ESME Atkinson was just one month old when she died due to a “hole in her heart” – which was only discovered during a ...

This is called a heart murmur. Doctors can hear a heart murmur ... being very tired being underweight and growing slowly irregular or extra heart beats, called arrhythmias. Adults with a VSD ...

New research shows that the gum disease bacterium P. gingivalis can slip into the bloodstream and infiltrate the heart. There, it quietly drives scar tissue buildup -- distorting the heart's ...

Noticing Odyssey’s post-exercise behaviors, his foster owners took him to their veterinarian, who identified a loud heart murmur and referred the case to the cardiology team at Illinois in ...

Your baby's heart murmur was probably picked up at her routine developmental when her doctor listened to her chest and heart with a stethoscope. The word murmur simply describes the noise made by ...

Patients suffering from long COVID may exhibit persistent inflammation in the heart and lungs for up to a year following SARS ...

My doctor ordered a series of heart scans that found slight mitral valve prolapse. What is that? Should I be worried? Dear Reader: Mitral valve prolapse is a condition that interferes with the one ...

A shingles infection can cause blood vessel damage, inflammation and clot formation, raising the risk of heart attack and stroke. Older adults, people with weakened immune systems and those who ...

From wagging tails to silent signals, pets are talking — are we listening? Our pets are more than companions. They are family ...