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What's New at Sanger
07.26.10

ICD Support Group-Shelby Presentation

Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute cordially invites you to attend the Shelby ICD Support Group Presentation on July 26, 2010. The topic for this presentation will be "Traveling with your ICD", presented and sponsored by Medtronic.

The meetings will be held at Cleveland Regional Medical Center Auditorium
(CRMC Auditorium is located on the 2nd floor of the Grover Bldg.)

The program is free but registration is required. Click here for more information and to register.

09.09.10

ICD Support Group-Charlotte Presentation

Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute cordially invites you to attend the Charlotte ICD Support Group Presentation on September 9, 2010. The topic for this presentation will be "Supplements-Are They Good For Me?", presented by John Symanski, MD and sponsored by Medtronic.

The meeting will be held at Covenant Presbyterian Church at 1000 East Morehead St, Charlotte, NC
(At the corner of Morehead St., Dilworth Rd, and McDowell St.)

The program is free but registration is required. Click here for more information and to register.

   

Life Saver
Potential life-threatening condition found during free student-athlete physicals

By: Anna Wilson, The News Herald

Close to 600 student-athletes turned out for free physicals last Saturday at Grace Hospital. For one athlete, the physical could have saved his life. David Clark, MD, was one of several local physicians helping the athletes through the various health stations - height and weight, blood pressure and pulse; vision acuity; musculoskeletal and general medical.

"With one boy, I heard a loud heart murmur," said Dr. Clark, a pulmonologist (lung specialist) at Blue Ridge Pulmonary and Sleep Center. "I immediately sent him to Dr. Bracken."

After evaluating the student-athlete, Anthony Bracken, MD, a cardiologist with the Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute...

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