Heart Failure Patients Get Transplants the Same Day, Fall in Love 5 Years Later

Taylor Givens and Collin Kobelja’

Against All Odds Inova heart transplant patients, who never met while receiving lifesaving care in adjoining hospital rooms, reconnected and found enduring love On Taylor Givens and Collin Kobelja’s first date, the couple paused their dinner for a medicine break. Both needed to take anti-rejection drugs to help sustain their transplanted hearts. “It was a…

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Updated blood pressure guidelines encourage earlier intervention to decrease heart risks

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A New Normal Is my blood pressure normal? New hypertension guidelines may put you in a higher risk category The American College of Cardiologists (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) recently redefined high blood pressure, also known as hypertension. The first comprehensive update since 2003, these new guidelines introduce a category of hypertension called…

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WWII Veteran Col. Arnald D. Gabriel resumes active schedule after successful TAVR procedure for aortic stenosis at Inova

He Lives History Every Day Inova Heart & Vascular Institute patient story: Arnald D. Gabriel World War II veteran Col. Arnald D. Gabriel, 91, had somewhere very important to be on December 7, 2016. A combat machine gunner with the United States Army’s famed 29th Infantry Division and Conductor Emeritus of the U.S. Air Force…

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Inova Heart Team Tests New, Minimally Invasive Option to Replace Leaky Mitral Valves

Matthew W. Sherwood, MD, MHS, is board certified in interventional cardiology, cardiovascular disease and internal medicine. He practices at the Inova Schar Heart and Vascular.  The Inova Schar Heart and Vascular has a long history as a leader in treating heart disease. True to that mission, we’re excited to offer an innovative new treatment for patients…

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Loudoun Half Races Produced by the Ashburn Area Running Club presented by Inova Heart and Vascular Institute – Schaufeld Family Heart Center

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8k, Half Marathon, LoCo Mile, LoCo Challenge Produced by the Ashburn Area Running Club Ashburn, VA – The Ashburn Area Running Club’s Loudoun Half Races, presented by Inova Heart and Vascular Institute – Schaufeld Family Heart Center, is proud to announce the fifth running of the Loudoun Half & 8k on April 21 and 22. The…

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