The nuclear stress test can show how blood flows through your heart muscles. This reveals how well the heart pumps blood and areas of your heart muscles that do not get enough blood. Nuclear stress is ...

Of the estimated 25 million Americans who suffer from coronary artery disease, fewer than 10 million have their problem neatly confined to a plug of fatty or chalky material in a single artery —what ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a condition that thickens some of the heart’s muscles, making it harder to pump blood. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) usually affects the ventricular septum, ...

With each heartbeat, blood courses through your body. Some traverse arteries from the lungs back to the heart, and some navigate through capillaries in the thinnest layers of your eyelid, almost ...

To be able to observe the blood flow in the artificial heart in real time in the MRI, the researchers an Linköping University had to build a full-scale model of the human circulatory system. Using ...

A heart PET scan is a noninvasive imaging test that uses a small amount of radiation. It helps doctors understand how the heart functions and whether it is healthy. Cardiac or heart PET scans create ...

Aerobic exercise retrains the vascular system, enhancing blood vessel flexibility and reducing systemic vascular resistance.

Heart valve regurgitation is the name for when the heart’s valves leak. It occurs when some of the blood the heart pumps out flows back to the valves. Treatment may not always be necessary, though ...

The incidence of heart attacks has increased. One reason for this is the buildup of plaque in the arteries, a condition ...