Cardiovascular Disorders and Diseases Articles

Every disease may cause fear in patients, especially if it can lead to serious complications. That's the case with aortic disease, where little time is left for successful treatment. Here’s how to recognize the most important symptoms of aortic aneurysms.

Congenital conditions, advanced age, and even your sex and ethnic group can all increase your risk of an irregular heartbeat. But some risk factors are modifiable. What can you do to lower your risk of developing an arrhythmia?

If you've been diagnosed with an arrhythmia, your doctor may recommend some key lifestyle changes. Diet shouldn't be forgotten — and that doesn't just mean eating healthier foods, but also staying well away from damaging ones.

Inflammation of the aorta can be a very complex disease, and as such requires numerous medical specialties to work together, both in diagnosis and as well as its treatment. Treatment should start as soon as possible to avoid possible complications.

Alcohol septal ablation is an alternative to open-heart surgery (septal myectomy), used to treat obstruction in HCM patients. Fully understanding the benefits and the complications can help you make a well-informed decision.

Septal myectomy is a type of open-heart surgery used to treat obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Here's everything you should know about why it's needed, how it works, it's efficiency and possible risks.

High blood pressure is a very common health problem that can really affect your quality of life - especially if it gives you a stroke or a heart attack! Regular exercise is a hypertension remedy you may not have considered yet, but that can really work.

It doesn’t matter if you have systolic or diastolic heart failure — you will have to make the necessary lifestyle changes to slow down this condition, but also follow the doctor’s recommendations and take your medication as prescribed.

There are two main types of systolic congestive heart failure, depending on which ventricle of the heart they affect. Additionally, there is left-sided diastolic heart failure, which represents the third type.

While it’s true that heart failure treatment should start as soon as possible, with the right therapy and good lifestyle habits, people suffering from heart failure are much more likely to have a very good quality of life.