The aorta, a large blood vessel responsible for transporting oxygenated blood from the heart to the rest of the body, plays a ...

Two common and potentially deadly heart diseases can be caused by mutations in the same gene. Surprisingly, though, these two ...

Cardiac Dimensions, a Kirkland, Wash., company with a technology to treat heart valve malfunction, has raised $53 million ...

A premature atrial contraction (PAC) occurs when a focus in the atrium (not the SA node), generates an action potential before the next scheduled SA node action potential. There are four main ...

Both diseases can be caused by changes (mutations) in the same gene that makes a protein called tropomyosin, which helps ...

Millions of people around the world live with cardiac arrhythmias. Only in Spain, it is estimated that more than one million ...

Millions of people around the world live with cardiac arrhythmias. Only in Spain, it is estimated that more than one million ...