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Art hAppENiNgS

Benzaiten Center Hosts Master Venetian

Chandelier Maker, Fabiano Zanchi On April 11 To 13

Fabiano Zanchi, sit down Meet the Artist
Mas ter Ven etian Dinner in their beautiful
Chandelier Maker 2,000-square-foot
The Benzaiten Center gallery during which
for Creative Arts is super Zanchi will talk about
excited to welcome his career, what artists
Fabiano Zanchi, master have inspired him
Venetian chandelier and where he gets his
maker, to our center for ideas for his amazing
three days of events. Fabiano Zanchi working on one chandeliers. The dinner
Zanchi is the most of his chandeliers is $100 per person.
sought-after chandelier Friday night, April
maker in the world! 12 the center will hold One of Zanchi’s flower chandeliers
This sculptor of light one of their celebrated, One of two works being auctioned off by highly collectible
is a third-generation often sold-out, artist blow-outs where Zanchi will work Spanish artist, Joan Colomer Valls
glassblower who started with the expert Benzaiten staff for three hours of mind-
his apprenticeship with blowing glassblowing! As founder and president, J.B. was a gallerist for 30 years. She has a lot of inventory left over
his father in Murano at the Berkow likes to put it, “These demos are not like anything that she has not had the time or space to exhibit since starting
age of 14 years. He left the you’ve ever seen before. There are usually anywhere from the center. Thus, to clear out some much needed space, she
island in 2010 to explore five to six glassblowers working on the same piece all in is willing to move a lot of this art with all bidding starting at
the world. After years close proximity to each other, weaving between, over, way below cost. All proceeds raised by this auction will go
spent in Asia and long and around each other in an incredible muscular and fiery to the center’s many children and scholarship programming.
periods between America, dance.” These nights also feature live music from a great Don’t miss this opportunity.
Canada and the Caribbean, local band, nibbles and drinks … all for the low, low price To learn more about these events and to register for them
Zanchi returned to Italy in of $20 per person. People can register and pay online or you online, visit the center’s website at www.benzaitencenter.org
2018, full of experience pay at the door if the event has not been sold out. Saturday, or call (561) 508-7315.
and the desire to finally April 13 is their usual, no frills Free Family Day. Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
give shape to his dreams. Zanchi’s chandelier at a new Zanchi will also be conducting a weeklong workshop. Find Us At: 1105 Second Avenue South, Lake Worth Beach,
Recently he was chosen Shanghai hotel This is an extraordinary opportunity for the professional FL 33460
by Lissoni and Partners, a glassblowers living in our area. GPS does not always get you there so use the following
major design firm headquartered in Milan and New York, Art Auction Cocktail Party On Thursday, April 2 simple directions.
to create an astoundingly large chandelier to act as the focal This is an incredible opportunity to purchase paintings, Exit I-95 at Sixth Avenue and go east. Take a left at the
point of the new Swire Hotel’s lobby in Shanghai. limited edition prints, glass art and jewelry at super reduced blue Kwik Stop store and then a right on Third Avenue South.
Thursday night, April 11 the center will hold an elegant, prices! Before J.B. Berkow founded the Benzaiten Center she Park in our parking lot or anywhere on the street.

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SPOTLIGHT ON HEALTH CARE

Fewer patients face traditional open-heart surgery as

minimally invasive procedures continue to evolve.

By Valerie Staggs

When Dr. John Gibbon performed the first conditions is heart valve disease, which, as For Sabbah, these new structural heart
successful open-heart bypass procedure in the name suggests, relates to a defect in a treatments allow him to provide patients
1953, the medical world gained its first heart valve. “The heart has four chambers with the life altering results they are desper-
glimpse at the possibilities for treating this and four heart valves. Their function is to ately seeking. “One of the most rewarding
vital organ with innovative medical inter- open and close in harmony so that blood aspects of my specialty is offering pa-
vention. Today cardiac surgeons perform flows through the heart in the proper di- tients who aren’t feeling well the option
over 900,000 procedures annually and by rection,” explains Sabbah. A “leaky” valve of a minimally invasive procedure. In
2029, cardiac surgeries are projected to can cause blood to back up into the lungs most cases, they are feeling better in as
reach 1.3 million each year. The increase and elsewhere, at times causing significant little as a week. There is nothing better
is attributed not to open-heart procedures, symptoms of shortness of breath, dizziness, than that.”
but to more minimally invasive options and even sometimes chest pain.
now available to physicians.
New procedures such as TAVR (transcath-
While Gibbon paved the way for the use eter aortic valve replacement) enable car-
of open-heart procedures to treat serious diologists like Sabbah to fix valve defects
heart conditions, the introduction of new through minimally invasive methods. The
cardiovascular technologies in recent years TAVR procedure involves a small IV, typi-
has enabled patients to avoid the need for conditions that affect the structure of the cally in the groin area, to allow access to an
open-heart surgery in many cases. Today heart, specifically the heart’s valves, walls, artery. A catheter is then inserted into the
cardiologists are able to diagnose and treat chambers or muscles. These conditions artery and guided through that blood vessel
many heart conditions early before they can be congenital, meaning they have been to the heart where the clogged up valve is
lead to future complications. with the patient since birth, or they can be located. The new tissue aortic valve is then
caused by other adverse conditions in the deployed inside of the defective aortic valve.
“The landscape of cardiac care has body such as high blood pressure, an infec- The average TAVR procedure takes about
changed significantly over the past de- tion or autoimmune diseases such as lupus one hour, and most patients return home
cade,” says Dr. Michael Sabbah, an inter- or rheumatic fever. Simple aging can also the next day. Patients report a significantly
ventional and structural cardiologist at Ju- lead to structural heart defects. About 2.5% improved quality of life after the procedure.
piter Medical Center. “We are now able to of all Americans suffer from structural heart
treat defects and disorders of the heart be- disease. TAVR is just one of the treatment meth-
fore they lead to more serious conditions.” ods cardiologists now have available to treat
Thanks to recent developments in the treat- structural heart disease. Similar treatments Michael Sabbah, MD
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The defects and disorders Sabbah refers ment of structural heart disease, cardiol- available include MitraClip and Am-
to are collectively known as “structural ogists like Dr. Sabbah now have a host of platzer Septal Occluder . Both involve To learn more, visit
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heart disease,” a sub-specialty of cardiol- different options for treating their patients. putting a device in place to fix a structural
ogy. Structural heart disease is defined as One of the most common structural heart abnormality. jupitermed.com/cardiology.
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