An estimated 4.2 million people die within 30 days of surgery worldwide each year. A new study suggests that deaths and ...

The first node sits in the peripheral nervous system. Sensory neurons in the vagus nerve detect damage in the heart and send signals upward. The researchers focused on a subset of vagal sensory ...

Background There is a lack of contemporary data describing patients with left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction post ...

A growing body of evidence shows that heart attacks can occur even when angiograms look normal. Cardiologists explain MINOCA, ...

A normal coronary angiogram does not always guarantee safety from a heart attack. Conditions like microvascular disease, ...

Scientists at Northwestern University and at the University of California San Diego have developed a potent injectable therapy that the results of rodent studies showed can protect the heart from ...

Credit: Getty Images A discussion of the use of beta-blocker therapy following AMI, with Christopher Granger, MD, Gregg Fonarow, MD, and Carlin S Long, MD. Beta blockers have long been included in the ...

A septal infarct is an area of dead tissue in the septum of the heart, which is a wall of tissue dividing the two sides of the heart. It happens when there is a blockage or reduction in its blood ...

For patients who present with essential hypertension and further symptoms of possible heart failure, it is important for physicians to consider and treat the patient's underlying disease. A ...

Brad Ross, a former City of Toronto official, just survived a "widow-maker" heart attack — and he's warning others not to "eff around and find out" before it's too late. Ross, who was the chief ...