| Welcome
to the home page.
The home page
was designed with you in mind.
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Features:
- Heart tip
of the day
- Visible search
box — search for the topics you are looking for
- Chat with
a nurse during regular business hours
- Podcasts
for downloading to listen to later
- Click to
areas of interest for patients and health care professionals
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| The
Heart Guide —
Everything you want to know about heart disease with enhanced animation
and graphics
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Features:
- Ask the doctor
- through a partnership with Med Help Heart Forum, Cleveland Clinic
doctors are able to answer your questions
- How the heart
works
- Types of
heart disease - Provides
basic information as well as detailed explanations of various
types of heart disease (coronary artery disease, valve disease,
abnormal heart rhythms, heart failure, congenital heart disease,
hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and others)
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- Medication
information - information on how to take medications as well as
a comprehensive search for heart medications
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- Complete
Preventive Cardiology section with monthly recipes, exercise articles,
and Ask the Dietitian section. Also features information on all
the major risk factors of heart disease: cholesterol, diabetes,
high blood pressure, smoking, nutrition strategies, stress management,
weight management and exercise.
- Educational
Opportunities - provides a calendar of events, two newsletter
opportunities, and information on support groups
- Our Success
Stories - meet our patients
- Support Groups
and Links - links selected and approved by health care professionals
within the Heart Center
- HeartProfilers
- interactive decision support tool
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- Tests and
Procedures - a guide to tests and procedures performed at the
Cleveland Clinic Heart Center (as tests and procedures change
often, if you do not see one listed you are interested in, please
contact
us.)
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| Personal
Folder
Sign up for your own personal folder. This will allow you to create
your own online folder to store relevant heart information.
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Features:
- Bookmark
items you find in the Heart Center website
- Organize
your folder into categories by clicking on Personal Favorites
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- Link to theStatus.com,
a secure personalized website, sponsored by the Cleveland Clinic
Heart Center, for patients awaiting heart surgery — to keep
in contact with their friends and loved ones while they are in
the hospital and on to recovery.
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| History
of Innovations
This section
of the site features the legacy of innovations which contributed
to the modern era of heart care. It is divided into two major areas: |
| The
timeline
The history of heart care at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation
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A
look into the future
Current innovations and an article featuring one of our new procedures
or research
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| Information
for Health Care Professionals
Designed specifically
for the needs of health care professionals
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Features:
- How to refer
a patient - what you need to know and important phone numbers
- Educational
Opportunities - includes a calendar of Cleveland Clinic Foundation
sponsored CME courses, information on the Fellowship/Residency
Programs, Special Courses and Medical CyberSessions brought to
you by www.theheart.org
- Careers in
cardiovascular health
- Alumni Information
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- Cardiac Consult
- an online cardiology newsletter providing information from Cleveland
Clinic Heart Center specialists about innovative diagnostic and
management techniques.
- Publications
search - use of search engine, allows a search of the National
Library of Medicine PubMed database for articles produced by Cleveland
Clinic Heart Center physicians.
- Presentations
- brought to you by health care professionals in the Heart Center
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| Our
Doctors
Complete Heart Center staff directory
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Features:
- Search for
a doctor by subspecialty, procedures, symptoms or heart topics
- Listings
include specialties, biographies, publication list, and a publication
search which searches the National Library of Medicine's database
for articles published by each physician. Listings take you directly
to abstract of article.
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| Heart
Center Research
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Features:
- Clinical
Trial Information - What you should know about participating in
a clinical trial
- Our Research
- highlights the various and extensive research studies being
conducted at the Heart Center
- Core Laboratories
- resources available to conduct high quality, valid and reliable
studies.
- Research
Posting Board - current research studies recruiting people to
participate.
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| Make
An Appointment
Everything you need to know to make an appointment at the Cleveland
Clinic Heart Center
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Features:
- How to make
an appointment - phone numbers, information you will need to make
your appointment run smoothly
- Directions
to the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and while you are here, to
the Heart Center
- Reminders
- information about tests and procedures
- Answers to
common questions
- A direct
link to a form which you may fill out to make an appointment at
the Heart Center
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| In
The News
Keep up to date on current happenings in heart health
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Features:
- Heart Center
stories in the news
- Heart Center
physicians commenting on heart related topics in the news
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| About
Us
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Features:
- Centers of
Excellence - Learn more about our Cardiovascular Specialties
- Facts and
Stats provides information on Heart Center statistics
- A tour of
the Heart Center
- Heart Center
Outcomes
- Surgical
Outcomes 2002
- Directions
to the Heart Center and while you are at the Heart Center, maps
of the Cleveland Clinic campus
- Around Town
- information on what there is to do, while in Cleveland, Ohio
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