Heart Disease

Cardiovascular Spare Parts
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The human cardiovascular system is highly efficient, yet enormously complex. A thousand times each day, the muscular heart pumps five quarts of blood through the arteries, to the smaller arterioles and finally the microscopic capillaries, and then through

Superior Vena Cava Syndrome
by National Cancer Institute
The superior vena cava is thin-walled, and the blood is under low pressure. If a tumor forms in the chest or nearby lymph nodes become swollen (as from lymphoma), the superior vena cava can be squeezed. Blood flow slows.

Malignant Pericardial Effusions
by National Cancer Institute
Pericardial effusion is an increased amount of fluid inside the pericardium, the thin layer of tissue that forms a sac surrounding the heart. The excess fluid causes pressure on the heart, which prevents it from pumping blood normally.

Cancer and Cardiopulmonary Syndromes
by National Cancer Institute
Cardiopulmonary syndromes are heart and lung symptoms, such as dyspnea (shortness of breath), cough, chest pain, irregular heartbeats, and excess fluid around the lungs (pleural effusion) and/or heart (pericardial effusion).

Spring
An Arrow Through the Heart
by Deborah Daw Heffernan
There is a weight on my chest. Right between my breasts, pressing on my breastbone — as though the atmosphere ripped open a shaft from the heavens to me and the sky poured down onto this one spot. Observant, detached, slowing down, breathing careful

Prologue
An Arrow Through the Heart
by Deborah Daw Heffernan
Statistics are aerial photographs. The photographer in the airplane circling high above us looks for the big picture - where land gives way to water, where mountains rise, where the desert begins.

Women's Hearts Are Different
The Women's Healthy Heart Program : Lifesaving Strategies for Preventing and Healing Heart Disease
by Nieca Goldberg, M.D.
One out of every two women will die of heart disease. It is the single greatest health risk for women today-more than stroke and all cancers combined. Women experience heart disease in a fundamentally different way than men do.

Pediatric Heart Surgery
Walk on Water: The Miracle of Saving Children's Lives
by Michael Ruhlman
Life and death at the Cleveland Clinic. Walk on Water offers a rare and dramatic glimpse into a world where the health of innocent children and the hopes of white-knuckled families rest in the hands of all-too-human doctors.

A Killer of Paupers and Presidents
A Change of Heart: How the People of Framingham, Massachusetts, Helped Unravel the Mysteries of Cardiovascular Disease
by Daniel Levy, M.D., Susan Brink
It was April 12, 1945, and the country was heartbroken. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the thirty-second president of the United States, died suddenly in what had come to be known as the Little White House, a cottage in the woods of Pine Mountain near Warm Spring

Three Wishes for a Second Chance
The Carbohydrate Addict's Healthy Heart Program : Break Your Carbo-Insulin Connection to Heart Disease
by Richard F. Heller, M.S., Ph.D., Rachael F. Heller, Ph.D., Frederic J. Vagnini, M.D.
I believe that things happen for a reason or, at least, that with the right attitude something good can come out of even the worst of experiences. I never really stopped believing this, although, for many years, when the challenges were hard and I was

A Newer and Kinder Medicine
The Carbohydrate Addict's Healthy Heart Program : Break Your Carbo-Insulin Connection to Heart Disease
by Richard F. Heller, M.S., Ph.D., Rachael F. Heller, Ph.D., Frederic J. Vagnini, M.D.
There was a time when we ate food simply because it tasted good and gave us pleasure. There was a time when we walked just for the enjoyment of it, and when we were done, we felt relaxed and happy. There was a time when we viewed our bodies as givers

Arginine
The Arginine Solution: The First Guide to America's New Cardio-Enhancing Supplement
by Robert Fried, Ph.D., Woodson C. Merrell, M.D., James Thornton
If you're now reading these words, chances are you take your own health, and that of your loved ones, very much to heart. The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates called health the greatest of human blessings, a sentiment that has been echoed by poets