Szymanski had multiple surgeries to correct her heart condition before the age of six. Blood clots at age 34 led her to Dr. Marlon Rosenbaum and the adult congenital heart disease team at Columbia.
The Schneeweis Center's Matthew Lewis, MD, received grant funding from the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research in conjunction with Columbia's Clinical Trials Office.
The Schneeweis Adult Congenital Heart Center opened a location in White Plains, New York, one of three satellite locations currently serving patients in the greater metropolitan area.
In what will come as reassuring news to those who were born with a heart defect, new research finds these people aren't at increased risk for moderate or severe COVID-19.
