Heart/Lung videos
Treatment filters bad cholesterol out of blood For some patients who are genetically prone to extremely high levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol, diet, exercise, even drugs, aren't enough. Renowned cholesterol expert Anne Carol Goldberg discusses a sophisticated treatment option now available in St. Louis. The procedure, LDL aphersis, filters bad cholesterol out of the blood. Play >
2008/10/09
Clinic devoted to treating deadly, silent heart condition WUSM physician Keith Mankowitz directs the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Clinic at Washington University. It is one of the few clinics devoted solely to this heart disorder, which is a prominent cause of sudden death in young athletes. Play >
2008/05/01
Heart valve replacement without open-heart surgery Aortic stenosis, a narrowing of the aortic valve, affects more than 200,000 Americans each year. A new type of heart valve replacement being researched at Washington University School of Medicine may relieve this condition without the need for open-heart surgery. Play >
2008/01/17
Improving the age of your heart Whether subjects lost weight by dieting or by exercising didn't seem to matter in a recent cardiovascular study by Sándor Kovács and colleagues. Either way, the patients' heart function improved. Play >
2008/01/10
Immense new facility to house BioMed 21 research Dean Larry Shapiro and two Interdisciplinary Research Center directors, David Holtzman and Jean Shaffer, discuss the importance of the new BJC Institute of Health at Washington University and the BioMed 21 research it will support. Play >
2007/10/30
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