MedStar Health News

Clinton, MD – Interventional cardiologist, Sonia Samtani, MD, and an all-female team of specialists, performed the region’s first drug-coated balloon (DCB) angioplasty in April at MedStar ...

Composite samples of the MRI images that AStrID, the Acute Stroke Imaging Database, will draw on to advance research that promises to optimize stroke rehabilitation. Collaboration between Georgetown a...

Two patients at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital receive recently FDA-approved Evoque Tricuspid Valve Replacements for severe tricuspid regurgitation. BALTIMORE— In two separate procedures, MedSt...

CLINTON, Md. - MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital Center was re-designated a Maryland STEMI (ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction) Center, also known as a Cardiac Intervention Center (CIC), by the Maryl...

Innovative cardiac ablation zaps tissue to help heartbeat stay in rhythm. WASHINGTON – MedStar Washington Hospital Center is the first in the greater Washington and Baltimore regions to use an i...

Study examines if gene editing can help people living with transthyretin amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) WASHINGTON – The first U.S. heart patient involved in a study for a new gene-ed...