Day and night, the muscles of your heart contract and relax to ... Blood flows through the left atrium into the left ventricle. The left ventricle pumps the oxygen-rich blood to all parts of ...

an inherited heart muscle abnormality. It causes the left ventricle walls to thicken and stiffen, which could lead to diastolic heart failure. Certain inherited forms of amyloidosis can lead to ...

Affecting 1 in 500 people, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a condition in which the walls of the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber, become abnormally thick. "HCM is one of the ...

By inflating and deflating in rhythm with the heartbeat, the IABP assists with blood flow to the heart muscle and takes some ...

In the United States, obesity is estimated to cause between 280,000 and 374,000 deaths each year and more than $170 billion ...

Both diseases can be caused by changes (mutations) in the same gene that makes a protein called tropomyosin, which helps ...

Scientists used echocardiography — images of the heart obtained with an ultrasound scan — and found that, of all study participants, rowers had the thickest left ventricular wall. This is the layer of ...

At three months of follow-up, patients hospitalized for a serious heart attack who were treated with the oral blood thinner ...

Edgewise Therapeutics shares tumbled more than 20% Wednesday after the developmental drug company issued the results of its ...

Across the study, two patients experienced “serious adverse events of atrial fibrillation (AF) requiring cardioversion,” ...