JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – As February closes out American Heart Month, patients and doctors gathered at Ascension St. Vincent’s Riverside for a heart patient reunion aimed at celebrating lives saved and treatments that restored them.
At 79 years old, Kathleen vonKoschenbahr hugged the interventional cardiologist she credits with saving her life after a complex, high-risk diagnosis two years ago.
She said a second opinion and a less-invasive procedure offered an alternative to the open-heart surgery doctors first recommended…