Cardiac Services

YNHH patient stories:
Real-life stories about people
with heart disease

Harriet Gelderman's Story
Harriet Gelderman was a Type A personality who ran her own business until she had a massive coronary at age 39. By all rights, she shouldn't have survived. But she did.

A Tale of Two Transplants
While a shortage of donated organs keeps many transplant patients on a waiting list, one transplant tale from YNHH made history.

Defining Heart Failure
Although medical management remains the standard treatment for patients with heart failure, places like Yale-New Haven are trying new surgical techniques.

"Am I Having a Heart Attack?"
The key to surviving a heart attack is getting help early, and Yale-New Haven Hospital opened a Chest Pain Center in its emergency department to do just that.

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