Success of heart valve replacement
30 September 2016
Researchers review the success of a heart operation for the replacement of a person’s diseased aortic valve after 15 years.
30 September 2016
Researchers review the success of a heart operation for the replacement of a person’s diseased aortic valve after 15 years.
29 September 2016
People in tropical and subtropical countries could be genetically susceptible to a heart condition common only in these regions.
30 June 2016
Are new dissolvable stents that keep heart vessels open worth their cost?
31 May 2016
Researchers explore when it is best to give anaemic patients who have undergone cardiac surgery a blood transfusion.
30 May 2016
Patients with a serious form of heart attack could benefit from opening up heart vessels not involved in the attack.
30 April 2016
A technique developed to measure airflow over aircraft is showing promise as a research tool for heart diseases.
29 February 2016
Reviewing studies on techniques used to map the electrical wave-sources of atrial fibrillation may help resolve debate over the causes of the condition.
31 January 2016
Abdominal ultrasounds on certain patients admitted to the emergency room may reveal life-threatening widening of the aorta.
31 January 2016
Physicians must consider a relatively rare anomaly in one of the main two arteries that feed the heart while treating survivors of sudden cardiac death.
31 January 2016
Recent advances in stent technology show promise for patients with narrowing in the body’s main artery.
31 December 2015
Certain biomarkers could play a role in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with narrowed, calcified heart valves.
30 November 2015
Knowledge can help drive adherence to prophylaxis treatments in patients with rheumatic heart disease.
30 November 2015
Cardiac devices implantation have increased rapidly, but more research is needed to determine if it does not have serious side effects.
31 October 2015
The development of new experimental methods to understand the heart drives the search for new treatments.
30 September 2015
Repairing a defective heart valve may be a better option than replacing it.
30 July 2015
An increase in a certain type of lipoprotein could be one of the causes of refractory angina.
28 June 2015
Researchers find link between abnormal mechanics of the aorta and an often undiagnosed cardiovascular disease.
31 May 2015
South Asian and Filipino populations in Qatar may be more likely than their Arab counterpart to present with type 2 diabetes.
29 May 2015
Can particulate-based delivery systems cancel barriers to therapeutic effectiveness of inhaled drugs?
30 April 2015
Researchers offer a new diagnostic approach for a common heart disease as an alternative to exercise treadmill testing.
29 April 2015
Future medical technologues may overcome side effects of prostacyclin-based treatments and make them more reliable.
31 March 2015
Qataris may have a genetic predisposition towards diabetes, but the rise of the disease can be stemmed by lifestyle interventions
30 March 2015
Three-dimensional simulations of drug-releasing blood vessels can predict the release pattern of drugs into the bloodstream
28 February 2015
The discovery that a certain gene plays an important role in the rate of conduction in heart cells suggests new treatment options for some heart diseases
29 January 2015
The Qatari population has one of the highest rates of heart attacks and strokes among young people in the world, but increased awareness can help control that
24 December 2014
Researchers look to heart muscle cells to understand what makes the heart tick