OHVC physicians are leaders and innovators who are nationally and internationally known for introducing the newest treatments and technologies to Tristate patients.

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Ohio Heart Firsts

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