At the University of Minnesota's heart lab, millions of dollars of tubing and wires and technology work to keep a living ...

If you clench your hand into a fist, this is approximately the same size as your heart. It is located in the middle of the chest and slightly towards the left. The heart is a large muscular pump ...

An increase in heart rate also allows for waste products to be removed. At rest a person's cardiac output is approximately 5 litres per minute, while during exercise it can increase to as much as ...

Cardiac MRI "provides the gold standard of cardiac function and anatomy unsurpassed image quality in evaluating heart structure and function in 3-D-quality moving images," Levine tells WebMD.

Did you know broken heart syndrome is real? Super stressful events, like a death or a divorce, can trigger chest pain. Spooky but true. If doctors removed your ticker, it would keep beating for a ...

In a previous column, we discussed pacemakers. In this one, we’ll continue on the general topic of heart regulation with information about implantable cardioverter-defibrillators.] An ...

The two-year Congenital Cardiac Surgery Fellowship at Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine is one of only 16 ACGME-approved congenital heart surgery fellowships in the United ...

Cardiovascular disease affects nearly half of the adults in the United States, posing a significant public health challenge.

The Cleveland Clinic detailed how the surgery is done: "A cardiologist (heart specialist) performs a cardiac ablation by inserting a catheter (tube) through a blood vessel to your heart," the site ...