Heartbeat Newsletter Launches!

UT Southwestern Medical Center is proud to announce the launch of Heartbeat, a newsletter devoted to highlighting clinical and research activities in the area of cardiovascular care. 

The first issue is now available online.

Heartbeat will be published three times a year.

UT Southwestern Medical Center is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading heart disease treatment centers. By combining attentive, compassionate care with our extensive clinical and research resources, we provide patients with individualized care within an environment that is home to one of the pre-eminent health-care facilities for heart conditions.

If patients have experienced a heart attack or heart failure, have congenital heart disease or are at high risk for developing cardiovascular disease, UT Southwestern cardiologists, surgeons, researchers and other specialists have the knowledge, expertise and medical resources needed to effectively treat their condition and improve cardiovascular health.

Our physicians work in unison with heart disease researchers to provide the most advanced therapeutic techniques available to treat heart conditions. Our diagnostic and treatment facilities enable cardiologists and other specialists to offer advanced cardiac catheterization procedures, cardiac computer tomography (CT) scans, echocardiogram and electrophysiology tests, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), nuclear imaging, positron emission tomography (PET), cardiac surgery and other procedures that make a valuable contribution to achieving improved cardiovascular health.

The cardiovascular program at UT Southwestern is dedicated to ensuring that patients have access to the state-of-the-art resources needed to treat all the forms of cardiovascular disease. Our staff is dedicated to providing the vital diagnostic procedures and interventional therapies needed to improve, cure and prevent all types of heart disease.

Individual, Personalized Care Combined With a National Leadership Status
UT Southwestern’s focus on providing individualized cholesterol management, hypertension control and cardiac rehabilitation services provides patients with personal cardiovascular education to meet their needs. Exercise training, stress management and nutritional instruction are specifically tailored with them in mind.

In addition, our dedication to excellence in cardiovascular health care is exemplified by the consistent results achieved by our heart transplant program, which exceeds national averages for one-year, five-year and 10-year survival rates. The Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery is also actively involved in groundbreaking clinical and research activities that continually advance the science of cardiovascular diagnosis and treatment.

UT Southwestern is privileged to receive significant support from the American Heart Association, the National Institutes of Health and other leading research organizations in the nation. In addition, our clinicians and scientists participate in a wide range of collaborative projects with other researchers, and effectively apply the latest research findings to give patients access to the most up-to-date breakthroughs in cardiovascular medicine.

UT Southwestern’s mission in treating heart disease is to provide personalized care for a patient’s specific condition, within a setting that also takes full advantage of the clinical expertise and advanced resources available within one of the nation’s leading cardiovascular programs.