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Heart Failure and Heart Transplants
A heart transplant is the surgical replacement of a person's diseased heart with a healthy donor's heart. The health care team will monitor you clo...
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What is Heart Failure?
Less blood can enter your heart, and the blood pressure in your lungs goes up. When you have diabetes, high blood pressure, or other heart and bloo...
Read moreWhat is An Aortic Aneurysm?
If the doctor diagnoses you with an abdominal aneurysm, there can be a chance of blood clots. As with a thoracic aortic aneurysm, your doctor can s...
Read moreWhat You Should Do After a Heart Attack
If yours doesn’t, your doctor may refer you to a heart center that runs one. If you smoke, the single most important thing you can do -- not just f...
Read moreHeart Disease Treatment with Angioplasty and Stents
Balloon: A catheter with a small balloon tip is guided to the narrowing in your artery. Once in place, the balloon is inflated to push the plaque a...
Read moreWhat You Need to Know About Stents
These types are called coronary stents. To help solve these problems, small stents were created that could be mounted on the balloon and put into a...
Read moreWhat to Know: Pericardial Effusion
A pericardial effusion is excess fluid between the heart and the sac surrounding the heart, known as the pericardium. In most cases, inflammation o...
Read moreACE Inhibitors and Heart Disease
Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are heart medications that widen, or dilate, your blood vessels. While taking them, have your doctor...
Read moreUnderstanding Heart Disease
If your heart valve disease is severe, you may need treatment with medications to deal with heart failure. Some minor conditions can clear up on th...
Read moreSymptoms of Heart Disease
Like valve disease, heart failure symptoms may not be related to how weak your heart is. Many people with heart muscle disease, or cardiomyopathy, ...
Read moreHeart Disease and Pericarditis
Pericarditis can be acute (occurring suddenly) or chronic (long-standing).
Read moreHeart Bypass Surgery
Heart bypass surgery is when a surgeon takes blood vessels from another part of your body to go around, or bypass, a blocked artery. Bypass surgery...
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