In recognition of American Heart Month this February, MyMichigan will dedicate its Monday column to a series of educational articles about heart health. This week features heart failure. The Centers ...

Since high school when she had to trace a drop of blood through the body, Ida Urbano, 62, has been “fascinated by the heart.” ...

Members of the team spoke with the News about their experiences performing the BATMAN procedure and its future implications.

An Overview of Dilated Cardiomyopathy Heart Failure Congenital Heart Defect A malformation in the heart muscle, valves, or other structure in the heart that affects ... A transthoracic echocardiogram ...

The heart is a muscular organ roughly the size of your fist. As the heart muscle contracts, it propels the blood out into the vascular system. The heart’s chambers and valves are arranged to direct ...

Heart valve disease is when one or more do not work ... and Aberdeen using echocardiography, an ultrasound of the heart. Vassilios Vassiliou, clinical professor of cardiac medicine at UEA's ...

2006;9(10):691-696. The following sections present information about the most commonly implanted (contemporary) mechanical and bioprosthetic heart valves. The intent is to familiarize the reader ...

and the heart rate using a nomogram previously described. The timing of valve movements was recorded by Doppler ultrasound. The estimated pressure correlated well with that obtained at catheterisation ...

Tuesday was the Ohio Valley Health Center’s first day providing an in-house echocardiogram for one of its patients, through a ...

British cardiac patients will soon be fitted with heart valves that grow naturally within the body, marking a significant advance in treating heart disease. An initial group of over 50 patients ...

What is aortic stenosis in children? Aortic stenosis means that your child has a heart valve that is too narrow or is blocked. The aortic valve is 1 of 4 heart valves that keep blood flowing through ...