The procedure involves inserting a catheter from the groin to the heart to look for the source of the problem. Once found, ...

Reference Backer, Overman and Dearani8 The centre-level QI infrastructure amongst Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society (PCICS) member institutions is unknown. The goal of this project was to ...

One in three Americans are affected by heart disease. Essentia Health is providing a better understanding of heart disease with their annual symposium on heart failure. Essentia Health’s heart ...

Medical experts emphasize that understanding these distinctions helps people make crucial decisions about seeking emergency care. A heart attack occurs when blood flow to the heart becomes blocked ...

The program helped the heart transplant candidate lose more than 100 pounds and she is no longer in need of the surgery.

Cardiac CT in Percutaneous Coronary Interventions CT coronary angiography in its current form plays a minimal role in selecting patients who may benefit from coronary revascularization.

A team led by a UNL researcher is working to develop a wearable monitoring device that contains multiple types of sensors to more quickly and accurately pick up on worsening ...

With the American Heart Association (AHA) and American Stroke Association (ASA) updating their guidelines for preventing ...

Further data is needed to better understand differences in cardiovascular disease risk among nonbinary and transgender patients. Despite these differences, one key thing is the same: Heart attack ...

Background Heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Serum uric acid (SUA), a product of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 2003 a diligent member of Opus Dei’s PR team spotted an item in Publisher’s Weekly about a ...