A septal infarct is an area of dead tissue in the septum of the heart, which divides the two sides of the heart. It often follows a heart attack.

MRI evidence shows modest urban haze stiffens heart tissue, marking air pollution as a stealth cardiac saboteur beyond ...

A sack-like tissue called the pericardium surrounds the heart. Inflammation of the pericardium causes symptoms similar to a heart attack. This condition is called pericarditis, and the cause is ...

The simulator accurately replicates how blood flows through the heart—something that existing benchtop simulators using dead heart tissue could not do. Using live heart tissue from a pig instead ...

A team of scientists from Harvard Medical School and Duke University has created a new kind of tissue that can change heart activity using only light—no wires, no surgery, no harm. This ...

The woman, 60-year-old Denise Ann Prudhomme, was found dead at her third-floor desk in Tempe on Aug. 20, ... myocardial fibrosis occurs when there is a buildup of scar tissue in the heart muscle.

What Is Cardiac Ablation? This procedure uses energy to make small scars in your heart tissue. These scars stop unusual electrical signals that move through your heart and cause an uneven ...

The human heart has been found to show signs of aging after a mere month in space. Heart tissue samples aboard the International Space Station (ISS) were discovered to beat only around half as ...