Patient Stories and Heart Health Tips

Doctors performing a procedure in the OR

Rebuilding Our Healthcare Delivery System After COVID-19: Understanding COVID-19's Impact on Vascular Care

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center's Heart and Vascular Center researchers partnered with the VA Hospital in White River Junction to uncover pandemic-influenced patterns of access to care.

View story

Provider performing a procedure

The ENCIRCLE Clinical Trial: Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement with the Edwards Sapien M3 System

The ENCIRCLE clinical trial aims to assess the Edwards Sapien M3 system to treat higher-risk patients diagnosed with symptomatic severe Mitral valve regurgitation.

View story

Paula Mattis and her husband

Breathing Easier After Collaborative Pulmonary Embolism Care

Paula Mattis credits the Heart and Vascular team for saving her life with their collaborative, personalized approach and excellence in care.

View story

Cardiology colleagues talking in a hallway

Team-Based Cardiac Care Model Benefits Patients at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center—and Beyond

To address unique patient needs, the Heart and Vascular Center has created several multidisciplinary Heart teams.

View story

Zhihang Zhang, MD

Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Nashua announces hiring of new cardiologist

Zhihang Zhang, MD, is now accepting patients

View story

Medical professionals reviewing an image of a heart

AFib’s on the Rise. A New Approach May Help Treat It.

Pulsed Field Ablation is a new way to treat a condition that is becoming increasingly common in the United States. Here’s what you need to know about AFib and how to address it.

View story

Nurse taking blood pressure

Protect Your heart With These Prevention Tips

Heart disease is America’s number one killer. Understand your risks so that you can make meaningful changes to your lifestyle and diet.

View story

Kristen Frechette, RN, works with two cardiology and cardiac rehabilitation patients

A Day in the Life of Cardiac Rehabilitation Nurse Manager Kristen Frechette, RN

How one Dartmouth Health nurse helps give cardiac patients the confidence to go back and do the things they love.

View story

Orthopaedic surgeon Lance G. Warhold, MD, during a carpal tunnel release surgery.

Dartmouth Health researchers studying hand screening technique for early diagnosis of life-threatening multi-system disorder

Cardiologists, orthopaedic surgeons, and pathologists at DHMC are collaborating on groundbreaking research aimed at identifying early signs of amyloidosis, a progressive and multi-system disorder.

View story

Male athlete runs on a treadmill with a close-up shot of EKG monitor.

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center's Heart and Vascular researchers look at need for preoperative stress testing

Using nationwide vascular registries and data, multiple Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) studies show that doctors may need to change who they order stress tests for before surgery.

View story