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Breakfast with the Cardiologist: Heart and Lung Connect with Every Breath You Take

"Breakfast with the Cardiologist: Heart and Lung Connect with Every Breath You Take” will be held Tuesday, Feb. 4 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Russo’s Continental Catering and Banquet Facility, Bound Brook.


Edward Rachofsky, MD, a Somerset Medical Center interventional cardiologist and internist, and Robin Lucas, MD, a Somerset Medical Center pulmonologist and internist, will discuss the link between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and congestive heart failure (CHF), the difficulty in identifying the source of breathing symptoms, how COPD affects right-versus left-sided CHF, triggers to prevent hospital admission, diagnostic tests to differentiate one another and the latest treatments. Learn about Somerset Medical Center’s CHF self-management program. Breakfast will be served.

To register for this free program, call 908-203-6234 or visit www.somersetmedicalcenter.com/events.

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