Joanne Matos, 37, was born with an enlarged heart and has congestive heart failure. Despite a stroke and two silent heart ...

The first recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney died from cardiac causes 52 days after xenotransplantation. The world's first ...

A new biological patch, designed from heart cells grown in the laboratory, could bring a glimmer of hope in the treatment of ...

The harder your heart has to work to pump blood throughout your body while you're not exercising, the higher your resting ...

For 5 weeks, the tiny Impella kept Katrina Penney's failed heart pumping while a second heart transplant was secured.

Such techniques can be automatically applied using implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and offer the potential for painless termination of ventricular tachycardia (VT). Reduction in ...

February is American Heart Month. Sister Bay’s David Lienau wasn’t even aware that his heart health was in jeopardy. But ...

Left ventricular ... allowing optimization of heart rate (HR) and CO. Many patients will have permanent implanted devices, and regular interrogation can prevent competition between temporary and ...

If asked how she feels these days, 88-year-old Sara Joseph has words of hope. But preceding that hope was a night of despair. “I’m doing amazingly well,” she said in a recent interview. “I ...

Sponsoring Organizations: the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart ... off-pump and on-pump CABG provide insufficient evidence to warrant the conclusion that the off-pump ...

The term dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) refers to a spectrum of heterogeneous myocardial disorders that are characterized by ventricular dilation and depressed myocardial performance in the absence of ...