The Jarvik-7 artificial heart, made of aluminum and plastic, was implanted in 1982 in a retired Des Moines, Wash., dentist, Barney Clark. He lived for 112 days.

Siddarth Nandyala wants to put his tool in the hands of medical professionals so that they can catch cardiovascular ...

To train the models, Apple broke the recordings into short 5-second clips, moving forward one second at a time. That added up to around 23,000 heart sound snippets, to which Apple then trained a ...

He worked with a team at the University of Utah to create a mechanical heart. It was later used in patients awaiting an organ ...

Mitral valve prolapse (also known as click-murmur syndrome, Barlow's syndrome, balloon mitral valve, or floppy valve syndrome) With this defect, the mitral valve leaflets bulge and don't close ...

We're all aware of the psychological pain of a broken heart – countless books, songs, and movies have been written and made on the topic – but there's also scientific evidence that a broken heart can ...

A study has confirmed people really can die of a broken heart - and certain people are most at risk. Research has proved grief can be quite literally heartbreaking, as when a loved one dies, we're ...

On clinical examination, signs of ARHF include increased jugular venous pressure with a prominent v wave, prominent midprecordial cardiac impulse, right-sided third heart sound, and holosystolic ...

However, there are occasions where the presence of VEBs signifies a susceptibility towards more sinister arrhythmias, especially when heart disease is present. In some patients, VEBs are triggered by ...

“Our tissues started to act more like real heart tissue.” The shape changes did more than just make the tissues look like real hearts. They also helped the cells line up properly, which is ...

The final edition of El Clasico this season will take place on Sunday when Barcelona host Real Madrid in a match that will be crucial in determining who wins La Liga's title race. Barcelona enter ...

Notably, heart failure was most prevalent in adult patients (54.6%, n=53), while cardiac murmur was the primary presenting symptom in both infant and child/adolescent groups (19.5%, n=33 and 17.4%, ...