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The Watchman Device with Dr. Greg Von Mering

March 25, 2021 283 6
Alain Bouchard, MD

A Watchman device, used to help reduce stroke risk in patients.

Implantable heart devices can serve as alternatives to anticoagulants for patients with high stroke risk. Dr. Alain Bouchard and Dr. Greg Von Mering discuss the Watchman device and other similar solutions in this episode of the MyHeart.net Podcast. Subscribe to the MyHeart.net Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Google Podcasts.

Filed Under: Featured Articles, Podcast, Risk & Prevention Tagged With: Stroke

Benefits of Coffee : Getting To The Heart Of The Matter

March 15, 2015 21287 4
Dr. Mustafa Ahmed

coffee and your heart

Decades ago in the 70’s and 80’s there was a flurry of articles published in major medical journals that implicated coffee drinking as a risk factor for heart attacks. It was reported that the risk was related to the amount of coffee consumed: the more coffee, the higher the risk. But as research techniques improved,…

Filed Under: Diet & Nutrition Tagged With: Cholesterol, Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), Diabetes, Hypertension (High Blood Pressure), Stroke

Afib with RVR – When The Heart Races Out Of Control

June 29, 2014 102490 25
Dr. Mustafa Ahmed

Afib with RVR

What Is Afib with RVR? Afib with RVR refers to atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular rate. Usually the heart is like clockwork, the top (collecting) chambers beat then the bottom (main pumping) chambers sense this and also beat, and so on, in a nice regular fashion just like a clock ticking second after second. Usually…

Filed Under: Cardiac Arrhythmias, Heart Disease Tagged With: atrial fibrillation, Blood pressure, Cardiovascular disease, Chest pain, Heart Attack (Myocardial Infarction), heart disease, Heart failure, Heart rate, heart rhythm, palpitations, shortness of breath, Stroke

Is Chocolate Good For Your Heart?

February 9, 2014 4804 0
Stephen Russell, MD

Is Chocolate Good For Your Heart?

By Stephen Russell MD It’s the season of love during Valentine’s day. A time for romance. For greeting cards. For heart-shaped decorations. And for chocolate. Since antiquity, couples have called on the memory of St. Valentine to profess their love for one another, and perhaps no other gift better represents those emotions than a box…

Filed Under: Risk & Prevention Tagged With: heart disease, Stroke

How Exercise Can Save Your Life

December 21, 2013 7207 0
Stephen Russell, MD

men running

I cut my teeth on country music in college. Having come from Alabama, one would think that country music was in my blood, but it took a move to Nashville to have the country melody course through my soul. In a line from a country music classic at that time, Clint Black sang: “Walking away,…

Filed Under: Exercise, General Health, Risk & Prevention Tagged With: Cardiovascular disease, Heart Attack (Myocardial Infarction), Stroke

Atrial Fibrillation – Part 2 – Blood thinners

October 4, 2013 7264 2
Dr. Julian Booker

By Julian Booker MD Although we identify only four chambers with a normal human heart, the left atrium has a small finger-like pouch attachment most commonly called the appendage. Blood flow within the appendage can be slower than the rest of the left atrium. Although many cardiologists would argue, the left atrial appendage does have…

Filed Under: Cardiac Arrhythmias, Heart Disease Tagged With: atrial fibrillation, Stroke

The 35-45 Year-Old Health Check – (Part 1) – Why is it so important?

September 10, 2013 5647 0
Dr. Murtaza Ahmed

  By Murtaza Ahmed MD As I mentioned in my previous post, the obesity epidemic, one of the most common presentations of the 35-45 year old  patient is for a ‘general health check’.  There is something about this age that makes people conscious that there may be aspects of their health that require attention.  The…

Filed Under: Risk & Prevention Tagged With: Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), Diabetes, Hypertension (High Blood Pressure), Stroke

Stroke – Part 1 – Types of Stroke

September 9, 2013 6580 0
Dr. Julian Booker

By Julian Booker MD Stroke falls under the category of cerebrovascular disease meaning disease involving the blood vessels of the central nervous system (brain, spinal cord and visual system). We all know someone that has had a stroke but many of us do not know what a stroke is. I have heard people refer to…

Filed Under: Vascular Disease Tagged With: atrial fibrillation, Blood pressure, Chronic Illness, Hypertension (High Blood Pressure), Stroke

Hypertension

June 27, 2013 19892 2
Dr. Julian Booker

Hypertension aka High Blood Pressure

Hypertension, also called high blood pressure, is the condition where one or both of your blood pressure values are elevated. When looking at your blood pressure recording you will notice two numbers. The top and bottom numbers of your blood pressure measurement are called the systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure respectively. For years,…

Filed Under: Hypertension (High Blood Pressure) Tagged With: Blood pressure, Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), Diabetes, Heart Attack (Myocardial Infarction), Heart failure, Hypertension (High Blood Pressure), Stroke

PFO anyone?

June 2, 2013 13706 2
Dr. Julian Booker

By Julian Booker MD Help!! It’s an emergency!! I have a hole in my heart!! My last doctor performed an echocardiogram and told me I have a patent foramen ovale (PFO). What does this mean? More importantly, what does this mean for me? The foramen ovale is a shunt that is a necessary component of…

Filed Under: Heart Valves Tagged With: Atrial septal defect, congenital heart disease, Dyspnea, Echocardiography, EKG, Heart failure, PFO, shortness of breath, Stroke

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