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Posted: Jun 24, 2025

5 Reasons Why: Never Skip Yearly Physicals

Those yearly check-ups are crucial—and summer is the perfect time

As school starts and schedules get busier and busier, don’t forget to make the time for your child’s annual check-up. From toddler to teenager, the yearly doctor visit is an important part of monitoring your child’s growth and development—and keeping them healthy in the long-term.

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Posted: Jun 3, 2025

A Hundred Years of Heart

Historic highlights in cardiac surgery and the rise of cutting-edge care in Sarasota.

For the majority of human history, conventional wisdom told physicians and surgeons that operating on the human heart was impossible. We’ve come a long way.

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Posted: Mar 25, 2025

Cancer Care & Cardiotoxicity

When it comes to cancer, even the treatment can be hard on the heart.

Many have heard of fatigue, hair loss or nausea accompanying chemotherapy or other cancer treatments. Probably lesser known, but perhaps more serious, is something called cardiotoxicity—cardiovascular damage that can occur following certain types of treatment.

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Posted: Mar 4, 2025

From Experiment to Essential

The History of Blood Donation

Like the human body itself, a hospital like SMH-Sarasota or SMH-Venice needs a healthy blood flow to function properly. In fact, blood donations play a crucial role in helping physicians treat all sorts of patients. But what is now an everyday aspect of modern healthcare was once the cutting edge—where great discoveries are made and, sometimes, things get a little messy.

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Posted: Feb 18, 2025

The Team Using TAVR to Solve Heart Valve Failure

If the heart is your body’s engine, these cardiac specialists are your own personal F1 pit crew.

The human heart beats about 100,000 times a day. It’s a lot of hard work, and a lot of room for something to go wrong. At the Sarasota Memorial Structural Heart & Valve Clinic, transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is one of the many techniques used to keep hearts healthy.

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