Riverside Heart & Vascular Center

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Your heart is in the right place. Offering ground-breaking treatment in cardiovascular disease diagnosis and care, Riverside Heart & Vascular Center is the Peninsula’s only Open Heart Surgery Center and the only local hospital performing stent catheterization with on site emergency surgical back up. We consistently surpass the national gold standard for quickly restoring blood flow to blocked arteries, and provide over 27,000 incidents of care annually.

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Riverside Heart and Vascular Center answered
On Mar 28

When should I call my doctor or seek help if I have chronic hypertension?

If you have chronic hypertension, you should call your healthcare provider if your BP is higher than normal and does not go down, even after taking your medicines exactly as you have been told to. If you have the following symptoms, call your healthcare provider or seek immediate help: a very bad.
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RHS Admin of Riverside Heart and Vascular Center answered
On Mar 24

What are the main classes of hypertension treatments?

Your chronic hypertension may be treated in the following ways: You may be given medicines to lower your blood pressure. Keeping your blood pressure under control protects your heart, lungs, brain, kidneys and other organs. Your healthcare provider may give you more than one type of blood pressure..
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Riverside Heart and Vascular Center answered
On Jan 03

What are the benefits of robotic-assisted surgery for prostate cancer?

For most patients, a robotic-assisted prostatectomy offers numerous potential benefits when compared to conventional open surgery, including: Better quality of life. Because of its far greater degree of precision, robotic-assisted surgery helps preserve sexual function and bladder control followin
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Dr. Steven S. Scott, MD of Riverside Heart and Vascular Center answered
On Aug 14, 2016

What is the Maze procedure?

The maze procedure is a heart surgery used to treat atrial fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation is an abnormal cardiac rhythm in which the atria, 2 of the 4 heart chambers, are fibrillating (quivering) rather than contracting and pumping. Atrial fibrillation can result in a very rapid and i
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Dr. Steven S. Scott, MD of Riverside Heart and Vascular Center answered
On Aug 03, 2016

Can I donate my own blood for use in surgery?

That depends on how much time you have to prepare for surgery and the likelihood that your operation will require a blood transfusion. Donating your own blood for surgery is called autologous blood donation. In the U.S., it is coordinated by the American Red Cross, as is other blood d
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Dr. Edward Chu, MD of Riverside Heart and Vascular Center answered
On Jul 25, 2016

What is a cardiac catheterization?

A cardiac cathterization is a common invasive heart procedure to diagnose blockages in the arteries, abnormalities of the heart muscle or valves and to measure blood pressure inside the heart or lung.A cardiologists will use a small tube (catheter) and place it in an artery or vein in
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Dr. Steven S. Scott, MD of Riverside Heart and Vascular Center answered
On Jun 28, 2016

What is the role of nurses and technicians during cardiac bypass surgery?

Coronary bypass surgery, and any heart surgery for that matter, is performed by a team rather than just the surgeon. It’s the same as when you take an airplane flight; the pilot depends on many people behind the scenes to get the plane off the ground. Those required are:1) The scrub nurs
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Dr. Steven S. Scott, MD of Riverside Heart and Vascular Center answered
On Jun 15, 2016

How can lung cancer be detected before it becomes advanced?

The tragedy of lung cancer is that it is often detected at an advanced stage. The main reason for this is that early lung cancer rarely produces symptoms. For years and years, researchers have tried to identify screening methods which can detect early lung cancer and save lives. The research has foc
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Dr. Steven S. Scott, MD of Riverside Heart and Vascular Center answered
On May 05, 2016

What is non-small cell lung cancer?

Primary cancers of the lung are generally divided into two groups: non-small cell lung cancer and small cell lung cancer. The term “primary” means that the cancer originated from the cells in the lung rather than spreading to the lung from another organ. Non-small cell lung cancer is the
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Dr. Steven S. Scott, MD of Riverside Heart and Vascular Center answered
On Apr 15, 2016

Is bypass surgery dangerous?

Yes, but so is taking an airplane flight, climbing a ladder to change a light bulb, and driving your car to the grocery store. The vast majority of heart operations done in this country have excellent outcomes. As a surgeon, I don’t use the term “dangerous,” but instead I talk to my
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Dr. Steven S. Scott, MD of Riverside Heart and Vascular Center answered
On Mar 29, 2016

What is heart valve surgery?

Like any pump or engine, the heart has valves which maintain flow in the appropriate direction. Abnormalities of the valves can be present from birth (congenital valve disease) or may develop later in life (acquired valve disease). Typically, the abnormal valve is nar
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Dr. Steven S. Scott, MD of Riverside Heart and Vascular Center answered
On Mar 29, 2016

How does mitral valve repair compare with mitral valve replacement?

Disorders of the mitral valve can be treated surgically by either a mitral valve repair or a mitral valve replacement. The abnormal valve may be narrowed, leaking, or both. The decision whether to repair or replace the valve is made by the surgeon based on what is wrong with the valve.&n
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Dr. Steven S. Scott, MD of Riverside Heart and Vascular Center answered
On Mar 28, 2016

What is small cell lung cancer?

Primary cancers of the lung are generally divided into two groups: non-small cell lung cancer and small cell lung cancer. The term “primary” means that the cancer originated from the cells in the lung rather than spreading to the lung from another organ. Small cell lung cancer is the less
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Dr. Steven S. Scott, MD of Riverside Heart and Vascular Center answered
On Jul 08, 2015

How does the heart pump blood?

The heart is a miraculous pump. It works because it is mostly made of muscle. Each tiny cell is able to perform a contraction in one direction. In fact, if they are separated out and given appropriate nutrients, a microscope will allow you to see individual cells still beating
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Dr. Steven S. Scott, MD of Riverside Heart and Vascular Center answered
On May 20, 2015

What is an aortic dissection?

The aorta is the largest blood vessel of the body, beginning at the heart, arching toward the back within the chest, and continuing down adjacent to the spine, where it divides to supply each leg. An aortic dissection is a serious condition in which the wall of the aorta tears, splitting i
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