Heart disease

Heart disease

Heart diseases (heart attack, heart failure,) risk factors, treatment, prevention, and heart health.

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thrombus

Health care; Heart disease

A blood clot that forms on the wall of a blood vessel.

heart transplant

Health care; Heart disease

A heart transplant is a surgical procedure to replace a patient's damaged or failing heart with a healthy heart from a recently deceased organ donor. It is a treatment that's usually reserved for ...

karoshi

Health care; Heart disease

A Japanese term meaning "death by overwork". It refers to the peculiarly Japanese phenomenon where businessmen will work long hours over many years to the detriment of their health, eventually ...

Myocardial infarction (MI; Latin: infarctus myocardii) or acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is the medical term for an event commonly known as a heart attack. An MI occurs when blood stops flowing ...