Articles on the heart and metabolism: blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, heart rhythm and the risk factors that link them. Chest pain, breathlessness or fainting need urgent care, not reading.
Follow-up imaging after endovascular surgery is scheduled because a stent graft can develop problems that cause no symptoms: blood leaking back into the aneurysm…
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in women, yet it is often recognized later than in men. Chest pain remains the most…
Recovery after heart bypass surgery typically unfolds over about 12 weeks. Most people spend a day or two in intensive care, around a week…
Regular monitoring visits for a cardiometabolic disorder track a small set of linked measures: blood pressure, blood sugar (usually A1c), a cholesterol panel, weight…
After a permanent pacemaker is implanted, most people are asked to keep the arm on the device side below shoulder height for roughly four…
After a carotid angiogram, most people lie flat for a few hours while the puncture site seals, drink extra fluids to help the kidneys…
Coronary angiogram results usually lead to one of three paths: medication and risk-factor control when narrowings are mild or stable; angioplasty with a stent…
Doctors decide by asking three questions: is the problem a bulge (aneurysm) or a tear (dissection), where on the aorta does it sit, and…
The main types of arrhythmia treatment are medicines that slow or steady the heartbeat or lower stroke risk, catheter ablation that scars the small…
An ICD, an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, is usually considered in cardiac sarcoidosis when someone has survived a dangerous ventricular rhythm, has a weakened heart pump…
Preparing a child for congenital heart surgery means learning the pathway in advance: the pre-admission tests, the fasting times the team gives in writing,…
Most people recovering from acute pericarditis are asked to avoid strenuous exercise until chest pain has gone and inflammation markers, ECG and echocardiogram have…
Cardiac ablation is usually considered for people whose abnormal heart rhythm keeps causing symptoms despite a fair trial of at least one rhythm-control medicine,…
People with lung sarcoidosis usually need a cardiology assessment when they have palpitations, fainting or near-fainting, unexplained breathlessness, or an abnormal ECG or echocardiogram.…
Recovery after aortic aneurysm repair depends mainly on the technique. After endovascular repair (EVAR) through the groin, people often leave hospital within a few…
A 4 cm aortic aneurysm is classed as small. In the largest surveillance trials, aneurysms between 4.0 and 5.5 cm ruptured at roughly 1%…
To prepare for coronary CT angiography, most people are asked to avoid caffeine for roughly 12 hours, stop eating about 4 hours beforehand while…
Deep vein thrombosis in pregnancy and after surgery is treated with anticoagulant medicines that stop the clot growing while the body slowly dissolves it.…
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