by DrCiuffo | Jul 16, 2019 | News
SIOUX CITY — Madalyn Copcutt traveled more than 10,500 miles from her home in Perth, Australia, to Sioux City to have Dr. Giovanni Ciuffo remove a rare tumor from her heart through bloodless open-heart surgery at MercyOne Siouxland Medical Center. Read The Full...
by DrCiuffo | May 14, 2019 | News
Open heart surgery can be a scary and daunting thought. And for a long time blockages in the heart have been treated two ways: with a coronary artery bypass or with stents. With a coronary artery bypass graph, cardiac surgeons cut through a patient’s breast bone, also...
by DrCiuffo | May 14, 2019 | News
Melissa Luther is a busy mother of three from Naples, Florida. But she had a problem, she was suffering from mitral valve regurgitation, a condition where the heart valve is leaking backward rather than one way like it’s supposed to. Read The Full...
by DrCiuffo | May 13, 2019 | News
Shirley Knight and her daughter, Laury Mahr, are lucky to have one another: both women have lost their husbands and all their siblings. And were it not for Knight’s intense will to live, Mahr might not have her mother, either. Read The Full... by DrCiuffo | May 12, 2019 | Blog, Anatomy, Dr. Giovanni B Ciuffo, Heart Health, Weight
Exercise isn’t just for achieving big muscles. Exercise impacts heart health in a very important and fundamental way. To keep your heart healthy, you can strengthen the heart muscle by doing exercises. Relatedly, exercises for your heart will help lower your blood...