Carotid Artery Disease
Carotid artery disease affects the vessels leading to the head and brain (cerebrovascular disease). Like the heart, the brain’s cells...
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Cardiomyopathy
Cardiomyopathy means “disease of the heart muscle.” Cardiomyopathy damages the muscle tone of the heart and reduces its ability to...
Bundle Branch Block
Your heart has a natural “pacemaker” called the sinoatrial (SA) node which sends an electrical impulse throughout your heart to...
Brugada Syndrome
Brugada syndrome is an unusual genetic disorder of the heart’s electrical system. Although people are born with it, they usually...
Atrioventricular Canal Defect
Canal defect (also known as atrioventricular septal defect or endocardial cushion defect) means there is a large hole in the...
Atrial Septal Defect
A septal defect is a hole in the septum, the muscle wall separating the chambers of the heart. A septal...
Arrhythmia
Your heart pumps nearly 5 quarts of blood through your body every minute. Even while you are sitting still, your heart...
Aortic Stenosis
Stenosis means narrowing. Aortic stenosis (AVS) is a narrowing of the aortic valve, which is the valve that lets blood...
Diseases of the Aortic Valve
Diseases of the heart valves are grouped according to which valve or valves are involved and the amount of blood...
Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Also called “congestive cardiomyopathy,” dilated cardiomyopathy damages the muscle tissue that makes up the heart’s pumping chambers. If the chamber...
Diastolic Dysfunction
A heartbeat is a two-part pumping action that takes about a second. As blood collects in the upper chambers (the...
