Babies born with otherwise-lethal single ventricle heart defects can gain decades of life from early surgical intervention, but their lives are still fraught with medical complications that ...

In the rarest of rare cases and a groundbreaking medical achievement, Medica Superspecialty Hospital in Kolkata achieved a ...

Compared with those who spent most of their time in a single room, people with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction ...

Compared with those who spent most of their time in a single room, people with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) who were able to travel outside of their home without assistance ...

“The human heart actually has multiple layers of helically aligned muscles with different angles of alignment,” said Huibin Chang, another co-first author. “With FRJS, we can recreate those complex ...

This isn’t a permanent fix. Single ventricle conditions like Cayden’s require at least three more open-heart surgeries using the heart-and-lung machine to permanently repair the heart.

The left ventricle has to work particularly hard ... lub-dub" sound of the heartbeat in your chest. Every single minute, your heart does this around 70 times. And it's all regulated by some ...

Heart Rate x Stroke Volume = Cardiac Output. is the total volume of blood pumped out by the left ventricle every minute. It can be calculated using the following equation: \(\text{cardiac output} ...