Heart Disease Medical Reference
- What to Know About Recovery From Coronary Bypass Surgery
After coronary bypass surgery, recovery can take anywhere from six to 12 weeks. Talk to a doctor before returning to work or resuming exercise.
- What to Know About Non-Surgical Procedures for Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)
What to know about heart blockage treatment without surgery. Learn about treating CAD non-surgically.
- Can I Get a Massage if I Have Peripheral Artery Disease?
Can it help ease pain and fatigue in your legs? And is it safe? Here’s what research tells us.
- What Is an Endarterectomy?
This surgery opens blocked blood vessels. Find out what to expect before, during, and after the procedure.
- Peripheral Artery Disease vs. Peripheral Venous Disease
Both conditions affect blood vessels. But what are the key differences in symptoms, treatment, and more?
- What Is Revascularization?
There are several types of this treatment for blood vessel problems like peripheral artery disease. Here’s what to expect.
- What to Know About Diet for Coronary Artery Disease
Eating plenty of fruits and vegetables can help prevent coronary artery disease. Learn which heart-healthy foods can set you on track for a successful diet.
- Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) and Pregnancy
While peripheral artery disease (PAD) is rare in pregnant women, there's a link between PAD and pregnancy complications. Find out about this connection.
- Improve Poor Leg Circulation
Improve circulation in your legs with exercise, diet, and other healthy habits. Learn about ways you can improve blood flow.
- Supplements for PAD
PAD causes inflammation in the layers of your blood vessel walls. Find out which supplements might be helpful and which could be harmful with PAD.
- Can Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) Be Reversed?
Lifestyle changes, medication, and more can slow PAD's progression and even reverse symptoms. Learn more about how to manage PAD.
- Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) and Women
Experts believe that PAD affects 20%-30% of women over the age of 70. Yet PAD is underdiagnosed in women. Learn more about women and PAD.
- What Is Acute Coronary Syndrome?
Learn what acute coronary syndrome is, the types there are, its common symptoms, and more.
- What Is the Difference Between Atherosclerosis and Arteriosclerosis?
Find out the differences between atherosclerosis and arteriosclerosis, and discover the signs, treatments, and how it may affect health.
- What to Know About Medications to Treat Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)
Find out what you need to know about medications for coronary artery disease, and discover the risks and side effects, and how it may affect health.
- What to Know About Drug-Eluting Stents
Find out what you need to know about drug-eluting stents, and discover the procedure, risks, benefits, and how it may affect health.
- What Is Percutaneous Coronary Intervention?
Percutaneous coronary intervention is a procedure that opens up clogged arteries. Learn about the types, the risks, and what to avoid after the procedure today.
- Tips for Living With Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)
Find out some basic tips for preventing heart attacks and living a healthy and full life with coronary artery disease (CAD).
- What Is the Lazarus Phenomenon?
The Lazarus phenomenon is when a person who seems to be dead shows signs of life again. How does it happen? And is it always reported?
- Heart Tests: Getting a Diagnosis
Learn more about the different types of tests that can help your doctor diagnose a heart condition.
- When Heart Palpitations Are an Emergency
Heart palpitations can happen for many reasons. Learn how to know when a fluttering or pounding heart is an emergency.
- Peripheral Artery Disease and Diabetes
What's the link between peripheral artery disease and diabetes? Find out why diabetes increases your risk for this condition and what you can do to avoid it.
- What Is Atrioventricular Reentrant Tachycardia? (AVRT)
Heart beating too fast? It could be atrioventricular reentrant tachycardia (AVRT), a condition caused by an extra connection between the upper and lower chambers of your heart. Find out what causes it and how to treat it.
- What Is CPVT (Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia)?
Get the facts on a heart rhythm condition called catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT), including its causes, diagnosis, and treatment.
- Stokes-Adams Syndrome
Stokes-Adams syndrome is a condition where you suddenly feel faint and can lose consciousness. It’s caused by a change in your heart rate.
- What Is Ventricular Trigeminy?
In a normal heart rhythm, your heartbeat is steady and even. But sometimes, an extra heartbeat can disrupt the rhythm. A pattern of three beats is called trigeminy, and it happens in many healthy people.
- What Is Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia?
Does your heart seem to beat fast for no reason? You might have paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia. It’s caused by an issue in the upper chambers of your heart. Learn more about this condition and when to get treatment.
- Junctional Tachycardia
Does your heart seem to beat fast for no reason? You might have junctional tachycardia. It’s caused by an issue in the upper and lower chambers of your heart. Learn more about this condition and when to get treatment.
- Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia
Does your heart seem to beat fast for no reason? You might have inappropriate sinus tachycardia. Learn more about this condition and when to get treatment.
- What Is an Ectopic Beat?
Find out what might trigger an ectopic beat -- also called an early, missed, or extra heartbeat -- and how you can treat it.
- What Is Asystole?
Asystole is when your heart stops beating, or when you flatline. Learn more about this condition and if it can be reversed.
- Ventricular Fibrillation (VFib)
Ventricular fibrillation, or VFib, stops your heart from pumping blood. It can be fatal if you don’t get treatment right away. Here’s how to reduce your risk and boost your chance of survival.
- Transesophageal Echocardiogram
A transesophageal echocardiogram, or TEE, is like an ultrasound of your heart taken from the inside. Find out how this test works and how to prepare.
- How to Lower Your Heart Rate
Your resting heart rate is key to your overall health and well-being. Learn why a lower heart rate is important for your health and ways to lower your heart rate.
- Steps for Heart Health
Get started today on these ways to keep your heart healthy. They will help prevent heart disease in the years to come.
- How to Keep Tabs on Blood Pressure and Cholesterol
What are the best ways to know what your blood pressure and cholesterol levels are? How often should you do this? And can you take these tests at home? Get the facts.
- What Is Long QT Syndrome (QT Prolongation)?
With LQTS, your heart takes longer to recharge after each beat, and symptoms can be scary. But your doctor can help.
- Heart Attack Medicines: What to Know About Side Effects
Medicines can prevent you from having another heart attack, but they do have risks. Find out which side effects each heart drug causes, and how to manage them.
- 6 Symptoms You Shouldn’t Ignore
Most aches and pains aren't a big deal. But there are a few symptoms that should be checked out by your doctor right away.
- What to Know About Artery Spasms
Coronary artery spasms are a medical condition where your artery temporarily either blocks off or decreases blood flow to your heart. Learn about what brings them on, how they're treated, and more.
- Widowmaker Heart Attack: Why Is It So Dangerous?
The widowmaker is one of the deadliest of heart attacks. But quick emergency treatment can save your life.
- Bundle Branch Block: What to Know
If you have a bundle branch block, it may cause a glitch in the electrical impulses that make your heart beat.
- What Is an IABP?
An IABP (Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump) is an inflatable device helps boost your blood flow if your heart is weak. Learn more about the procedure, benefits and risks, and recovery.
- What Is Aortic Valve Replacement Surgery?
If your doctor says you need surgery to replace your heart’s aortic valve, this is why you need it and what you can expect from the procedure and recovery.
- Broken Heart Syndrome
WebMD discusses broken heart syndrome, a condition that occurs when stress and a troubled mind affect the heart, causing symptoms that can mimic a heart attack.
- What Are the Treatments for Aortic Stenosis?
Treatment options for your aortic stenosis range from careful monitoring to surgery.
- How Severe Is Your Aortic Stenosis?
It’s common to have this heart valve disease long before any symptoms show up. Even so, not everyone will have the same signs -- or need the same treatment.
- Atrial Fibrillation (AFib) & Normal Sinus Rhythm: Are They Interconnected?
When your heart is working like it should, your heartbeat is steady with a normal sinus rhythm. When it's not, you can have the most common irregular heartbeat, called AFib.
- What to Know About Shock
What affects your body going into shock? While there are different types of shock, they occur because your blood flow is disrupted.
- What to Know About Myoglobin
Myoglobin is a protein that helps store oxygen in your muscle tissues. Learn about normal levels of myoglobin and what it means to have high amounts in your blood.