Heart disease

Heart disease

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

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Idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis (IHSS)

Health care; Heart disease

An inherited disease that causes thickening of the heart muscle and other changes to the heart that significantly impair its function. Although the disease is rare, IHSS is the single most common ...

Sestamibi exercise stress test

A diagnostic study, which uses a small amount of radioactive tracer, injected into the body, and a special camera, which detects the radiation, released by the substance to produce a computer image ...

Ventricles

Health care; Heart disease

The lower, pumping chambers of the heart. The heart has two ventricles - the right and left ventricle.

Stent

Health care; Heart disease

A small stainless steel mesh tube, inserted after angioplasty, that acts as a scaffold to provide support inside the coronary artery.

Aerobic exercise

Health care; Heart disease

Exercise which can improve your functional ability and, in some cases, reduce symptoms of heart disease. It is repetitive in nature and involves the large muscle groups. Examples are walking, ...

Echocardiogram

Health care; Heart disease

An imaging procedure that creates a moving picture outline of the heart's valves and chambers using high-frequency sound waves that come from a hand held wand placed on your chest or passed down your ...