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Multimedia Library

The Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute's Multimedia Library offers patients and healthcare consumers a variety of media options to learn more about cardiovascular health issues and the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute.

Hybrid Maze Performed by Dr. Lee Featured on OR-Live, April 9, 2008.
Richard Lee, MD, cardiac surgeon and surgical director for the Center for Atrial Fibrillation at the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute is pioneering the Hybrid Maze procedure, a minimally invasive surgery for patients with atrial fibrillation. Watch and learn more! Please note: this video may be graphic in nature.

Patient Power, February 2008:
Patient Power is an audio Webcast program provided by Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Listen to previously recorded Webcasts.

  • Atrial Fibrillation: Complications and Cures
    Webcast date: February 12, 2008
    Presented by: Richard Lee, MD
    Download MP3 (60 MB, 60 minute program)
    Download Transcript (PDF format)
  • Stem Cell Treatment for Heart Repair
    Webcast date/time: February 26, 2008
    Presented by: Douglas W. Losordo, MD
    Download MP3 (30 MB, 30 minute program)
    Download Transcript (PDF format)

Myxomatous Mitral Valve Repair Webcast: June, 2007
This hour long Webcast, offered by Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Edwards Lifesciences, features Patrick M. McCarthy, MD and the new Edwards Myxo ETlogix annuloplasty ring. The Myxo ETlogix annuloplasty ring has been designed specifically to treat patients with myxomatous disease, a degenerative condition that affects the mitral valve in the heart.  Please note: this video may be graphic in nature.

Mini Med School - Heart
In February 2007, the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute offered a four part lecture series discussing the heart, heart disease, and medical treatments. Mini Med School is a series developed and sponsored by the Health Learning Centers at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Patient Power, February 2007:
Patient Power is an audio Webcast program provided by Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Listen to previously recorded Webcasts.

Hour to Hour:
Real Stories Inside Northwestern Memorial Hospital gives a unique, 30 minute behind-the-scenes look at the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute. Video is WMV format and roughly 88 MB in size.

Your Total Health:
Watch the following three minute videos to learn how the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute can help improve your cardiovascular health. Videos are Quicktime format and roughly 10MB in size.

  • Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute:
    Get an introduction to the new heart program at Northwestern Memorial that is launching Chicago into a new era of heart care and will make the city home to one of the top cardiac programs in the country.
  • Heart Valve Disease:
    A leaky heart valve may not sound like a major problem, but it can be like a ticking timebomb, even when there are no symptoms. At Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the latest imaging technology allows doctors to more easily find and diagnose these problems and repair them less invasively.
  • Atrial Fibrillation:
    Options to treat atrial fibrillation, which can lead to strokes, range from medications, to catheter ablation to the Maze procedure.


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