Heartbeat is UT Southwestern Medical Center’s newsletter highlighting clinical and research activities in the area of cardiovascular care. Through this newsletter, we will share our efforts to improve cardiovascular treatment and care for our current and future patients, both regionally and through the nation. Heartbeat is published three times a year.

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Spring 2011 Issue:
• Paradigm Shift: Introducing the Valve Sparing Aortic Root Replacement
• Doctors lead new subspecialty boards
• New blood test could detect heart disease in people with no symptoms
• Heart Transplant Program: A Regional Resource with a Tradition of Excellence
• Lung Transplantation Program: Best Results in the State

Fall 2010 Issue:
• Adult Congenital Heart Disease Clinic: Subspecialty Care at UT Southwestern
• Fitness vs. Fatness
• Adult Congenital Heart Disease Clinic: Subspecialty Care at UT Southwestern
• Entering a New Era: Cardiovascular Effects of Diabetes Drugs

Spring 2010 Issue:
• Gender Differences in Cardiac Disease: Men and Women Really Are Different
• Who's the Fairest of Them All?
• Are Major Health Campaigns for Naught?
• Pulmonary Hypertension Program Provides Hope, Unmatched Expertise

Fall 2009 Issue:
• The Dallas Heart Study:  Early Results
• Detecting Vascular Disease with Ultrasound
• Advanced Testing for Heart Disease Risk

Summer 2009 Issue:
• LVADs: A New Era in Mechanical Support for the Failing Heart
• Latest Advances in Atrial Fibrillation Ablation
• Fenestrated Endografting for the Treatment of Thoracic and Abdominal Aneurysms
• CREST: UT Southwestern Contributes to Historic Study