It is estimated that nearly 100,000 Americans die from blood clots each year. These clots usually fall into one of two categories—thrombi, which form locally in the blood vessels; and emboli, which form in other areas of the body's circulatory system, break off, and are carried via the blood stream until they become lodged in a blood vessel. Thanks to a new catheterization system being used at New York Methodist Hospital (NYM), surgeons can literally vacuum up entire blood clots and filter them out of the body's blood supply.

January Event Calendar Events and Support Groups Sponsored by New York Methodist Hospital

At its October 2013 meeting, the Board of Trustees of New York Methodist Hospital (NYM) approved the Hospital’s Community Service Plan (CSP) for 2014-2016.

Events and Support Groups Sponsored by New York Methodist Hospital

New York Methodist Hospital will host the first Fred L. Mazzilli Lung Cancer Screening Awareness Day on Saturday, November 16, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Hospital’s Carrington Pavilion Atrium, located at 506 Sixth Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn.

New York Methodist Hospital’s (NYM) annual Red Stocking Soirée fundraiser will be held on Wednesday, November 20 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Hospital’s Carrington Pavilion, 506 Sixth Street in Brooklyn.

New York Methodist Hospital’s (NYM) award-winning heart center has now added an advanced heart valve procedure for the treatment of life-threatening aortic stenosis (narrowing of one of the main valves to the heart). The procedure, transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), is performed in NYM’s cutting edge cardiac catheterization laboratory by a team of experts from both NYM and NewYork Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.­­­

Events and Support Groups Sponsored by New York Methodist Hospital