates how the heart can be described like a house with four chambers, plumbing and electrical system. When the heart needs repair, a cardiologist, interventional cardiologist, electrophysiologist or cardiovascular surgeon may be asked to help treat your heart.
Why is the heart like a house? See how an interventional cardiologist is like a plumber, and an electrophysiologist like an electrician.
Scripps in the News | July 10, 2018

Scripps Heart Transplant Patient Lauds Use of LVAD to Keep Him Alive

Thomas Heywood, MD, treating LVAD heart patient Scott Fitzgerald
Heart transplant patient Scott Fitzgerald was featured on 10News, Ivanhoe News, and San Diego Magazine explaining how the use of the LVAD helped save his life.
Health and Wellness | May 29, 2018

LVADs, Pacemakers and How One Woman Is Thriving After a Heart Transplant (podcast)

A heart failure patient holds an LVAD device that has been implanted to keep the patient's heart functioning while a new heart becomes available for a heart transplant.
Heart failure patient Darla Calvet and cardiologist Thomas Heywood discuss how the LVAD helped keep her heart working while she waited for a heart transplant.
Health and Wellness | May 22, 2018

LVAD Buys Time, Saves Lives When Heart Failure Strikes (video)

Cardiologist Thomas Heywood, MD, and patient Darla Calvet sat down with San Diego Health host Susan Taylor to discuss how Calvet overcame heart failure with help from a heart device known as LVAD.
A heart device known as LVAD helped keep Scripps patient Darla Calvet alive while she waited for a heart transplant to overcome her heart failure condition.
News Releases | May 18, 2018

Scripps Enrolls First Local Patient for Heart Failure Device Trial

The interatrial shunt device is an experimental device designed to relieve symptoms from heart failure.
Scripps enrolled the first local patient in an international clinical trial of an interatrial shunt device designed to relieve heart failure symptoms.
Scripps in the News | November 13, 2017

Baseball Great Rod Carew Says He's Thankful to be Alive at Conference

Scripps heart care physicians and experts gather to celebrate baseball legend Rod Carew's life and successful recovery.
Baseball great Rod Carew was recently profiled in a news article by the American Heart Association. Carew credits Scripps for helping to save his life.
Scripps in the News | April 19, 2017

Rod Carew Press Conference Features Scripps Cardiologist

Scripps heart failure specialist Ajay Srivastava, MD, recently participated in a press conference with Scripps cardiology patient Rod Carew.
Scripps in the News | February 8, 2017

Media Cover New Women's Heart Support Group in Rancho Bernardo

B Verde, Leader, Scripps Clinic Rancho Bernardo Women's Heart Support Group
A new Scripps Clinic Rancho Bernardo support group for women with heart problems was covered by the Poway Patch recently.
Scripps in the News | January 26, 2017

MedCity News Interviews Cardiologist About Experimental Heart Pump

Stethoscope on top of white lab coat, symbolizing heart health.
Ajay Srivastava, MD, a cardiologist with Scripps Clinic, says a robotic heart sleeve tested in animals shows promise for treating humans with heart failure.
News Releases | January 16, 2017

Double Heart Attack Survivor Launches Women’s Heart Support Group at Scripps Clinic Rancho Bernardo

Scripps heart patient Bertha "B" Verde.
A year and a half after surviving two heart attacks, Scripps patient Bertha Verde is launching a support group for women like her.