People who have early signs of heart problems may also have changes in brain health that can be early signs of dementia, such ...

The left-hand side pumps oxygenated blood around the body. Each side of the heart consists of an atrium and a ventricle which are two connected chambers. The atria (plural of atrium) are where the ...

A left ventricular aneurysm can form after a transmural myocardial infarction and involves dilation of the left ventricular wall in an abnormal fashion. Most commonly, the apex of the heart is ...

Affecting 1 in 500 people, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a condition in which the walls of the left ventricle, the heart's ...

The first biohybrid model of human ventricles has been used to answer a centuries-old question. Unlike other organs, the heart cannot repair itself after injury, so being able to engineer an entire ...

In addition, VADs unload the native heart allowing it to rest and ... and can support the right, left or both ventricles. Devices are implanted through a median sternotomy; in a LVAD, the inflow ...

This paper defends the thesis that the heart can also develop sports ... particularly high strain on the right ventricle (RV), which over time, may lead to a proarrhythmic state resembling right (or ...

The left-hand side pumps oxygenated blood around the body. Each side of the heart consists of an atrium and a ventricle which are two connected chambers. The atria (plural of atrium) are where the ...