Willis was told she had a congenital condition, meaning she was born with the hole in her heart. It was closed during a ...

At age 51, I was diagnosed with severe rheumatic mitral stenosis. After a second round of tests, treatment was changed from open-heart surgery to balloon valvuloplasty. What can I do to help the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients with atrial fibrillation and high risk for stroke and bleeding, left atrial appendage occlusion was ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) don’t reduce device-related thrombosis (DRT) compared with dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) following left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO), but ...

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Patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation (AF) at the time of mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (M-TEER) for severe mitral regurgitation are more than twice as likely to die or be ...

Introduction: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a common genetic cardiac disease marked by abnormal ventricular hypertrophy. Recent studies have highlighted that left atrial (LA) ...

Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has metastasized to the bone, his office announced this week. The 82-year-old left office earlier this ...

Nearly two-thirds of patients with left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) — in which the heart struggles to relax and fill with blood between heartbeats — also have pulmonary hypertension, a ...

JACKSON, Tenn. — Jackson-Madison County General Hospital now offers a new therapy to treat patients with advanced atrial fibrillation, who until recently had very few treatment options. One in 4 ...