Heart disease

Heart disease

Heart diseases (heart attack, heart failure,) risk factors, treatment, prevention, and heart health.

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Cyanosis

Health care; Heart disease

A blue tint to the skin, indicating the body is not receiving enough oxygen-rich blood.

Aneurysm

Health care; Heart disease

A sac formed by the bulging of a blood vessel wall or heart tissue. When aneurysms grow too large, they can rupture and the bleeding can be life threatening. Aneurysms that have grown too large ...

Capillaries

Health care; Heart disease

Tiny blood vessels connecting arteries to veins. These blood vessels carry oxygen and nutrients to individual cells throughout the body.

A lead is a special wire that delivers energy from a pacemaker or implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) to the heart muscle. A lead extraction is the removal of one or more leads from inside ...

Anaemia

Health care; Heart disease

A condition characterised by a deficiency of red blood cells. anaemia reduces the amount of oxygen available to the body.

Positron emission tomography

Health care; Heart disease

An imaging procedure that uses radioactive tracers to create 3-dimensional pictures of the tissues inside of the body and can monitor metabolic processes.

Valvuloplasty

Health care; Heart disease

A procedure to improve valve function. Balloon valvuloplasty is when a balloon is used to at the time of cardiac catheterization to increase the area of a narrowed valve.