A new study demonstrates that a change in the ECG wave called the QRS prolongation is associated with a higher rate of heart-failure mortality. According to the team that carried out the study the ...

New research pinpoints how to spot which heart failure patients are most likely to benefit from getting a pacemaker. Previous research has shown that receiving a pacemaker can improve symptoms and ...

A common test that records the heart's electrical activity could predict potentially serious cardiovascular illness, according to a new study. A common test that records the heart's electrical ...

A woman is brought to the emergency department with chest pain. Her clinicians do not have to search far for the source. Mrs. R, 63 years old and visibly obese, was transported by paramedics to the ...

A new meta-analysis study, led by physician researchers at University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and to be published in the Archives of ...

Indianapolis, IN - A new study confirms that adult patients with myotonic dystrophy type 1, the most common of the muscular dystrophies presenting in adults, are at high risk for arrhythmias and death ...

A 68-year-old male with morbid obesity and no past medical history comes to the office complaining of fatigue and shortness of breath. He does not feel dizzy and has never passed out. He takes no ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden demonstrates that a change in the ECG wave called the QRS prolongation is associated with a higher rate of heart-failure mortality. According to the ...