Chest-band devices, which detect the electrical activity of your heart Tips to Lower Your Heart Rate If your resting heart rate is high, there are some steps that may help you lower your pulse: Stay active Becoming more active or simply moving around more can help your heart overall. Your...
When is heart ablation surgery needed? Cardiac ablation is done to correct arrhythmia, orabnormal heart rhythms. The procedure involves inserting catheters in the veins or arteries that reach your heart to deliver heat or freezing energy to destroy the abnormal electrical signals and restore regular ...
My heart, my choice? how to improve the patient engagement in decision-making for catheter ablation of atrial fibrillationdoi:10.1093/eurjcn/zvae171Cano-Valls AlbaGuasch EduardEuropean Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
Breast cancer awareness holds a special place in my heart, particularly because I am a breast cancer survivor. This personal connection has deepened my commitment to raising awareness for all my patients.Recently, I had the opportunity to be interviewed by Women’s Health, where I discussed the...
Usefulness of Visfatin as a Predictor of Atrial Fibrillation Recurrence After Ablation Procedure Visfatin is an adipokine produced by visceral fat tissue and takes part in fibrosis and inflammatory response. In the heart muscle, it is connected with the progression of atherosclerosis. Currently, there ...
59 Strain imaging using echocardiography has only moderate diagnostic capacity to detect fibrosis, because it focuses on functional measures, rather than tissue characteristics.60 CMR plays an important role in establishing diagnosis, etiology, quantifying the scar burden, assessing ventricular function, ...
We also examine the role of these devices in the remote screening and diagnosis of common cardiovascular diseases, such as arrhythmias, and in the management of patients with established cardiovascular conditions, for example, heart failure. To date, challenges such as device accuracy, clinical ...
15 Indeed, it is reasonable to assume that heart failure would progress unchecked (despite pharmacologic therapy) with death and/or profound disability inevitable in a substantial proportion of patients with HCM for whom surgical myectomy (or alcohol septal ablation) were unavailable. In this way, ...
The tonsilsare designed to detect and fight infections. They are located at the back of the mouth on each side of the throat (oropharynx). They are also called the palatine tonsils. Like other infection-fighting tissue, the tonsils swell while they are fighting bacteria and viruses. Often, ...
The tonsilsare designed to detect and fight infections. They are located at the back of the mouth on each side of the throat (oropharynx). They are also called the palatine tonsils. Like other infection-fighting tissue, the tonsils swell while they are fighting bacteria and viruses. Often, ...