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Heart Diseases : Health & Medical
SES vs Brachytherapy for Bare Metal In-stent Restenosis
Are sirolimus-eluting stents still a viable treatment option compared with vascular brachytherapy for bare metal stent restenosis?
Hypertension and Risk for Dementia and Alzheimer Disease: The Evidence
Henry Black, MD, discusses a new study that has finally shed strong light on the connection, if any, between hypertension and later vascular dementia and Alzheimer disease.
What Are the Low Blood Pressure Symptoms?
Hypotension is a condition that appears when an individual's blood pressure (the pressure from the blood against the blood vessels walls) is lower than normal. This situation can cause the so called "low blood pressure symptoms", which include:Dizziness, or feeling of losing balance.
ICDs After Heart Attacks Don't Save Lives
Getting an ICD (implantable cardioverter defibrillator) implant soon after a heart attack doesn't improve survival, a new study shows.
Polypill and Risk of Vascular Morbidity and Mortality in CAD
Most patients with CAD use a combination of aspirin, a statin, and one or more BP-lowering agents. Is combination therapy with these agents associated with a lower risk of vascular events and total mortality?
Malignant Coronary Heart Disease
While coronary heart disease (CHD) is quite common, cancer of the heart, known as malignant CHD, is rare. A more specific form of the illness is malignant coronary artery disease, which affects blood flow due to narrowing of blood vessels.
Heart Murmur-Topic Overview
What is a heart murmur? A heart murmur is an extra sound that the blood makes as it flows through the heart. Your doctor uses a stethoscope to listen to your heartbeat. When you have a heart murmur,your doctor can hear an extra whooshing or swishing noise along with your heartbeat. It can be scary t
Statin Therapy Slows Progression of Arterial Thickening: Low-Risk CVD
ACC.07: These trial results seem to show that aggressive statin therapy slows progression of atherosclerosis, even in low-risk individuals; but do they support a new strategy?
Unprotected Left Main PCI
Find out more about the current understanding of unprotected left main coronary artery disease, with a particular focus on what recent clinical studies have added to this body of data.
Correct Heart Defects With the Amplatzer Septal Occluder
The Amplatzer Septal Occluder is a new device being used to correct heart defects causing a hole in the heart between the two upper chambers.This device is a safe and effective way to cover the hole and encourage the body to repair this defect itself.
Prasugrel Versus Clopidogrel for PCI Wthout Stent Implantation
A clear winner emerged in the TRial to assess Improvement in Therapeutic Outcomes by optimizing platelet inhibitioN with prasugrel (TRITON) - Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) 38.
How to Lower Your Cholesterol - Secrets That Really Work
If you want to prevent heart disease, you need to learn how to lower your cholesterol. Read this article to get little known secrets to maintaining cholesterol within safe range.
TROPICAL: Treatment of Patients With an In-stent Restenotic Native Coronary Artery Lesion
Should drug-eluting stents replace brachytherapy as the gold standard for the treatment of in-stent restenosis? Looks like that might just need to be the case.
What Are the Causes of Bradycardia?
The heart is the center of all our body's activities. Because of the things that it can do to the body, there are also several conditions that come with it if you do not take care of it properly. One of which is the condition called bradycardia.
Reasons for Warfarin Discontinuation in ORBIT-AF
Delve into the real reasons for stopping warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation.
Walnuts Good for Heart, High Cholesterol
Just like oily fish -- salmon, mackerel, and bluefin tuna -- walnuts and some other plant foods contain omega-3 fatty acids, say researchers.
Inappropriate Spironolactone Use in Heart Failure
Spironolactone is being used widely in HF without consideration of the NYHA class and ejection fraction, and without optimization of background treatment with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors.
Vagus Nerve Stimulation Suppresses Atrial Fibrillation
Will autonomic neuromodulation emerge as an alternative nonpharmacological, nonablative modality to treat paroxysmal AF?