Watchman requires 45 days of anticoagulation therapy post-implant. With Lariat, you do not need short-term anticoagulation therapy. However, not everybody...
The left atrium is dilated most likely because the left ventricle is thickened and has lost some “elasticity”.
Dear Raf: It is thought that most cases of myocarditis are mild and don’t get medical attention. For example we...
The LIMA has the best long term patency and effects late survival better than any other treatment for coronary artery...
Dear Tom, There is no data to answer your question. Most cardiologists are not fans of appetite suppressants since they...
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is regarded as one of the gold standards in the assessment of heart disease. In...
Dear Jennifer: A pulmonary artery can be enlarged without pulmonary hypertension.
No. They are often independent of one another.
It implies some injury to the heart from chronic ischemia and intermittent small areas of subendocardial infarction, but it also...
Fibrillation, the most serious form of arrhythmia (heart rhythm disorder), is fast, uncoordinated beats, which are contractions of individual heart-muscle...
They happen when the heart does not develop normally before birth. About 1% of infants are born with one or...
What is COPD? COPD is actually a group of lung conditions, most often emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Emphysema is a...
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