People with heart failure often need a test called right heart catheterization, where a tube is inserted into the heart to ...

New research published in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings has shown that patients who can complete a workout on a treadmill during a cardiac stress test have much lower mortality risk than those ...

Chest pain or palpitations can signal hidden heart trouble. Know when an ECG test is needed, what results show, and when to seek urgent care.

Your heart provides blood to all parts of your body. In order to determine if it’s pumping properly, your health care provider may order a cardiac stress test. It makes the heart pump harder and ...

When Krishna Patel, MD, ordered a cardiac stress test for an 80-year-old patient, she did not expect how the move — the standard of care for patients with elevated coronary artery calcium — would ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A noninvasive test to gauge a patient's risk for sudden death from cardiac arrest is as effective as a catheter-based procedure and less costly, according to a study released on ...

BEIJING, April 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Shineco, Inc. (SISI), a producer and distributor of Chinese herbal medicines, organic agricultural products and other biotech products, announced today that ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — A new study provides a glimpse of the shift over the past decade in the number of requests for nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) tests to determine areas of the heart with ...

Learn about sudden cardiac death risk in people with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, including risk factors, prevention methods, ...

If the person is lucky, medical help is close enough to get the heart beating again after it stops and before brain damage sets in, and the search for the hidden cause can begin. The less fortunate ...

EAST GREENBUSH, N.Y. (WTEN) — A New York woman is crediting a quick, simple medical test with finding a potentially deadly cardiac concern, despite her having an otherwise healthy lifestyle. “I was ...