Background: A 79-year-old woman was out in the garden having lunch on a hot summer day. She developed stabbing chest pains, more severe on her left side, associated with radiation down her left arm.

A 32-year-old primiparous woman underwent emergency caesarean delivery and subsequently developed peripartum takotsubo cardiomyopathy, necessitating transfer to a tertiary critical care and heart ...

The woman, a doctor, was fit and healthy, but even a small amount of exertion left her out of breath. By Lisa Sanders, M.D. It had been a tough hike, even for the experienced 74-year-old hiker. She ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Readouts of data on an experimental drug for hypertrophic cardiomyopathies showed the agent appeared safe and effective in long-term treatment and can significantly improve exercise ...

Optus network customers have reported more emergency triple-0 call failures outside the hours of recently confirmed outage periods in September. Those outages resulted in hundreds of emergency calls ...

Broken Heart Syndrome is a condition triggered by severe emotional or physical stress. This condition temporarily weakens the heart muscles as the flood of stress hormones like adrenaline, ...

In this Review, Zhao and colleagues summarize the major challenges in the implementation of preventative strategies for cardiovascular disease in China and discuss the potential value of digital ...

Not all chest pains mean you may have a heart attack. Despite the growing prevalence of cardiovascular disease across the world, doctors say more than half of the chest pains that are brought to the ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a major risk factor for mortality. The prevalence, clinical correlates, and prognostic impact of AF in Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) have not yet been investigated in a large ...

Not all cases of chest pain and breathlessness indicate a heart attack. Several conditions can mimic heart attack symptoms – a condition known as broken heart syndrome. While it may not always be life ...

Evidence of myocardial injury does not necessitate a diagnosis of myocarditis. When a cardiac troponin level is over the 99th percentile of the upper reference limit, 6 there exists a spectrum of ...