Heart & Vascular
Every heart has a story and you can trust yours to the team at CMC's New England Heart & Vascular Institute. As a nationally-recognized destination for heart and vascular care, our award-winning team includes board-certified cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, technologists and others who are leaders in their field. We provide you with the latest and most advanced treatment options in the region. This is where heart meets excellence.
Tiny Technology, Revolutionized Care
The World’s First Dual Chamber Leadless Pacemaker System
A new minimally invasive option to treat the nearly 80% of people who require pacing in two chambers of the heart.
New England's First Transcatheter Aortic Valves
Bringing Advanced Technology & Treatment Options to Our Community
Our Structural Heart Team implanted the first two Abbott Portico transcatheter aortic valves in New England. Having this new valve available to treat patients allows our physicians to offer even more customized care to each patient. CMC’s New England Heart & Vascular Team including James Flynn, MD, FACC, FSCAI; Jeffrey Bleakley, MD, FACC; Gerald Sardella, MD and members from Abbott. Congratulations to the entire team for bringing this advanced technology and treatment options to our community.
1st hospital in New Hampshire to:
- perform open heart surgery in 1986 (as a community hospital)
- use CardioMEMS™ HF System, a miniature, wireless sensor to manage heart failure
- perform a completely percutaneous (no incisions) mitral valve replacement
- offer Myocardial Perfusion PET (Positron Emission Tomography)
- perform a fenestrated endovascular aortic repair—FEVAR (in southern New Hampshire)
- use the KONECT device in the repair of ascending aortic aneurysms
- offer TCAR: trans carotid artery revascularization (as a community hospital)
- perform the Convergent procedure—a two-step procedure which combines a minimally-invasive surgical treatment with a catheter ablation to treat patients with long-standing atrial fibrillation (AFib)
- perform the first arterial thrombectomy using Penumbra’s Lightning Bolt 7
1st hospital in New England to:
- implant WATCHMAN™ after its FDA Approval
- use cryoanalgesia for treatment of pain after open heart surgery, reducing the need for opioids
- offer advanced 3-D mapping system (RHYTHMIA Mapping System) to better diagnose and treat all types of heart arrhythmias (in northern New England)
- offer the WATCHMAN FLX™ implant to AFib patients at risk for stroke who need an alternative to blood thinners
- use lithotripsy to break down complex calcium in coronary artery disease—Shockwave IVL (in northern New England)
- implant a dual chamber leadless pacemaker for patients with cardiac arrhythmia
- implant the Abbott Portico transcatheter aortic valve (TAVR) to treat aortic valve disease
1st hospital in the world to:
- to implant the WATCHMAN™ Device for patients contraindicated to anticoagulation as part of the ASAP-TOO clinical trial
- use LUMIPOINT™ mapping software to aid and enhance cardiac ablation procedures