The procedure marked several world firsts. It was the first ventricular ablation to be guided by real-time MRI, and it was ...

Holston Valley Medical Center is the first hospital in East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia and Southeast Kentucky to offer ...

People with a certain heart valve abnormality are at increased risk of severe heart rhythm disorders, even after successful valve surgery. The condition is more common in women and younger patients ...

People with a certain heart valve abnormality are at increased risk of severe heart rhythm disorders, even after successful valve surgery. This is according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet ...

Abstract: Automated auscultation and cardiovascular screening systems for cardiac abnormalities have received growing ... uniquely treating each heart valve recording as a distinct token. Our approach ...

The FDA never commented on this. Or an elderly patient takes this — or anyone at risk, people with congenital heart conditions like a bicuspid aortic valve, which 1.5% of the population has and ...

To prevent blood from moving back into the body, other veins have valves that close as the blood flows past them. Blood is pulled forward from the IVC all the way up to the heart due to the ...

The symptoms of cardiac arrest come on suddenly and must be treated with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and a defibrillator immediately. Any delay in care increases one's risk of death. According ...

The extent of cardiac damage has been shown to be associated with increased mortality, repeat hospitalization, and decreased quality of life after aortic valve replacement (AVR ... all-cause ...

On May 10, 2005, I woke up in Boston Children’s Hospital after open-heart surgery, uncertain about my future. I had just received a St. Jude artificial aortic valve, and the ticking sound in my ...

Edgewise Therapeutics' hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) asset has resulted in “rapid and clinically meaningful” reductions of a measure of obstruction of the heart’s valves. The biotech has ...