{"id":3396,"date":"2023-07-12T15:51:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T15:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/?page_id=3396"},"modified":"2023-09-27T13:16:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T13:16:38","slug":"cardiamend-patch-amiodarone-dr-farivar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/cardiamend-patch-amiodarone-dr-farivar\/","title":{"rendered":"CardiaMend: A New Patch To Stop Post-Operative Atrial Fibrillation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atrial Fibrillation is a dangerous, post-operative complication for heart surgery patients.\u00a0 Unfortunately, research suggests that up to 30% of heart surgery patients experience AFib, an irregular heartbeat that causes poor blood flow and debilitating symptoms including shortness of breath. According to the American Heart Association, patients with atrial fibrillation are 5 times more likely to have a stroke.<\/p>\n<p>To potentially stop post-operative atrial fibrillation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Robert+Saeid-Farivar-Boise-Idaho.php\">Dr. Robert Saeid Farivar<\/a>, Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Saint Alphonsus Heart Institute in Boise, Idaho, is leading an innovative clinical trial that uses the CardiaMend patch on patients undergoing isolated heart valve surgery or coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xLB-TaGpaEI?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Key Learnings About CardiaMend &amp; Post-Op AFib<\/h2>\n<p>Here are the key learnings about the CardiaMend clinical trial:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Atrial fibrillation is common, annoying and potential deadly for heart surgery patients.\u00a0 Dr. Farivar states, &#8220;Atrial Fibrillation is super common. It can be very minor, annoying and keep the patient in the hospital for a few extra days. Or, AFib can be deadly and cause strokes and heart attacks. Our goal is to get rid of AFib completely so patients can go home as quickly as possible and feel as well as possible.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Robert+Saeid-Farivar-Boise-Idaho.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/profileImages\/367_129_179.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Robert Saeid Farivar\" width=\"129\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Robert+Saeid-Farivar-Boise-Idaho.php\">Dr. Robert Saeid Farivar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Farivar is the principal investigator for the new clinical trial evaluating the use of the CardiaMend patch soaked in Amiodarone for the prevention of post-op AFib.\u00a0 &#8220;The solution we\u2019ve come up with is to take a sheet of fetal bovine dermis, the skin of cows, and treat it with Amiodarone, which is an antiarrhythmic agent. That antiarrhythmic agent slowly penetrates into the heart. It\u2019s like putting topical salicylate, or Bengay, on something.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The CardiaMend patch is implanted during the cardiac procedure so the patient does not need to take any drugs after the operation. Dr. Farivar states, &#8220;You don\u2019t have to take it by pill. You don\u2019t have to get an IV injection, and it gets rid of the AFib completely.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Farivar is currently enrolling patients in the CardiaMend clinical trial.\u00a0 So far, the results of this research study have been encouraging.\u00a0 Dr. Farivar states, &#8220;We have enrolled 24 patients to date with great results!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Thanks to Dr. Farivar, Saint Alphonsus Heart Institute &amp; Helios Cardio<\/h2>\n<p>As this is such a big problem for heart surgery patients, I want to thank Dr. Farivar, his team at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/hospital\/saint-alphonsus\">Saint Alphonsus Heart Institute<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helioscardio.com\/products\">Helios Cardio<\/a>, the manufacturer of CardiaMend, for their collective work on this clinical trial that is evaluating the safety-and-efficacy of this new therapy to prevent post-op AFib!<\/p>\n<p>Related Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Robert+Saeid-Farivar-Boise-Idaho.php\">See Dr. Farivar&#8217;s Interactive Surgeon Profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/CardiaMend-Patich-Amiodarone-Postoperative-Atrial-Fibrillation-Clinical-Trial.pdf\">Download the CardiaMend Clinical Trial Brochure<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n<p>P.S. For the deaf and hard of hearing members of our community, I have provided a written transcript of the video interview below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"cms.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"class_list":["post-3396","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-atrial-fibrillation-afib"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3396"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3797,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3396\/revisions\/3797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}