Common Drug for Irregular Heartbeat Tied to Worse Outcomes
But study group taking digoxin may have been sicker overall, cardiologist notes
Category : Heart Diseases : Health & Medical
Pathophysiology of Heart Disease
Coronary heart disease is the nation's number one killer and is responsible for one in five deaths in the United States every single year. While it has been known for some time that blockages in the arteries are the cause of myocardial infarction (heart attack), emerging evidence has shown that a ch
Electrophysiology
More than 200,000 pacemakers were implanted in the United States in 2000, at a cost of nearly $2 billion for pacemakers and leads alone.
Oral Anticoagulant Drugs for Stroke Prevention in AF
What are the differences in efficacy between the newer drugs for stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation?
Are Antioxidants Bad for the Heart?
A new study suggests that antioxidants may actually be harmful
Emergence of Laplace Therapeutics
Advanced technologies, such as cardiac assist devices yield hemodynamic restoration, and obviate end-stage terminology.
Primary Diastolic Heart Failure
Review the definition, prevalence, prognosis and treatments of patients with primary diastolic heart failure.
Apixaban After Cardioversion for Atrial Fibrillation
What's the risk of thromboembolic events after cardioversion in subjects treated with apixaban vs those treated with warfarin?
Adjudicating Coronary Revascularization: Appropriate Use
Learn about problems related to the development of appropriateness criteria and modifications to guide future iterations.
New AHA/ACC Guidelines - More than just Cholesterol
Dr. Henry Black speaks with Dr. Michael Weber about the controversial new ACC/AHA cholesterol guidelines and what can be learned from them.
Cigarette Smoking Exposure and HF Risk in Older Adults
Is there still fire in the heart when the smoke is long gone?
The Heart's Pacemaker Starts the Beat
Without the presence of calcium in our bodies, our heart would not beat. An electrical current is instigated by calcium ions, which fires the heart's pacemaker and starts a chain reaction resulting in a heart beat.
Heart Failure Runs in Families
You can inherit heart failureheart failure, new data from the Framingham Heart Study shows.
Implanted Microcapsules Increase Blood Flow to Damaged Heart
For some heart disease patients, bypass surgery is only a partial success.
Lowering Cholesterol With Cod Liver Oil
Cod liver oil reduces LDL cholesterol concentrations, increases HDL cholesterol levels, and lowers elevated total cholesterol and triglycerides. In short cod liver oil is heart protective. It helps with reducing dangerous blood clotting - the kinds that produce stroke and heart attacks. It is a powe
Get a Heart Friendly Diet
To have a healthy heart should be one of our primary goals whenever our health is concerned. That is the ideal situation to have, as far as our heart is concerned. Although it is surely ideal, doing the steps that are necessary in ensuring that our heart remains healthy or gets back to its ideal hea
ROSETTA Registry Results
Noting little consensus regarding the use of functional testing after PTCA, study examined the effects of routine post-PTCA functional testing on the use of follow-up cardiac procedures and events.
Effect of Fixed-Dose ACE-Inhibitor/Calcium Channel Blocker
Does combined therapy with an ACE inhibitor and a CCB have additive benefits on vascular compliance at similar levels of BP compared with monotherapy with an ACE inhibitor?
Type 2 Diabetes and Preventive Cardiology
Although research and policy statements attest to the value of lifestyle modification programs for patients with diabetes, management remains a matter of glycemic control.
Primary Stenting for Acute Myocardial Infarction
This approach may be especially useful for hemodynamically stable patients who do not require a second vascular access site.