Dying of a broken heart was just a figure of speech until 2002 when Dr. Hikaru Sato and colleagues at Hiroshima City Hospital described it in a study. Sato named the condition takotsubo cardiomyopathy. It was quickly dubbed ...
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While lower vertebrates can repair their adult hearts after a heart attack, mammals—including humans—cannot. The ability to regenerate dead muscle tissue in mammalian hearts disappears just a few days after birth because ...
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Patients treated with the blood thinner edoxaban for six months after a heart valve replacement procedure experienced fewer symptomless blood clots inside the heart valve replacement than patients who were treated with two ...
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For patients with severe heart failure that cannot be controlled with medicine, a pacemaker or other treatments, a ventricular assist device can be an option. Dr. Robert Scott, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist, explains how this ...
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Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), also called diastolic heart failure, affects 3 million Americans. Despite being the most common type of heart failure in the United States, effective treatments remain ...
Feb 1, 2022
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Subtle changes in the structure and the diastolic function of a person's heart between early adulthood and middle age may be associated with a decline in thinking and memory skills. The research is published in the January ...
Jan 26, 2022
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Heart function recovery returned within three months in children who developed COVID-19-related multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C), according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
Jan 19, 2022
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At an Arizona baseball diamond 10 years ago, a 13-year-old baseball player turned to bunt a ball that instead struck his chest. Taking two steps towards first base, he collapsed and died from commotio cordis, the second leading ...
Jan 12, 2022
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Researchers from the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences at King's College London have for the first time revealed the impact of obesity on the heart's anatomy for young children, specifically how the heart ...
Jan 11, 2022
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The unique beat of each person's timed ticker has been pronounced just as identifiable as a fingerprint by some biotech companies. And while each heart may beat to a different rhythm, this rhythm should remain steady—patterned ...
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