Patient Stories

Individuals from across the country travel to the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute to receive exceptional patient care and the most advanced treatments available. Meet a few of our patients that have successfully undergone treatment at the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute.

Center for Coronary Disease

• Jorge Galdamez Cardiac Catheterization
• Alzenia Melton Outpatient Chest Pain Clinic
• Darren "Dop" Troutman Preventive Cardiology
• Vicki Amick Percutaneous Coronary Intervention & Cardiac Rehabilitation
• Daniel Hayes Percutaneous Coronary Intervention & Cardiac Rehabilitation
• Edward Richardson Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
• Al Winick Percutaneous Coronary Intervention & Cardiac Rehabilitation
• Dale Youngkrantz Percutaneous Coronary Intervention & Cardiac Rehabilitation

Center for Heart Failure

• James Armstrong Bi-Ventricular Assist Device & Heart Transplantation
• Allus Brown Ventricular Assist Device & Heart Transplantation
• Conrad Marshall Ventricular Assist Device & Heart Transplantation
• Lindsay Ledford Ventricular Assist Device & Heart Transplantation 
• Melissa Simon Heart Transplantation
• Anna Reiniesch Heart Transplantation
• Gene Chapoton Heart Transplantation

Center for Heart Rhythm Disorders

• Carlos Ahon Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)
• Eric Ferguson Cardiac Ablation Procedure, idiopathic ventricular tachycardia
• Rita Sterling Hybrid Maze Procedure, atrial fibrillation 
• Christine Zastrow Classic Maze Procedure, atrial fibrillation 
• Brooke Lannert Classic Maze Procedure, atrial fibrillation 
• Edward Haynor Classic Maze Procedure, atrial fibrillation
• Dahlia Emerson Hybrid Maze Procedure, atrial fibrillation 
• Lawrence Desjarlais Classic Maze Procedure, atrial fibrillation

Center for Heart Valve Disease

• Stefanie Bader Aortic Valve Replacement
• Doris Snyder Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
• Eric Gonsalves Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement
• Joanne Kennedy & Laura McNamara Heart Valve Replacement Surgeries
• Irvin Lafferty Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
• John "Jay" Marschall Aortic Valve Replacement
• Chester Damron Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair

Center for Vascular Disease

• Muriel Davis Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Repair
• William DeMarco Carotid Artery Stenting
• Jeffrey Guenther Thoracic Aortic Dissection Repair
• William Taylor Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
• James Danauskas Limb Preservation Surgery, peripheral artery disease
• Robert Castillo Minimally Invasive Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
• Nicholas Maruszczak Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
• Richard Schmidt Minimally Invasive Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair