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Social @ UHN Education course targets global leaders in

rapidly-advancing cardiac specialty

Structural heart disease intervention is a specialized born with heart defects as well as those who encounter
field within cardiology that is still in its infancy for cardiac abnormalities affecting the heart’s vessels or
many healthcare professionals. But it’s growing quickly valves later in life.
20,176 9,749 36,785 and not-so-quietly. These procedures are performed in a cardiac

“It’s a very fast-paced field, where you need to be at catheterization laboratory or hybrid operating room
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the forefront of all the information and there is so and involve percutaneous (through the skin) access

much information coming out with respect to new via a needle puncture and using catheters, guidewires
University Health Network technologies, novel applications, how to perform and other minimally-invasive devices.
@UHN the procedure,” says Dr. Mark Osten, interventional “There are things we do pretty routinely in the
cardiologist, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre (PMCC),
Parkinson’s disease no match for these and one of the medical experts leading the Toronto pediatric laboratory on children that are unusual in
dancing queens: bit.ly./2ooK25R Course in Congenital and Structural Heart Disease adult congenital lesions, but as these children grow,
people are going to have to be trained in order to take
#WorldParkinsonsDay @ParkinsonCanada Intervention. “It’s fine to read it in a textbook, but care of them in a very sophisticated way,” says Dr. Lee
Popular ultimately you have to perform the procedure, and for
in April that you need training, you need a comfort level.” Benson, pediatric cardiologist, The Hospital for Sick
Children.
A two-day educational session that took place in late
April 2017, featured international experts in structural
heart disease intervention, which comprises patients Link to full story: click here.

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Peter Munk Cardiac Centre cardiologists, Dr. Eric Horlick (L) and
• An oral history of acute stroke care Dr. Mark Osten, use catheters and guidewires to treat a patient with a
hole in her heart – one of several cardiac conditions found within the
• Student recalls life-saving transplant after discovering kidney failure ‘by accident’ specialty of structural heart disease intervention, which was the subject
of a two-day course in Toronto in late April 2017. (Photo: UHN)

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