Blum Center Program: An Introduction to Inherited Heart Disease
While heart disease is often thought of as mainly being influenced by lifestyle factors, genetics can play a greater role in some people.
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Corrigan Minehan Heart Center
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Our dedicated physicians, nurses and staff are committed to providing the best possible care. We have taken unprecedented steps to ensure office visits, procedures and surgeries are welcoming and safe. Your health and safety is our top priority.
Patients come from all over the world to undergo cardiac surgery at the Corrigan Minehan Heart Center. They have every resource of the hospital's vast expertise available to them, including extensive educational materials and access to promising new therapies through clinical trials.
Our leading cardiac surgeons treat patients within several of the Corrigan Minehan Heart Center's condition-specific programs:
View all treatments and services at the Corrigan Minehan Heart Center.
For the heart's valves
For the heart’s blood vessels
For the aorta, the heart’s largest artery
To treat heart failure
To treat adult congenital heart disease
To treat heart rhythm conditions
Cardiac surgeons from the Mass General Corrigan Minehan Heart Center participate in national clinical studies evaluating new technologies and devices to treat heart disease. This allows us to bring our patients promising new treatments as quickly as possible.
Patients interested in participating in clinical trials can browse online for open trials.
Our team of world-class physicians and nurses specialize in specific forms of heart disease and work closely together to offer leading treatments and preventive care for both common and complex cardiac conditions.
Mass General is dedicated to ensuring that people understand their health care choices and have the necessary information to make decisions affecting their health and wellbeing. The related support and wellness information listed below can play a role in treatment options.
What to expect before, during and after your surgery at the Corrigan Minehan Heart Center.
Support and guidance during a family member's open-heart surgery or transplantation.
A guide of what to expect before, during and after cardiac anesthesia.
Virtual visits allow you to conveniently meet with your provider from home—either online (over your computer or device) or by phone.
We are ready to care for you—whatever your health care needs may be. We are committed to providing the very best and safest care possible.
Our physicians welcome second opinion appointments to review cases and proposed lines of treatment.
While heart disease is often thought of as mainly being influenced by lifestyle factors, genetics can play a greater role in some people.
Malissa Wood, MD, cardióloga de Mass General, afirma que el entorno, incluyendo los amigos, la familia y el lugar de trabajo, puede influir en su salud del corazón.
A new study uncovers potential mechanisms that may contribute to “broken heart syndrome,” or Takotsubo syndrome (TTS), a temporary heart condition that is brought on by stressful situations and emotions.
Christopher Learn, MD, of the Corrigan Minehan Heart Center and Department of Medicine, reviews the opportunities and challenges of adolescents and young adults transitioning to adult care providers.
Michael Honigberg, MD, reviews the epidemiology of heart disease in women, differences in heart disease between women and men, unique sex-specific risk factors for heart disease in women and special considerations for promoting female heart health.
Fine particulate air pollution stimulates production of inflammatory cells, leading to inflammation of the arteries.
Appointments are available at the Mass General main campus in Boston and Mass General Waltham.