WFUBMC Heart Center cardiologists and surgeons are considered national leaders in cardiovascular disease research and technology.

Funding for research from the American Heart Association, the National Institutes of Health, and industry totaled more than $4 million in 2008.

Research efforts include:

• Diagnosing heart failure earlier
• Looking at exercise training and tolerance
• Detecting heart damage via CMR imaging during chemotherapy
• Preserving cardiac function with heart failure
• Studying various medical therapies and procedures to prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases and events
• Implanted devices, ablations, and medical therapies to maintain heart rhythms

This research results in the Heart Center implementing the newest technology for our patients.

The Heart Center is participating in a $10 million, multi-center study to identify genes that might contribute to early atherosclerosis, funded by the NIH’s National Heart Lung and Blood Institute.