Heart failure occurs when the heart can't pump blood as well as it should. It can affect either the left side of the heart (left-sided heart failure) or the right side (right-sided heart failure).

At diagnosis, patients with left-sided and right-sided breast cancer had the same estimated 10-year risk (both 7%) of developing coronary artery disease. At a median time of 12 years post-RT (range, 2 ...

Device manufacturer Abiomed has recalled the labeling for various models of its left-sided heart pumps due to the potential for the pump catheter to perforate the left ventricle’s wall, the US Food ...

Physicians with more experience are better able to detect a third heart sound that is an indicator of heart disease, according to a study on stethoscope accuracy in cardiac patients at UCSF Medical ...