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High blood pressue, high blood cholesterol and mitral valve prolapse (MVP) are three cardiac conditions that may affect your teenager. If a teenager complains of chest pain it should be brought to the attention of your pediatrician who will diagnose the problem.

With the recent deaths of actress Carrie Fisher, 60, and singer George Michael, 53, of heart-related problems, we asked Benjamin Abella, M.D., director of the Center for Resuscitation Science at the University of Pennsylvania, a few questions about cardiac conditions, and what can be done to save people who suffer from them, including advice about CPR.

Cardiac troponin (cTn) is the preferred cardiac biomarker used for the detection of myocardial injury.1 It can be used to facilitate the exclusion of acute myocardial infarction (MI) or its inclusion when there is a rising and/or falling pattern of cTn with at least one value >99th percentile.1 High-sensitivity cTn assays have been used clinically outside the United States for years. In January 2017, the US…

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Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is a medical emergency. It happens when an event, usually an electrical disturbance, quickly and unexpectedly [...]

People often use the terms heart attack, heart failure and cardiac arrest interchangeably. Read on to learn how all three, while linked, are different.

HIGH POINT, N.C. -- Heart valve disease, such as aortic stenosis, can be extremely serious and life-threatening. Aortic stenosis is a particularly common form of valve disease in the elderly population that can fortunately be screened for fairly easily, using an echocardiogram. Although the development of aortic stenosis may initially be slow and gradual, once the degree of stenosis becomes severe and patients develop signs of…

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Doctors, patients need to work together to prevent cardiac disease, experts say

"After my rehab stay, I am back home and comfortable being on my own and taking care of myself."

In rural New Hampshire, Veterans like Oscar and Richard are able to do home-based cardiac rehabilitation to avoid traveling long distances to see their docto...

A new treatment, chronic total occlusion angioplasty, helped Jacqueline Fowler get back to living a full life. Advanced cardiac care is routine at Spartanbur...

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Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory disorder characterized by the formation of noncaseating granulomas. Its etiology is unknown, and any organ may be affected, although cardiac involvement is associated with worse prognosis.1 Appropriately diagnosing and treating cardiac sarcoidosis remains an important goal because cardiac involvement may occur in up to 25%…

The Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute at Baptist Health recently completed a $120-million expansion, which includes new equipment and space to treat aneurysms, strokes, heart disease and other cardiovascular ailments in a less-invasive way.

A 13-year-old boy’s sudden cardiac death led doctors to wrongly diagnose more than 20 of his relatives with a potentially lethal heart disorder in a case that illustrates the potential for genetic testing to go wrong.

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Too much air pollution is linked to heart failure, arrhythmia, cardiac arrest, stroke, blood clots, and more.

A new study finds men who used a sauna at least twice a week were at much lower risk of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality than those who sauna bathed once a week.

The Image Gently Alliance has joined with a coalition of academic pediatric and cardiology organizations to raise awareness about the need to reduce radiation dose in pediatric heart imaging studies.

Experts say physicians need to do a better job of explaining the benefits of cardiac rehabiliation programs to get patients to use them more.