Search Results for: heart condition
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Pediatric Heart Conditions: What You Should Know
Different heart diseases and conditions can affect babies and children. Congenital heart defects (CHDs) are the most common form of birth defect.Read More
Categorized as: Living and Wellness, Pediatrics
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Treating Emergency Heart Conditions: A Team Effort
At UPMC Passavant, a team of world-class interventional cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, nurses, and technologists are available around the clock to treat emergency heart conditions, such as heart attacks.Read More
Categorized as: Health Topics A-Z, Heart and Vascular Health
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Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: Understanding a Rare, Pregnancy-Related Heart Condition
Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a life-threatening form of heart failure that affects pregnant women or women who have just given birth.Read More
Categorized as: Health Topics A-Z, Heart and Vascular Health
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Heart Condition Symptoms: Now What?
Learn about the symptoms of heart-related conditions, the different cardiac imaging tests, and how they are used for detecting potential heart problems.Read More
Categorized as: Heart and Vascular Health
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3 Heart and Vascular Conditions You Don’t Want for Christmas This Year
Would you believe there are actual medical conditions called Christmas Disease, Nutcracker Syndrome, and Grinch Syndrome? Discover the symptoms of each!Read More
Categorized as: Heart and Vascular Health, Living and Wellness
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Infographic: 6 Deadly Heart Disorders and Conditions
Learn how to spot the symptoms of six deadly heart diseases, including atrial fibrillation, mitral valve disease, and cardiomyopathy.Learn More
Categorized as: Heart and Vascular Health
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Coping With Stress the Heart-Healthy Way
Stress can have an impact on your heart. But the way you deal with stress can have a positive effect. Learn more from UPMC.Read More
Categorized as: Health Topics A-Z, Heart and Vascular Health
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Treating Jackie’s Heart Disease: A Magee-Womens Heart Program Story
Retired UPMC nurse Jackie Stogoski visited the Magee-Womens Heart Program at UPMC Passavant due to chest pain. Now, she walks 13,000 steps a day.Read More
Categorized as: Health Topics A-Z, Heart and Vascular Health
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Comprehensive Aneurysm Care at the UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute
Aortoiliac aneurysms involve the abdominal aorta and iliac arteries — the large arteries responsible for transporting oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the lower part of the body and the legs.Read More
Categorized as: Health Topics A-Z, Heart and Vascular Health