Avoid heart attack: Lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease with four foods. HEART attacks when the level of cholesterol in the body is too high, leading to heart disease. The leading cause of heart attacks is coronary heart disease – major blood vessels supplying the heart are blocked due to a deposits … Continue reading Avoid Heart Attack with top four easy access natural foods →

  Shortness of breath—what doctors call dyspnea—is the unpleasant sensation of having difficulty breathing. People experience and describe shortness of breath differently depending on the cause. The rate and depth of breathing normally increase during exercise and at high altitudes, but the increase seldom causes discomfort. Breathing rate is also increased at rest in people … Continue reading Shortness of Breath (Dyspnea) →

What is the association of alcohol consumption after the diagnosis of heart failure with survival among older adults? In this cohort study of 393 older adults with incident heart failure, consumption of 7 or fewer alcoholic drinks per week was significantly associated with increased survival compared with abstinence from alcohol, after controlling for other factors. … Continue reading Association of Alcohol Consumption After Development of Heart Failure With Survival Among Older Adults in the Cardiovascular Health Study →

Hearing loss is common among older adults and is associated with coronary heart disease and their risk potentials. However, the prevalence of hearing loss in adults with heart failure has not been well described. Heart failure is an incurable chronic disease and the leading cause of hospitalization in the elderly in the United States. To … Continue reading Link between Heart Failure and Hearing Loss →

There is no need to split the sternum, no extracorporeal circulation and a mitral valve repair in 25 minutes. January 19, 2018, the world’s first clinical completion of Fu Wai Hospital in Yunnan Province of MitralStitch ™ mitral valve repair system. Under the guidance of the academician Hu Shengshou of Fuwai Hospital, this case was … Continue reading MitralStitch ™, China First Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair →

Since December 2017, the mobile app “My 15” directly links patients to the emergency department of Moselle’s region in France. A valuable tool that improves the speed and accuracy of rescue. The concept ? A free phone app (available on Androïd and Appstore platforms) that allows you, in one click on the screen of your … Continue reading Emergency Smartphone App Tested to Rescue Patiences →

For the first time a French company has successfully implanted a new adjustable device to repair a heart valve defect in a human patient. This Thursday, Kephalios announces that it has successfully implanted at the Vienna General Hospital, Austria, the first adjustable Kalios ring, intended to restore the normal functioning of the mitral valve with closing … Continue reading Kephalios announces Implant Adjustable Mitral Ring on First Patient →

In India patients will be able to avail treatment using an enhanced external counter pulsation (EECP) equipment at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial (MGM) government hospital in Trichy from Saturday onwards. EECP is a non invasive treatment for patients with refractory cardiac failure, refractory angina, angina after bypass surgery, patients unwilling or unfit for surgery and … Continue reading EECP therapy available in Government Hospital in India →

Assist devices are not all suited for small people or for patients who are already frail. About 11 percent of those who receive LVAD can cause strokes. William Altman, CEO of Corinnova, says the Houston medtech company has developed a device called EpicHeart that avoids those issues. To further the device’s development, Corinnova says the … Continue reading Heart Failure Medical Device and Corinnova →