Ohio Heart Firsts
• 2011 Ohio Heart Physicians Implant First Side Branch Stent in the U.S.
• 2011 Ohio Heart Physicians are first in Cincinnati to implant a HeartMate II ventricular assist device (VAD) as a treatment for end-stage heart failure.
• 2009 Ohio Heart Physicians are first in the area to use HeartNet to treat heart failure.
• 2008 Ohio Heart Physicians perform first procedure in the region to close a perivalvular leak in the heart
• 2008 First in Ohio to perform FDA-approved robotic-assisted transmyocardial revascularization
• 2008 First in the Tristate to implant a MRI compatible pacemaker
• 2006 First in the world to implant a defibrillator that prevents sudden cardiac arrest and monitors congestive heart failure
• 2003 First in the world to use a bipolar left ventricular pacing lead with guidewire delivery
• 2003 First in the U.S. to use branch vessel stents for smaller vessels
• 2002 First to use adenoviral gene therapy to promote new blood vessels
• 2000 First to use drug-eluting stents, with drug therapy at the stent site, to lower the rate of restenosis
• 2000 First to treat abdominal aortic aneurysms with a stent-graft so no surgery is required
• 1990 First to use intracoronary stents
• 1986 First to use tPA to dissolve the blood clot causing a heart attack
• 1980 First balloon angioplasty in Cincinnati