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“A $99 Test Saved My Life”: How a Routine Calcium Score Uncovered a Silent Killer

When Don, a Lehigh Valley resident, retired after 36 years in financial marketing, he envisioned a chapter filled with giving back, staying active, and enjoying the simple things like travel, time out...

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Quick Thinking at St. Luke’s Carbon Campus Saves Man from Rarely Survived Abdominal Aortic Aneurism

Ed Shope of Warminster was at his vacation home in Jim Thorpe last August for a gathering to celebrate his granddaughter's birthday. He had been trying to ignore discomfort in his upper abdomen for a...

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St. Luke's Heart Care Expands in Sellersville

St. Luke’s Grand View Campus has strengthened its cardiology team to more than a dozen practitioners, including seven general cardiologists, an interventional cardiologist and advanced practitioners t...

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St. Luke’s Performs First Procedure Using ShortCut™ Device for Safer Heart Valve Treatment

St. Luke’s University Health Network has reached an important milestone in advanced heart care. Members of St. Luke’s Structural Heart Program, an integral part of our award-winning heart and vascular...

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Nationally Recognized for Cardiovascular Care

The American Heart Association presents outpatient program achievement awards for proven dedication to ensuring patients have access to best practices that reduce risk of heart disease and stroke. S...

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National Recognition for Excellence in Stroke Care

St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) has once again earned national acclaim from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association for its outstanding commitment to stroke care. The N...

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Presidential Diagnosis Brings Attention to Common Condition

News that President Trump has chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) has brought national attention to a condition that affects millions of Americans every year. CVI is one of the most common vascular con...

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Among First in Nation to Perform Revolutionary Tricuspid Valve Replacement

St. Luke’s Heart and Vascular team became the first in the region to perform a transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement (TTVR) using the revolutionary Edwards Lifesciences EVOQUE Tricuspid Valve Repl...

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Cardiac Patient Avoids Surgery

Mike Pittaro, Ph.D., 58, has a stressful job. He’s the director of corrections for Northampton County, and he teaches and writes books on the side. So, when he felt lousy for a few weeks, with some mi...

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SLUHN Invests in AI-Enabled MRI Technology from GE HealthCare

GE HealthCare (Nasdaq: GEHC), a leading medical technology innovator, and St. Luke’s University Health Network of Bethlehem, Pa., a nationally recognized nonprofit healthcare network, announced that S...

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Pioneering AI-Enhanced Screening Technology for Early Diagnosis of Heart Disorders

St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) heart specialists are first in the Lehigh Valley region employing advanced artificial intelligence technology, combined with echocardiograms, to detect and...

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First in Region to Provide Novel Treatment for Avoiding Lower-Extremity Amputations

St. Luke’s physicians are offering a new minimally invasive procedure that offers hope to persons facing likely amputation of a lower extremity due to a permanently blocked artery, called chronic limb...

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First in the Lehigh Valley to Offer Novel Non-Invasive Test for Heart Disease

Heartflow FFR-CT Analysis can help more accurately determine if a person with suspected coronary artery disease should be treated for heart disease. St. Luke’s University Health Network now offers a p...

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Stroke Patient Saved by 2nd Opinion

Michole Pignato, a teacher, credits St. Luke’s physicians with saving her life when an artery in her brain was on the brink of rupture. Pignato, 43, of Northampton, was out to dinner with her teenage ...

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Sherry Haas Gets Life-Saving Cardiac Care

Sherry Haas from Lehighton believes that a series of small miracles saved her life. Last October, Sherry felt something was very wrong and called 911. Jason Peters, an EMT with Palmerton Community Amb...

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Promising Research to Stabilize Growth of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms

St. Luke's vascular surgeons were the first in the Northeast to enroll a patient in a research study that could revolutionize the care of patients with small to medium-sized abdominal aortic aneurysms...

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St. Luke's is first in region to offer innovative treatment for uncontrolled high blood pressure

St. Luke's Bethlehem Campus recently treated the first patient in the Lehigh Valley with a new renal denervation (RDN) procedure designed for individuals with uncontrolled high blood pressure. On Dec...

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Longest Serving Employee on Record at Miners Campus

On January 6, 2025, Betty Benulis, RN, will celebrate a half-century of employment at St. Luke’s Miners Campus, a milestone that no other employee of the Coaldale hospital is known to have reached. Sh...

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