What is Tavi? TAVI stands for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation. It’s a procedure that helps to improve a damaged aortic valve. During a TAVI procedure, an artificial valve made of natural animal heart tissue (usually from a cow or a…
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For someone with heart disease, diet is a big deal. Along with other healthy habits, it can slow or even partially reverse the narrowing of the heart’s arteries and help prevent further complications. You can help a loved one who has heart disease by adopting…
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Hot summers can induce heart attacks and strokes in individuals who are at risk of heart disease and it’s important to keep our heart safe when the temperatures rise. The heart has to work a lot harder to cool itself…
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While heart disease kills more men and women than any other disease in developed countries, it turns out there’s a lot which one can do to keep the heart healthy. We have learned a tremendous amount in recent years about…
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Trans catheter Aortic valve replacement is a minimal invasive procedure used to replace the aortic valve in patients with aortic stenosis. The aortic valve is a “one-way check-valve” that allows blood to go from the left side of the heart…
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Before Pacemakers were introduced, treatment of patients suffering from Brady-arrythmias, slow heart rhythms which may occur as a result of disease in the heart’s conduction system (such as the SA node, AV node or His-Purkinje network) was almost impossible. There…
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There are numerous heart diseases, and each one has its own symptoms and treatment. For some, lifestyle changes and medicine can bring a significant change in improving one’s health, while for others; one may need surgery to make your ticker…
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