The Hybrid Heart, a soft robotic total artificial heart, offers a breakthrough in treating end-stage heart failure with ...

Eating heart-healthy foods and taking blood pressure medication may help lower your overall blood pressure over time, including your diastolic blood pressure. If you have high blood pressure, a ...

This study presents compelling evidence that the denitrosylase SCoR2 regulates cardioprotective metabolic reprogramming in the heart following ischemia/reperfusion injury. The findings are supported ...

Induction of foetal asystole refers to the medical procedure that intentionally causes the cessation of the foetal heart (cardioplegia). In the context of abortions at advanced gestations, ...

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is when your blood travels through blood vessels with more force than is considered healthy. When blood pressure is high, it can damage artery and blood ...

The diverse causes of right-sided heart failure (RHF) include, among others, primary cardiomyopathies with right ventricular (RV) involvement, RV ischemia and infarction, volume loading caused by ...

Credit: Getty Images A 65-year-old woman presents to her primary care provider with a chief complaint of "feeling winded" for the last 3 weeks. A 65-year-old woman presents to her primary care ...

To do this, the aortic valve must maintain durability and strength in response to changes in mechanical stresses during the cardiac cycle; ensuring that the valve orifice is open during ventricular ...

4 Even in the normal subject, several mechanisms are involved: Decline of the myocardial active state following systole. Passive effects of connective tissue. Compression or extension of connective ...