Since the donation of a SPECT camera by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a busy hospital in Brazil’s city of Niteroi has doubled its capacity to perform heart scans, expanding access to ...

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In patients with acute heart failure, it is unclear how body mass index affects clinical outcomes following acute myocardial infarction.

More frequent placement of central venous catheter seen for patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.

These include heart failure and high blood pressure in the vessels of the ... These might include: Chest X-ray. This shows the shape and size of the heart and structures in and around the chest.

(NEXSTAR) — Doctors revealed Sunday that blood tests for Pope Francis, the 88-year-old pontiff who has been hospitalized since Valentine’s Day after a weeklong bout of bronchitis worsened ...

"The heart is a hard-working pump, and heart failure often involves an energy crisis in which the heart can't summon enough energy to pump blood fast enough to meet the body's needs," says Page.

But with innovation comes challenges, particularly in understanding and controlling failure in these devices. A new study by mechanical engineers explores how programmed failure in heat-sealable ...

However, disease of the heart muscles can also cause heart failure, as can abnormalities of the rhythm of the heart. Such ailments can increase your risk of stroke or in the worst-case scenario, can ...

Here’s a selection of what readers have asked this week… Q: A CHEST X-ray found that I have an ... You were very reassuring to a lady with heart failure a few weeks ago.

The next time you have an interaction with one, please be kind. You were very reassuring to a lady with heart failure a few weeks ago. I don’t want to be a pest but it is hard to even speak to a ...