Cancer treatments are often critical in improving a patient’s chance of survival from a deadly disease. But while chemotherapy and radiation therapy have proven invaluable in treating cancers, studies have shown that these very same lifesaving techniques can have an effect on the health of your heart. What can you do? Being aware that cardiovascular
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Cardiac patients once considered too risky for surgery are now being given another chance at life. If you could peer inside your heart, you would see that the valves are busy maintaining a steady rhythm—open, close, open, close—to pump blood throughout your body. But what happens when something interferes with that rhythm? In patients with
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Interventional cardiologists are traveling a new pathway in the fight against coronary artery disease. Cardiac catheterization is the gold standard for defining the heart’s arteries and diagnosing blockages; a long, thin tube is threaded through an artery or vein and into the heart, enabling a physician to visualize a blockage and open it with a balloon
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Calcium scoring may be the best indicator yet to assess your risk of heart attack. Cholesterol, blood pressure, weight—you can probably tick off all of these statistics. But if you don’t know your calcium score, you may be skipping a beat with your heart health. “I was a mystery,” says Robert Swinarton of Kenilworth. The active
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