He was in the late stages of rheumatic heart disease, which kills about 400,000 people a year worldwide. His scheduled heart surgery to address the illness had been postponed a day. By this point, ...

Each year, the American Heart Association (AHA), in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health and other government ...

A Cook County jury awarded $8 million to the family of a 67-year-old woman who died from a pulmonary embolism after a procedure to treat a problematic heart valve was allegedly delayed by her doctors ...

The heart is the most important organ in our body. It continues to work until the end of life and pumps blood to every part ...

The following is a summary of “Racial and Ethnic Variations in Patients Undergoing Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Surgery,” published in the August 2024 issue of Surgery by Winicki et al. Previous studies ...

However, Dr Kunal Sarkar, director and head of cardiac surgery at Medica Superspecialty Hospital ... “There are millions with ...

The family of 19-year-old man Nicholas Roma Tipungwuti, who died of a stroke in 2022, is suing the NT government for what ...

Dedicated to helping shape the future of healthcare design, Crist is an affiliate of the University of Kansas School of ...

I am a beneficiary of the IFMSA (International Federation of Medical Student Associations), during my medical education in ...

Drug-induced valvular heart disease (DIVHD ... ischaemic valve involvement), rheumatic VHD, Libman-Sacks endocarditis and congenital abnormalities. In mitral and tricuspid valve disease, a prominent ...

Vold, MD, PhD, a senior consultant and leader of inflammatory and fibrotic research area at Oslo University Hospital, shares critical insights into the risk factors and management of interstitial lung ...