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Everyone can benefit from learning about heart health. If you or a loved one is living with a heart condition, or if you want to learn how to prevent heart problems in the future, our topics can give you the information you need. From heart defects in babies to heart failure in older people, we cover a wide range of heart problems.

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Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening
Acute Coronary Syndrome
Alan's Story: Coping With Change After a Heart Attack
Alcohol Abuse: Other Health Problems That May Occur
Alcohol and Heart Disease
Alcoholic Cardiomyopathy
American Heart Association Healthy Diet Guidelines
Anesthesia
Angioplasty for Coronary Artery Disease
Angioplasty for Heart Attack and Unstable Angina
Antidepressants for Sleep Problems
Aortic Dissection
Aortic Valve Regurgitation
Aortic Valve Stenosis
Arrhythmias and Sexual Activity
Arrhythmias: Foods That Affect Heart Rate
Aspirin
Atherectomy for Coronary Artery Disease
Atrial Fibrillation
Automated Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring
Awareness During General Anesthesia
Beta-Blockers for Systolic Heart Failure
Birth Control Pills, Hormone Therapy, and Coronary Artery Disease
Blood Pressure Screening
Blood Thinners for Heart Failure
Bradycardia (Slow Heart Rate)
Cardiac Cachexia
Cardiac Device Monitoring
Cardiac Rehabilitation
Cardiac Rehabilitation Home Program: Hospital to Home
Cardiac Rehabilitation Phase I: In the Hospital
Cardiac Rehabilitation Phase II: Outpatient Program
Cardiac Rehabilitation Phase III: Long-Term Lifestyle Change
Cardiac Rehabilitation Team
Cardiac Rehabilitation: Medicine and Exercise
Cardiac Rehabilitation: Monitoring Your Body's Response to Exercise
Cardiac Rehabilitation: Monitoring Your Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE)
Cardiac Rehabilitation: Weight and Resistance Training
Cardiomyopathy
Care at the End of Life
Catheter Ablation for a Fast Heart Rate
Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation
Central Venous Catheters
Change in Heartbeat
Chest Problems
Cholesterol in Children and Teens
Classification of Heart Failure
Congenital Heart Defects
Congenital Heart Defects That Cause Aortic Valve Stenosis
Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: How It Is Done
Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: How to Prepare
Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: Recovering in the Hospital
Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: Self-Care for Recovery
Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: The Recovery Process
Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: What to Expect After You Go Home
Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: Day One of Recovery
Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: Minimally Invasive Methods
Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: When You Arrive at the Hospital
Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: Your Medical Team
Coronary Artery Disease
Coronary Artery Disease Risk Screening
Coronary Artery Disease: Eating Fish to Lower Your Risk
Coronary Artery Disease: Helping a Loved One
Coronary Artery Disease: Roles of Different Doctors
DASH Diet Sample Menu
Depression and Coronary Artery Disease
Determining the Need for Aortic Valve Replacement Surgery
Diabetic Neuropathy: Treatment for Blood Pressure Problems
Diastolic Heart Failure
Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Diuretics and Potassium Supplements
Drug-Eluting Stents
Elbow Pain: Other Causes of Pain
Electrical Cardioversion (Defibrillation) for a Fast Heart Rate
Electrical Cardioversion for Atrial Fibrillation
Endocarditis
Enhanced External Counterpulsation (EECP) for Heart Problems
Exercise Tips if You Have a Pacemaker or ICD
Familial Lipid Disorders
Family History of Heart Disease
Fast Heart Rate
General Anesthesia
Genetic Test for Clopidogrel
Health Problems Associated With Adult Obesity
Health Tracking Forms and Checklists
Heart Attack and Unstable Angina
Heart Block
Heart Disease: Prevention Myths
Heart Failure
Heart Failure and Sexual Activity
Heart Failure and Sleep Problems
Heart Failure Complications
Heart Failure Stages
Heart Failure Symptoms
Heart Failure Types
Heart Failure: Avoiding Colds and Flu
Heart Failure: Compensation by the Heart and Body
Heart Failure: Disease Management Programs
Heart Failure: Less Common Symptoms
Heart Failure: Tips for Caregivers
Heart Failure: Tips for Easier Breathing
Heart Murmur
Heart Rhythm Problems: Diary of Symptoms
Heart Rhythm Problems: Symptoms
Heart Tests: When Do You Need Them?
Heart Transplant
Heart Valve Disease
Heart valve repair or replacement for mitral valve regurgitation or prolapse
Heart Valve Replacement: Minimally Invasive Methods
Heart Valve Surgery: Recovery
Heart-Healthy Lifestyle
Helping a Loved One After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
High Blood Pressure
High Blood Pressure in African Americans
High Blood Pressure, Transient Ischemic Attack, and Stroke
High Blood Pressure: Nutrition Tips
High Cholesterol
High Cholesterol Treatment Guidelines Based on Heart Attack Risk
High Cholesterol: Eating Fish and Fish Oil
High Cholesterol: How a Dietitian Can Help
High Triglycerides
High-Output Heart Failure
How Beta-Blockers Treat Diastolic Heart Failure
How Nitrates Treat Systolic Heart Failure
How to Find Hidden Salt (Sodium)
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Risk of Sudden Death
Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD)
Inhaled Anesthetics
Interactive Tool: Are You at Risk for a Heart Attack?
Interactive Tool: How Does Smoking Increase Your Risk of Heart Attack?
Interactive Tool: What Is Your Risk for a Stroke if You Have Atrial Fibrillation?
Interactive Tool: What Is Your Target Heart Rate?
Interactive Tools
Intravenous (IV) Anesthetics
Ischemia
Isolated Systolic High Blood Pressure
Joan's Story: Coping With Depression and Anxiety From Heart Failure
Joyce's Story: Feeling Better With a Pacemaker
Kawasaki Disease
Kawasaki Disease: Criteria to Diagnose
Lipid Panel
Living With More Than One Health Problem
Local Anesthetics
Low Blood Pressure (Hypotension)
Low-Dose Aspirin Therapy
Malignant High Blood Pressure
Maze Procedure for Atrial Fibrillation
Medicines for Heart Failure
Medicines That Make Heart Failure Worse
Medicines to Prevent Abnormal Heart Rhythm in Heart Failure
Mediterranean Diet
Mitral Valve Prolapse
Mitral Valve Prolapse: Children Who Play Sports
Mitral Valve Regurgitation
Mitral Valve Regurgitation and Exercise
Mitral Valve Stenosis
Modify Recipes for a Heart-Healthy Diet
Monitoring and Medicines for Heart Failure
Monitoring Aortic Valve Regurgitation
Monitoring During Anesthesia
Myxoma Tumors of the Heart
Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs)
Organ Transplant
Pacemaker for Atrial Fibrillation
Pacemaker for Bradycardia
Paradoxical Embolism
Passing Out (Syncope) Caused by Arrhythmias
People Who Need Antibiotics to Prevent Endocarditis
Pericarditis
Peripheral Arterial Disease and Exercise
Planning to Be an Organ Donor
Prehypertension
Premature Ventricular Contractions (PVCs)
Procedural Sedation
Procedures That May Require Antibiotics to Prevent Endocarditis
Pulmonary Embolism
Quick Tips: Self-Care for Heart Failure
Quick Tips: Taking Charge of Your Angina
Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
Resuming Sexual Activity After a Heart Attack
Right-Sided Heart Failure
Risk Factors for Coronary Artery Disease
Risks and Benefits of Medicines for Heart Failure
Scarlet Fever
Schizophrenia: Other Health Problems That May Occur
Scleroderma
Should I Repair or Replace My Mitral Valve?
Sick Sinus Syndrome
Smoking and Coronary Artery Disease
Smoking: Heart Attack and Stroke Risks
Sodium and High Blood Pressure
SPECT Image of the Heart
Supraventricular Tachycardia
Systolic Heart Failure
Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (TLC)
Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (TLC) Diet for High Cholesterol
Thrombolytic Medicines for Pulmonary Embolism
Tips for Success With the Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (TLC) Diet
Triggers of Sudden Heart Failure
Types of Bradycardia
Types of Supraventricular Tachycardia
Using Nitroglycerin for Angina
Vagal Maneuvers for a Fast Heart Rate
Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) for Heart Failure
Ventricular Tachycardia
Ventriculogram
Weight and Coronary Artery Disease
What to Do if Your Cardiac Device Is Recalled
What You Need to Know Before Exercising With an Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD)
Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome
Women and Coronary Artery Disease
Writing an Advance Directive
Medications
Adenosine for Fast Heart Rates
Aldosterone Receptor Antagonists: Diuretics for Heart Failure
Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers (ARBs)
Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers (ARBs) for High Blood Pressure
Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme (ACE) Inhibitors for Coronary Artery Disease
Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme (ACE) Inhibitors for Heart Attack and Unstable Angina
Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme (ACE) Inhibitors for Heart Failure
Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme (ACE) Inhibitors for High Blood Pressure
Antiarrhythmic Medicines for Atrial Fibrillation
Antiarrhythmic Medicines for Fast Heart Rates
Antiarrhythmics for congenital heart defects
Antibiotics for Lyme Disease
Anticoagulants for aortic and mitral valve regurgitation
Anticoagulants for Coronary Artery Disease
Anticoagulants for Heart Attack and Unstable Angina
Anticoagulants for Pulmonary Embolism
Antiplatelet Medicine for Heart Attack and Unstable Angina
Aspirin for Coronary Artery Disease
Aspirin for Heart Attack and Unstable Angina
Aspirin for mitral valve regurgitation
Beta-Blockers for Atrial Fibrillation
Beta-Blockers for Coronary Artery Disease
Beta-Blockers for Fast Heart Rates
Beta-Blockers for Heart Attack and Unstable Angina
Beta-Blockers for Heart Failure
Beta-Blockers for High Blood Pressure
Beta-Blockers for Mitral Valve Prolapse
Bile Acid Sequestrants for High Cholesterol
Calcium Channel Blockers for Atrial Fibrillation
Calcium Channel Blockers for Coronary Artery Disease
Calcium Channel Blockers for Fast Heart Rates
Calcium Channel Blockers for Heart Failure
Calcium Channel Blockers for High Blood Pressure
Cardiac glycosides for congenital heart defects
Cholesterol Absorption Inhibitors for High Cholesterol
Dabigatran for Atrial Fibrillation
Digoxin for Atrial Fibrillation
Digoxin for Fast Heart Rates
Digoxin for Heart Failure
Digoxin for mitral valve regurgitation
Direct Renin Inhibitors for High Blood Pressure
Diuretics for congenital heart defects
Diuretics for Heart Failure
Diuretics for High Blood Pressure
Fibric Acid Derivatives for High Cholesterol
Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa Inhibitors for Heart Attack and Unstable Angina
Morphine for Heart Attack
Nicotinic Acid for High Cholesterol
Nitrates for Coronary Artery Disease
Nitrates for Heart Attack and Unstable Angina
Other Medicines for High Blood Pressure
Oxygen Therapy for Heart Failure
Statins and Statin Combinations for High Cholesterol
Thrombolytics for Heart Attack and Unstable Angina
Vasodilators for congenital heart defects
Vasodilators for Heart Failure
Vasodilators for mitral valve regurgitation
Warfarin for Atrial Fibrillation
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Last Updated: September 29, 2009
Medical Review:
Adam Husney, MD, MD - Family Medicine


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