New innovations in brain and heart surgery at Westchester Medical Center
byYou know how people say, Well, it’s not brain surgery. For Simon Hanft, M.D., it really is. A “Heart-in-a-Box”: Sounds like the perfect Valentine’s Day gift, no? It is a gift, all right, but one of a different, life-saving kind that can ease the process and increase the number of successful heart transplants. And Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla – one of seven heart transplant centers in New York state – is the first to make use of it.