It's almost like taking a stab in the dark, but ablating one or more arrythmias within the human heart is a moment when ...

I only just heard the term “positive remodeling” for the first time last fall, and I assumed it was something, well, positive, like a self-mending process of some sort. But in the cardiac context of arterial remodeling, which refers to the build-up of plaque in the coronary arteries, positive remodeling is the worse of two types.

Although implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) have been around for nearly 20 years, they gained notoriety in 2001 when Vice President Dick Cheney became a high-profile patient who underwent the implantation procedure.

Magnetic navigation technology to direct and digitally control catheter and guidewire devices along complex paths within ...

Novelists and playwrights might call it a cruel irony — heroes who succumb to the powers of evil, true love tragically ...

Coronary bypass surgery, a difficult and painful way to repair major damage caused by coronary artery disease, may be on its way out — and it’s a long time coming for researchers like Douglas Losordo, M.D. After all, he’s spent the past 10 years looking into the possibilities of adult stem cell therapy as a viable alternative to the procedure.

An asymptomatic 75-year-old woman with a history of coronary artery disease, angioplasty, coronary artery bypass ...