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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...

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...

What 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...

What 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...

Heart 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...

What 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...

What 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...

ACE 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...

Understanding 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...

Symptoms 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, ...

Heart Disease and Pericarditis

Pericarditis can be acute (occurring suddenly) or chronic (long-standing).

Heart 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...