A blocked coronary artery causing an acute heart attack must be opened immediately with a stent procedure. However, if other ...

Opening all blocked arteries with stents in patients with a heart attack, known as complete revascularization, reduces the ...

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most prevalent form of heart disease, affecting approximately 18 million adults in the ...

CONCORD, Calif. (KGO) -- Research being conducted here in the Bay Area could provide a major advance for heart patients. Surgeons at John Muir Medical Center in Concord are implanting patients with a ...

While most people think that heart attacks occur suddenly, the fact of the matter is that most heart attacks occur after ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Last October, on one of her walks with her dog, Emmett, 76-year-old Eileen Aviss felt tightness in her chest. She went home and Googled the symptoms to try to figure out what ...

Laser angioplasty is an invasive procedure that uses laser energy to remove plaque from arteries, offering an alternative to ...

Exercise is generally recommended as one of the top forms of prevention for heart disease, the leading cause of death in the U.S. and globally. Apart from helping to maintain a healthy weight, ...

While on vacation with his wife last year, Peter Sunwoo heard about a healthy acquaintance who had a heart attack at 39 years old. He and a friend had just turned 40, so they decided to get their ...

When Chris Abrunzo was in his early 20s, his father was struck by the kind of heart attack known as a "widow maker." The severe cardiac events are often fatal, and while Abrunzo's father survived, it ...

A new testing protocol identifies patients whose chest pain is heart-related even though their main heart arteries look ...