A heart murmur is, as the name suggests, a sound that occurs during a heartbeat, caused by rapid, turbulent blood flow ...

"The best way to tackle fear of cardiac testing would be to ask the patient exactly what they're afraid of," said Weininger ...

Two parents from Toronto, Canada, were excited to bring their newborn daughter home from hospital, but just a few weeks later ...

The death of a young man, all of 175 kg and 6’2” tall, while doing a workout in a Faridabad gym, has added to speculation ...

PanEcho isn’t yet ready to be a standalone tool, researchers say, but shows promise at improving workflows and patient care.

Background Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a complex clinical syndrome in which signs and symptoms of heart failure (HF) occur despite a normal left ventricular ejection ...

A normal resting heart rate for adults ranges from 60 to 100 beats per minute, but there are lifestyle changes you can make in order to slow it down if it's too high Comments 0 News ...

A normal ejection fraction is over 50 to 55 per cent. If your ejection fraction is below 49 per cent, it’s a sign that your heart is not pumping as well as it should be. However, while ejection ...

This opening allows oxygen-rich blood from the left atrium to mix with oxygen-poor blood in the right atrium, forcing the heart to work harder than normal. During fetal development, several ...

The S1 sound is made when the mitral and tricuspid valves close, preventing blood from backflowing into the atria. The diastolic sound (S2) is the second sound heard during normal heart sounds. S2 is ...

BACKGROUND: Patients with abnormal (positive) exercise electrocardiography, but normal stress echocardiography (+ECG/−Echo), have an increased risk of adverse cardiovascular events compared with ...

An echocardiogram is an ultrasound test to evaluate the heart. It uses high-frequency sound waves (ultrasound) to produce live images, or "echos," of the heart and its components, including the ...