What do more than 2.6 million Americans have in common with All-Star San Francisco 49ers running back Michael Lewis?
Answer? They all have a cardiac condition known as atrial fibrillation (Afib or AF), the most common form of cardiac arrhythmia, which involves the upper two...
If you are an African American, on Medicaid or don’t have health insurance, you are less likely than other patients to get a drug-eluting stent (DES). Stents – which come in bare-metal and DES varieties – are mesh tubes that help prop open arteries after they are...
Unfortunately, once heart muscle cells die during a heart attack, the damage is irreversible. As a result, most heart attack victims – if they live long enough – will likely eventually pass away due to congestive heart failure, the nation’s leading cause of death.
...Given his long and arduous history of heart disease, Dick Cheney is lucky to still be alive.
More specifically, according to the former vice president’s cardiologist, Cheney is fortunate his lifetime of heart issues have coincided with the advent of several breakthrough...
For several decades, open-heart surgery has been the gold-standard technique for aortic valve replacement (AVR). Now, a new technique approved in Europe and under investigation in the United States – percutaneous heart valve (PHV) replacement – may prove at least...
iMobileWellness Releases iStentGraft Application for Mobile Users
As stent graft procedures become more prevalent, doctors and patients can use the iPhone application to access critical aortic stent graft information and make better health decisions
PHOENIX (Dec 28,...
We’ve talked a lot about aortic valve replacement and repair on our blog, but if you search Google news, you will find that another heart surgery-related topic is getting increased buzz: stent graft surgeries.
According to Wikipedia:
“a stent graft is a tubular device,...