Over the last four years, heart specialists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center have implanted an innovative aortic heart valve replacement using a catheter-based approach that does not require open-heart surgery in a total of 100 patients — the most of any U.S. medical center to date.

CRF welcomes Tony Napoli as the organization’s new Director, Information Technology (IT), effective June 15, 2009. Tony is a senior level IT professional with a wealth of experience in all tiers of IT infrastructure, project and process management, service delivery, and applications development.

This year marked the first collaboration between the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and CRF in organizing the i2 Summit, the premier interventional cardiology meeting of the spring.

Insights into Stent Thrombosis Risk

This past March, CRF partnered for the first time with the American College of Cardiology (ACC) in organizing the i2 Summit, the interventional component of the annual ACC Scientific Session. A highlight of this year’s meeting in Orlando, Florida, was the presentation of a CRF-authored study focusing on factors that predict the risk of stent thrombosis. This life-threatening event occurs when a blood clot forms within a stent that has been placed in an artery to keep it propped open after angioplasty.