Heart Diseases & Conditions Archives

Diabetes is a condition where the body cannot make or respond properly to the hormone insulin. According to the American Diabetes...

Cyanosis is a condition in which the lips, fingers, and toes appear blue. It happens in some people with congenital...

Sometimes a coronary artery (one of the vessels supplying blood to the heart muscle) goes into spasm. This is also...

CAD most often results from a condition known as atherosclerosis, which happens when a waxy substance forms inside the arteries...

A coronary artery anomaly (CAA) may relate to the origin (where the artery “springs up” in the heart) or the...

Swelling (inflammation) is your body’s natural reaction to an injury. Inflammation can happen anywhere—on the skin, within the body, and...

Studies have led to better therapies and more information about the heart after a heart attack or myocardial infarction (MI)....

An aneurysm is a balloon-like bulge in an artery. Aneurysms happen when the artery has a weak spot, and the...

Stenosis means narrowing. Pulmonary stenosis is a narrowing of the valve that lets blood flow from the lower-right chamber (the...

The word “atresia” means “no opening.” With pulmonary atresia, the valve that lets blood flow from the lower-right chamber (the...

A septal defect is a hole in the septum, which is the muscle wall that separates the heart’s left and...

Your peripheral arteries and veins carry blood to and from your arm and leg muscles and the organs in and...