Articles, tagged with "heart valve disease", page 1

About Heart Valve Replacement Surgery

Heart valve disease is a condition where one or multiple valves in the heart do not function properly. In a healthy heart the valves open and close once during each heartbeat which ensures blood flows in the right direction. However, valves can fail to op... Read >
Author: sharondarochelle40

Heart Valve Defects and Treatment Options

The valves of the human heart prevent blood from flowing backwards as it is pumped through the body – ensuring healthy blood flow and optimum distribution of oxygen and nutrients throughout the body. However, a number of heart defects affecting the valve... Read >
Author: Bhumika

Protein Does Not Indicate Heart Failure Risk, Study Finds

A recent study has found that certain proteins are not an early indication of heart failure among patients as previously thought. A study published in the January 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association has shown than monitoring the ... Read >
Author: LegalView

tablets to help in weight loss-is it any good?

Recent studies have shown that more people are getting overweight every year. This happens not only to adults but even to kids who have just started in school. There are many factors that have contributed to this such as the rise in the number of fa... Read >
Author: tomer h.

Interventional Cardiology surgery India – types of surgery & cost in India

Interventional Cardiology surgery india Interventional cardiology refers to various non-surgical procedures for treating cardiovascular disease. Interventional cardiologists use catheters - thin, flexible tubes - to get inside blood vessels for diagn... Read >
Author: WeCareIndia

Heart Valve Disease surgeons in India – by internationally experienced Surgeons

Heart Valve Disease treatment in India Heart valve disease is also called as Valvular Heart Disease.The heart has two halves, a left and right each with 2chambers the atrium and the ventricle. Between the chambers are the heart valves which ensure th... Read >
Author: WeCareIndia

Weight Loss Drugs

Obesity is fast becoming the number one health problem in developed and developing countries worldwide, the problem is now affecting a large number of school-age children. For some, this decision is simple, and they just write a check for the operation, w... Read >
Author: 3dcommunications

What Weight Loss Diet Pills Can Cause

Recent studies have shown that more people are getting overweight every year. This happens not only to adults but even to kids who have just started in school. A lot of factors cause this to happen such as genetics, overeating, the type of food taken ... Read >
Author: JonJG

Are You Completely Sure Weight Loss Pills are What You Want?

Studies are showing that there is a marked increase in weight gain every year, not only amongst adults but, more worryingly, children also. There are many reasons that this is happening, fast food has never been more available than today and at such af... Read >
Author: Daniel Major

Notable Dangerous Drug Recalls and Lawsuits

Millions of Americans today depend on prescription drugs to regulate cholesterol and blood pressure, diabetes, bacterial infections, and allergies. Unfortunately, some are determined dangerous after some time and result in drug recalls or lawsuits filed b... Read >
Author: Daniel Berry

Scientists Uncover The Heart Beats to Its Own Drum

Copyright (c) 2009 Katie Kelley In a December issue of the science journal Cell Metabolism, researchers reported on recently discovered evidence that the heart may in fact "beat to its own drummer." Scientists from the University of Utah and the Sal... Read >
Author: LegalView

Information on Idiopathic Pulmonary Hypertension

Idiopathic pulmonary hypertension also called is Pulmonary hypertension Pulmonary hypertension is an abnormal altitude of the pressure in the pulmonary flow caused by the constriction of the blood vessels that supply blood to the lungs. Pulmonary hyperten... Read >
Author: Juliet Cohen

What is Atrial Fibrillation and Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation

Atrial fibrillation (AF or afib) is a cardiac arrhythmia (abnormal heart rhythm) that involves the two upper chambers (atria) of the heart. It can often be identified by taking a pulse and observing that the heart beats don't occur at regular intervals, b... Read >
Author: peterhutch

How To Test For Heart Failure

Each year, 5 million Americans will suffer from heart failure, a condition in which the heart can't pump blood to other organs in the body. The root cause is not simply a matter of "blocked pipes" or genetics. Culprits behind this include narrowed art... Read >
Author: MIKE SELVON

Heart Murmur – Symptoms, Causes and Treatment

A heart murmur is a whooshing sound between the beats that a doctor hears through a stethoscope. The whoosh is just an extra noise that the blood makes as it flows through the heart. Doctors usually discover murmurs during regular checkups or when kids se... Read >
Author: peterhutch

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