Aortic stenosis is a narrowing of the aortic valve that affects how blood flows through the heart and body. While not often linked to heart valve narrowing, high and irregular blood pressure can ...

With each heartbeat, blood courses through your body. Some traverse arteries from the lungs back to the heart, and some navigate through capillaries in the thinnest layers of your eyelid, almost ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a condition that thickens some of the heart’s muscles, making it harder to pump blood. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) usually affects the ventricular septum, ...

The University of Missouri's Cardiology Clinic in Jefferson City is now using a new, higher-precision radio isotope scan to more accurately gauge blood flow in the heart.

Filip Hammaréus, PhD student, and Petter Dyverfeldt, professor, at Linköping University. The research was performed at the Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization in Linköping, Sweden.

Researchers at the University of East Anglia have developed cutting-edge imaging technology to help doctors better diagnose and monitor patients with heart failure. The state-of-the-art technology ...

A heart PET scan is a noninvasive imaging test that uses a small amount of radiation. It helps doctors understand how the heart functions and whether it is healthy. Cardiac or heart PET scans create ...

When a doctor listens to the heart of a person with a heart murmur, they may hear a whooshing, swishing, humming, or rasping sound. This is due to rapid, turbulent blood flow through the heart.