With populations aging in much of the world, the decline of mental capacity in later years is of increasing concern. There has been hope in the medical community that effectively treating high blood pressure and atherosclerosis could slow or delay this decline. In a study of people over the age of...
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Dr. Messika-Zeitoun is a cardiologist in the Division of Cardiology at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute and a full professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. He is currently director of the Centre for Valvular Heart Disease and of the Heart Valve Mobile Screening Program.
It has been little more than a decade since researchers categorized the full suite of genes contained in the human body, but this exciting milestone merely opened up an even more challenging frontier. There turns out to be only about 20,000 genes associated with the famous DNA molecule—a sizable...
February is Heart Month, and the federal Minister of Health, the Honourable Jane Philpott, chose to kick it off by coming to the Ottawa Heart Institute to announce $2.9 million in funding for five of its researchers. Heart disease is the second-leading cause of death in Canada. This funding, through...
It’s 2062. The world is a futuristic utopia of push-button conveniences made possible by technology. Even visiting the doctor happens virtually via videophone. Such was the premise of the popular American animated sitcom, The Jetsons, which first hit airwaves in 1962. But, as Cardiac Telehealth...
Chelsea Moran, PhD, is a health psychologist and clinician investigator at the Ottawa Heart Institute. She is an assistant professor with the Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Ottawa.
The good news is that their hearts are in the right place. Women in Canada see themselves as their families’ “heart keepers,” playing a significant role in maintaining everyone’s heart health, whether it’s the food they serve, the physical activity they encourage, or the non-smoking households they...
Andrew Mulloy, MD, is a cardiologist at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute and The Ottawa Hospital. He is also appointed as an assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa.
The University of Ottawa Heart Institute offers a multimodality cardiac imaging fellowship which covers nuclear cardiology, cardiac positron emission topography (PET), cardiac computed tomography (CT), and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Erin E. Mulvihill, PhD, is a Scientist and Director of the Energy Substrate Metabolism Research Laboratory at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. She is also a Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, in the Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Ottawa.
Dr. Sanela Music is a cardiologist and clinician teacher at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute and an assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. She specializes in heart failure, cardiac transplantation, echocardiography and pulmonary hypertension.
Dr. Girish Nair is currently the director of cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmia service at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. He is a full professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa.
Shoehorned into a small room, the first positron emission tomography (PET) scanner at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute made possible a dedicated PET imaging service for heart patients one day a week. That was in 1995, and cardiologist Rob Beanlands, MD, physicist Rob deKemp, PhD, and nuclear...
With roughly half a million Canadians now living with heart failure, the condition is an increasingly common one that can seriously impact an individual’s quality of life. Even when appropriately treated, hospital admission and readmission rates are stubbornly high. George Wells, Director of the...
Navigating delirium during hospitalization is a guide designed to support caregivers and families of hospitalized patients with delirium.
Arrhythmias — disturbances of the heart’s normal rhythm—affect more than 1.5 million Canadians and can impact a person’s health and well-being in a variety of ways. Sudden cardiac death caused by an arrhythmia kills 40,000 people every year. An estimated 350,000 Canadians are living with atrial...
More than half a million Canadians are living with heart failure and another 50,000 join their ranks each year. The standard treatment for heart failure has not changed for quite some time. Now, a new drug—so new that it’s identified only as LCZ696—is generating interest among cardiologists and...
Not all treatments work in all patients, but often it’s not possible to know ahead of time who will benefit. The Ottawa Heart Institute recently became the first centre in Canada to use a new radioactive tracer clinically to better define the prognosis of a patient in heart failure. The tracer...
The Heart Institute has played a pivotal role toward preventing a serious complication following open-chest surgery by helping launch Rhythm Biotherapeutics Inc.
The University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) is leading Canada's first dedicated walking rehabilitation program for people with peripheral arterial disease (PAD), a painful and debilitating “hardening” of the arteries outside of the heart, most commonly in the legs. The first-of-its-kind...