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Heart Failure
Heart failure is a condition in which the heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the body's needs.
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Heart Failure
Heart failure is when your heart can’t pump enough blood to meet your body’s needs. Learn about the different types of heart failure, and the treatments that can help you manage it.
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Heart Block
When you have heart block, there is interference with the electrical signals that usually move from the top chambers of your heart to the bottom chambers, telling your heart when to beat.
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Heart Murmurs
Heart murmurs may be caused by a number of factors or diseases, including defective heart valves, fever, and pregnancy. Read on to learn more about this condition.
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Pregnancy and Pre-existing Heart Disease
Pre-existing heart disease is a heart problem that you had before you got pregnant. This often means a heart condition that you were born with (congenital). These can include heart problems that may have been fixed. It can also include heart valve issues.
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Heart Valve Diseases
Heart valves can malfunction on one of two ways: They can fail to close completely, allowing blood to flow backward, or they can become damaged, limiting blood flow.
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Heart Failure in Children
Heart failure is when the heart can't pump enough blood to the body. In children, it is often caused by a congenital heart defect.
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Coronary Heart Disease
A person with coronary heart disease has an accumulation of fatty deposits in the coronary arteries. These deposits narrow the arteries and can decrease or block the flow of blood to the heart.
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Right Heart Catheterization
Right heart catheterization allows a surgeon to use a small, thin hollow tube called a catheter to examine your heart.
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Heart Transplant
A heart transplant is surgery done to remove the diseased heart from a person and replace it with a healthy one from an organ donor.
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Heart Attack: Signs and Symptoms
Millions of people suffer heart attacks every year. A heart attack can damage the heart’s function, and even lead to death. Learn what happens during a heart attack, and what signs to watch for.
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Heart Transplant Rejection
Your immune system's job is to seek out destroy foreign substances in the body. It destroys bacteria and viruses to help keep you healthy. Normally, this is a good thing, but sometimes the immune system's response can lead to problems.
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Rheumatic Heart Disease
Rheumatic heart disease is a condition where the heart valves have been permanently damaged by rheumatic fever.
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Transesophageal Echocardiogram
A transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) uses echocardiography to assess how well the heart works. During the procedure, a transducer (like a microphone) is lowered into the esophagus. It sends out ultrasonic sound waves at a frequency too high to be heard. When the transducer is placed at certain locations and angles, the ultrasonic sound waves move through the skin and other body tissues to the heart tissues, where the waves bounce or "echo" off of the heart structures.
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Heart Attack
A heart attack happens when the blood supply is cut off from the heart muscle, usually because of a blood clot. Without blood and oxygen, the muscle cells are damaged and die.
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Echocardiogram
An echocardiogram is a noninvasive (the skin is not pierced) procedure used to assess the heart's function and structures.
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Heart Murmurs in Children
Heart murmurs are extra or unusual sounds made by blood moving through the heart. Many children have heart murmurs. Some cause no problems or go away over time. Others require treatment.
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Atrial Flutter
Atrial flutter is an abnormal heart rhythm that causes the atria to beat more quickly than they should.
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Arrhythmias in Children
An arrhythmia is an abnormal rhythm of the heart. In an arrhythmia, abnormal electrical signals through the heart muscle may cause the heart to beat too fast (tachycardia), too slow (bradycardia), or irregularly. Read on to learn more.
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Fetal Heart Monitoring
Fetal heart rate monitoring measures the heart rate and rhythm of your baby (fetus). This lets your healthcare provider see how your baby is doing.
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Tests to Diagnose Heart Problems
Here's a look at just a few of the tests that have been used or are being used to understand and identify cardiovascular disease.
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Congenital Heart Disease
Heart problems are the most common kind of birth defects. While children with some heart defects can be monitored by a doctor and treated with medicine, others will need to have surgery.
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Cardiomyopathy and Your Child
Cardiomyopathy is any disease of the heart muscle. It causes the heart to lose its ability to pump blood as it should.
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