The ACC issued new guidance for managing common pediatric left-to-right shunts, including ASD, VSD, and PDA, in the ...

Nationally, there has been a rise in the number of children and adolescents with congenital and acquired heart disease ...

Heart disease is the leading cause of adult death worldwide, making cardiovascular disease diagnosis and management a global health priority.

Severe hypothyroidism and myxedema coma are frequently associated with left ventricular dysfunction, including impaired myocardial deformation and reduced ejection fraction. Severe hypothyroidism is ...

Demographic, systemic sclerosis (SSc)-specific, and cardiac factors raised the risk for left ventricular systolic dysfunction (LVSD) in a study of patients with SSc. Researchers used the Johns Hopkins ...

Vorticity, measured via new vector flow mapping (VFM), a quantitative marker of vortex dynamics, can reflect hemodynamic changes more sensitively, potentially offering complementary information to ...

To convert the values for urea nitrogen to millimoles per liter, multiply by 0.357. To convert the values for creatinine to micromoles per liter, multiply by 88.4. To convert the values for glucose to ...

Have you ever suspected your perfectly good gadget has a secret self-destruct timer, one that’s conveniently set to go off the moment its warranty expires? You're not just being paranoid. This ...

Panel A shows a cross-section of a normal heart (top) and an endomyocardial biopsy sample from a normal heart (bottom; with hematoxylin and eosin staining) that shows normal histologic characteristics ...

Objective: To assess cardiac function using two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography (2D-STI) in diabetic nephropathy (DN) patients and investigate the relationship between albuminuria and ...

AI-ECG and AI-stethoscope had an area under the curve of 0.94 and 0.98, respectively, for predicting left ventricular systolic dysfunction among women of reproductive age. HealthDay News — Artificial ...