heart
Less-invasive heart valve replacement tied to better quality of life
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement is an important minimally invasive treatment option for replacing the aortic valve that is narrowed.
Hyderabad receives two beating hearts after surgery complications
Seven-hour long operation saw the 56-year-old becoming one of only 150 people worldwide to have undergone such an operation.
Experts discover genetic cause of rare high blood pressure syndrome
Such a condition, if prolonged, damages blood vessels, which can result in damage to the heart, the kidneys, and the brain.
High levels of cellphone radiation linked to tumours in male rats
The concern with this type of radiation is that it produces energy in the form of heat.
Doctors warn of heart risk from some breast cancer therapies
Not all treatments carry these risks, and there may be ways to minimize or avoid some.
When palpitations lead to cardiac arrest
The functioning of our heart depends on the electric activities which creates the necessary impulses causing the heart to beat, pump blood.
Construction worker in Mumbai survives being impaled on two 5ft steel rods
Man from West Bengal who was in city for job survived accident despite one of the rods going straight through his liver.
Fitted with a battery-operated heart, 22-year-old has to charge it every night to survive
Jim has to charge it by plugging himself in through a hole in his torso and taking a shower also gets tricky for him.
Married heart patients more likely than singles to survive
In the widowed group, it may have to do with psychological and behavioral events that accompany life’s course.
More hospitalizations for heart failure patients in winter
Drastic change in temperature and atmospheric pressure is closely related to rate of hospitalization, death in elderly patients.