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Chat With a Doctor: Heart Failure and Cardiac Rehabilitation
Register for Online Chat Do you have a question about heart failure and cardiac rehabilitation? Viviana Navas, MD, interventional cardiologist and heart failure specialist, and David Wolinsky, MD,...
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Chat With a Doctor: Heart Valve Diseases and Conditions
Register for Online Chat Do you have a question about heart valve disease and conditions? Edward Savage, MD, Chairman of the Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiac Surgery, Cleveland Clinic...
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Cleveland Clinic Receives Heart Failure GOLD Recognition
For the second year in a row, Cleveland Clinic has received the GOLD Certification from the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Heart Failure Recognition Program. The GOLD recognition...
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Matters of the Heart
Lee Hoaglan, from Seneca County in New York, was told that he was at the end of his life. After suffering from progressive heart failure, doctors advised him to check in to hospice as his fourth...
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Study: Heart Issues with Herceptin® for Breast Cancer
A recent study shows that a common breast cancer drug may have a greater chance of causing heart issues for older women than previously believed. Herceptin® is known to help breast cancer patients live...
View ArticleNew Research: Breath Test Detects Heart Failure
Heart failure can be detected by a single exhaled breath, according to a new study lead by Cleveland Clinic’s Raed Dweik, MD, of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine. Results of the study...
View ArticleAnemia Drug Not Effective For Heart Failure
A drug commonly used to treat anemia in heart failure patients isn’t what it’s cracked up to be. Turns out, darbepoetin alfa (Aransep®), does not improve patients’ health or reduce their risk of death...
View ArticleNon-Invasive Therapy Relieves Chest Pain
Improving blood flow without surgery or medications may seem impossible, but a unique outpatient therapy called Enhanced External Counterpulsation (EECP) is proving effective. It is an option for some...
View ArticleTag-teaming Heart Failure
Living with heart failure can be tough. It can’t be cured. But it can be controlled, improving your quality of life. You don’t have to go it alone. If your primary doctor is part of patient-centered...
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7 Ways to Shop and Cook Low-Sodium
“Cut the salt.” If you’ve heard these words from your doctor, you may be wondering where to start. After all, salt is an ever-present part of the modern diet, especially in pre-packaged food. Never...
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Your Heart Attack ‘To Do’ List (Infographic)
More than one million people in the U.S. suffer a heart attack each year. For the best chance of survival, you need to respond to symptoms within an hour. Be prepared. Don’t delay. Know the symptoms....
View ArticleHeart Failure Work-Up: What to Expect (Video)
If you or a loved one have been diagnosed with heart failure, your cardiologist will do a work-up to determine the cause and severity. This information will help shape your treatment plan. Robert...
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From Failing Heart to Transplant: The Hartz of Shelly Artz
Sixty-nine year old Shelly Artz, MD, once said of transplant recipients, “Every one has a story.” But few have stories as good as Dr. Artz’ own “Tale of Three Hearts”. Scoot back to 2002. After several...
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CRT Study May Not Be Whole Story
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) continues to generate controversy. CRT implants pacemaker-like devices that align the rhythm of the right and left ventricles of a failing heart. According to...
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Hot Days and Heart Failure
“Mad dogs and Englishmen” may go out in the midday sun, but people with heart failure need to cool it. Cleveland Clinic cardiologist Maria Mountis, MD, told veiwers of WTOL news in Toledo, Ohio, that...
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What Are We Looking At?
Here are four views of a patient’s heart. They were taken with CT imaging and conventional x-ray. The patient has severe heart failure and is awaiting transplant. If you look closely, however, you’ll...
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Imaging the Heart: LVAD
From ” What Are We Looking At?“ These computed tomography (CT) images provided by Cardiovascular Imaging at Cleveland Clinic, show four views of a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implanted in a...
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Medical Innovation Summit: Heart Failure: New Technology; New Promise
Steve Szilagyi, our TBE writer is reporting from the Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit Chief Science Correspondent for NBC News Robert Bazell moderated the panel “Treating the Heart Failure...
View ArticleStrain is Gain for Cancer Patients’ Hearts
Teamwork works wonders. Take cancer care. Cleveland Clinic cancer specialists and heart specialists are working as a team to prevent or minimize damage to the heart caused by cancer treatments like...
View ArticleEmergency heart transplant saves teen
Over the holidays, an Ohio teen experienced heart failure that led to an emergency heart transplant at Cleveland Clinic on New Year’s Eve. Twenty-four years earlier, the boy’s father had the same...
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