Implantable Defibrillators Cost-Effective For Many Heart Failure Patients
A large group of heart failure patients can live longer with implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy. Data demonstrating that ICDs are also a cost-effective therapy.
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Morphine for Chest Pain Increases Death Risk
While patients hospitalized for a heart attack have long been treated with morphine to relieve chest pain, a new analysis has shown that these patients have almost a 50 percent higher risk of dying.
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Following Heart Care Guidelines Saves Lives
The closer hospitals adhere to national guidelines for treating potential heart attack patients, the greater the decline in their mortality rates.
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New Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery Relieves Atrial Fibrillation
A new minimally invasive heart surgery can erase the debilitating effects of atrial fibrillation (A-Fib), a condition in which the heart beats fast and irregularly.
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Heart Failure Drug That Prolongs Life Is Cost-Effective
The drug eplerenone is a cost effective way to extend the lives of people who develop congestive heart failure after suffering a heart attack.
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Taking Aspirin to Lower Your Risk of Heart Attack
If you are at risk for a heart attack, taking aspirin every day or every other day can lower your risk.
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Heart Attack Treatment Gap May Be Closing for Women
Women who have suffered a heart attack or have chest pain are being prescribed appropriate drug intervention at hospital discharge at the same frequency as men.
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Many Postmenopausal Women with Cardiovascular Disease Don't use Lifesaving
Low dose aspirin therapy has been shown to reduce the chances of a secondary heart attack or stroke in women who already have cardiovascular disease (CVD).
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Genes Can Influence Where Plaque Happens in Heart Arteries
Heredity sometimes influences where fatty deposits develop in a coronary artery. The new findings, could affect heart disease screening strategies for close relatives of coronary heart patients.
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Researchers Describe How Human Blood Stem Cells Transform Themselves to Repair Injured Animal Hearts
Regeneration of damaged hearts using blood stem cells now appears to be clinically promising. The study begins to explain why stem cells can help a heart heal.
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Two Drugs With FDA Warnings May Benefit Some Heart Failure Patients
Two drugs that the FDA warns against using in many heart failure patients may benefit some diabetics with heart failure. study found that patients with heart failure and diabetes who were prescribed one or both of two types of diabetes drugs, metformin and thiazolidinediones, had lower death rates.
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Surgery or Angioplasty? New scale helps physicians choose best heart treatment
A new rating scale can help physicians predict whether patients will feel better if their clogged heart arteries are opened non surgically or with a major bypass operation.
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Delays in Patient Transfer Undermine Angioplasty Benefits
Heart attack patients who are transferred from one hospital to another for emergency angioplasty often experience long delays in treatment. The American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, and European Society of Cardiology recommend that fibrinolytic therapy begin within 30 minutes of a heart attack patient's arrival at a hospital.
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Saving Lives In a Heartbeat
Unlike a heart attack, which typically occurs when there is a sudden blockage in an artery supplying blood to a heart, cardiac arrest is more of an electrical problem, in which the heart goes into a fast and chaotic rhythm called ventricular fibrillation.
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Healthy Heart, Healthy Mind?
Doctors are beginning to realize just how connected the heart and brain really are. what can you do to protect your brain, and your heart, at the same time?
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Valentine's Day Traditions Can Be Good for The Heart
Chocolate, wine and romance aren't just the quickest ways to your true love's heart. A University of Michigan Health System cardiologist says these Valentine's Day traditions are also the way to a healthy heart.
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Vitamin Tips to Take Care of Your Heart
With obesity on the rise in North America, the incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD) is becoming a greater concern.
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Implantable Defibrillators Save Lives in Many With Heart Failure
Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) reduce death by 23 percent in people with heart failure whose hearts don't pump blood efficiently.
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Recognizing a Heart Attack
Learn to recognize heart attack symptoms. Heart attacks often present themselves subtly, most often as chest pain or discomfort.
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FDA Approves Temporary Artificial Heart
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a partial artificial heart intended to keep people alive in the hospital while they are awaiting a heart transplant.
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Common Heart Surgery Drug Potentially Dangerous
Protamine, a drug used for more than 40 years immediately after coronary artery bypass surgery to return thinned blood to its normal state, has been shown to have more potential negative side effects than previously appreciated, according to Duke University Medical Center researchers.
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Heart Facts
When attempting to locate their heart, most people place their hand on their left chest. Actually, your heart is located in the center of your chest between your lungs. The bottom of the heart is tipped to the left, so you feel more of your heart on your left side of your chest.
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Simple Clues to Your Heart
You can tell how fast your heart is beating (heart rate) by feeling your pulse. Your heart rate is the amount of times your heart beats in one minute.
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What Are The Coronary Arteries?
Like all organs, your heart is made of tissue and requires a supply of oxygen and nutrients. Two major coronary arteries branch off from the aorta near the point where the aorta and the left ventricle meet.
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How Does The Heart Beat?
Your heartbeat is triggered by electrical impulses that travel down a special pathway through your heart. The electrical system of your heart is the power source that makes the heart bit possible.
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How Does Blood Flow Through The Heart?
Blood enters the heart through two large veins, the inferior and superior vena cava, emptying oxygen poor blood from the body into the right atrium.
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How Does Blood Travel Through The Body?
As the heart beats, it pumps blood through a system of blood vessels, called the circulatory system. The vessels are elastic tubes that carry blood to every part of the body.
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Where Is Your Heart and What Does It Look Like?
The heart is located under the rib cage, to the left of the breastbone (sternum) and between the lungs. Your heart is an amazing organ.
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