Florida Hospital Cardiology Press Releases

Twenty-year-old Rachel Lietzke is an active college student and model who works out three times a week. To meet her you would never know the Casselberry stunner recently had a complicated heart valve surgery at Florida Hospital.

Since heart attacks can strike at any time, in January, Florida Hospital became the only hospital in Central Florida to have a cardiac catheterization lab that is staffed around the clock. Here physicians diagnose the type and extent of heart disease...

When the new Ginsburg Tower at Florida Hospital Orlando opens next year, it will house the Florida Hospital Cardiovascular Institute and the most advanced cardiovascular technology available.

Florida Hospital's 1908 Society, the hospital's employee giving society, has given $100,000 dollars to Florida Hospital's Project ADAM Florida over the last two years.

Sixty-year-old Royice Rasnake has been suffering from periodic episodes of irregular heartbeat, dizziness, and fatigue for nearly six years. Diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, an electrical disturbance of the heart caused by a "short circuit...

Seventy-three-year-old Charles Ezell suffers from congestive heart failure (CHF) and gained 20-30 pounds from fluid after having open heart surgery at Florida Hospital Orlando. That's when Dr. Pradip Jamnadas, an interventional cardiologist at...

Florida Hospital is one of the first medical centers in the country to participate in a new clinical trial investigating whether patients' own stem cells can treat a form of severe coronary artery disease.

Patients who suffer from cardiac arrest are receiving a new type of treatment at Florida Hospital Orlando - it's called 'Code Cool' and it literally sends patients into a 'deep freeze.'

Each year, approximately 340,000 people die from sudden cardiac arrest. However, according to the American Heart Association, if defibrillation can be performed within the first 1-3 minutes, there is a 70-80 percent chance of survival.

Florida Hospital Apopka is pleased to welcome a new cardiologist to the hospital, Sualeh Ashraf, M.D.