Allina News

[Star Tribune, May 21, 2010] For more than two years, doctors knew they had to replace Amund Hendricks’ diseased aortic valve. Trouble was, they couldn’t. Hendricks, 84, was not considered healthy enough this time to surgically replace the valve. All Hendricks’ physician, Dr. Wesley Pedersen, at Allina Health‘s Minneapolis Heart Institute, could do was monitor [...]

[HealthDay, May 11, 2012] A new treatment that involves spinning bone marrow stem cells to enhance their healing potential may help people with advanced heart failure feel and function better, a small study suggests. Researchers developed the treatment by culturing a patient’s own bone marrow for 12 days. This process helped increase the amount of [...]

[Minnesota Public Radio, April 26, 2012] University of Minnesota Gophers football player Gary Tinsley died of an enlarged heart April 6, according to a Hennepin County Medical Examiner report released Wednesday. Minneapolis Heart Institute researcher Dr. David Feldman told Tom Crann of All Things Considered that the condition could be caused by factors including genetic [...]

[KARE 11, April 10, 2012] Are you heart healthy? Would you know what symptoms need to be checked to make sure? You can find out at the upcoming ’From Table to Ticker‘ event at the Galleria. Allina’s Dr. Elizabeth Grey of the Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital previewed the event on KARE 11 Today, [...]

[CBS, April 1, 2012] Statistically, fewer than one percent of all medical devices fail their patients – far fewer, in fact. Small comfort if one of those very rare failures strikes you or me or someone you love. CBS Sunday Morning examined one of those cases and how it lead Allina cardiologist Robert Hauser at [...]

[Minnesota Public Radio, March 26, 2012] There’s new research showing that people suffering from heart disease might be able to use their own stem cells to repair the damaged areas of their heart. The study was conducted by a network of five research facilities, including the Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. Timothy Henry, [...]

[Fox 9 News, March 25, 2012] Former vice president Dick Cheney is recovering Sunday after getting a new heart. While getting a transplant at 70 is unusual according to the doctor we spoke with, its not unheard of. So what is the process and what is the feeling waiting for a heart? Watch the story [...]

[WCCO-TV, March 13, 2012] In a world where heart failure’s an epidemic, doctors say there’s now a game-changer in their fight. Starting Tuesday, doctors at a Twin Cities hospital started what they call a less-invasive alternative to open-heart surgery. WCCO-TV went inside the operation room at Abbott Northwestern Hospital to show the procedure that is [...]

[Minnesota Public Radio, Feb. 14, 2012] A prominent Minneapolis cardiologist, Robert Hauser, MD, says St. Jude Medical isn’t doing enough to study how to treat patients whose implanted heart rhythm devices could fail due to faulty equipment. Hauser, with the Minneapolis Heart Institute® at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, writes in the current issue of the New England [...]

[KSTP TV, Feb. 7, 2012] The Centers for Disease Control says nine out of 10 adult Americans get too much salt in their diet, and from surprising sources. Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation registered dietician Laura Perdue talked with KSTP News about how to manage your salt intake. Watch the interview here.

[Heartwire.com, January 20, 2012] A meeting of the minds in Minneapolis today aims, in part, to figure out what to do with the thousands of people in the US—about 79 000, according to St Jude Medical—who remain fitted with the company’s “recalled” St Jude Medical Riata or Riata ST implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) leads. There remains a [...]

[Wall Street Journal, Jan. 12, 2012] Long-distance runners can breathe a little easier. Scattered reports of heart-related deaths during marathons and half marathons over the past few years have prompted questions about the safety of the events. But a study of participants over more than a decade found only a tiny risk of cardiac arrest [...]