Heart Care
Learn about the Innovative approaches that Duke cardiologists and cardiac surgeons use to care for people with heart disease.
Winning Senior Olympic Gold After Heart Surgery and Cardiac Rehab
Dick Mazur of Raleigh was a fit 76-year-old planning to compete in the Senior Olympics for his third year in a row when his plans got waylaid. Diagnosed with a ...
When Heart Disease Runs in the Family
Anne Goodes knew her heart beat faster than normal, but it wasn’t until her local cardiologist detected a heart murmur that she discovered she was at risk for ...
Women's Intuition Detects Heart Trouble
In the early months of spring 2013, Suzanne Lambert felt overwhelming stress as she cared for her aging parents and helped to plan her daughter’s wedding. When ...
Research Focuses on Stem Cell Therapy for Heart Attack, Heart Failure
Can stem cells improve your heart’s function following heart damage? That’s the question behind several clinical trials at Duke. As leaders in cardiac stem cel ...
Divorce Increases Women's Heart Attack Risk
Divorce is bad for your heart -- especially if you’re a woman. According to new Duke research, women who have been divorced at least once are more likely to ex ...
Leadless Pacemakers, the Size of a Vitamin, Showing Promise
Investigational pacemakers -- the size of a small pen cap or vitamin pill -- are eliminating the need for painful surgical incisions and wires to connect the d ...
New Guidelines Recommend Blood Thinners for Women, People Over 65, with AFib
If you are a woman, or over 65, and have been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, new guidelines suggest blood-thinning drugs may reduce your risk for stroke. ...
5 Reasons Why Women Should Be Proactive About Their Heart Health
The differences between men and women extend to matters of the heart, and we don’t mean how they “feel” about each other. Heart disease risks, symptoms and tre ...
Preventing Heart Disease When Family History Stacks the Deck
Kat Duke of Raleigh lost her entire family to heart disease: her mother, her father, her brother, and her half-sister. She was determined not to succumb to the ...
Heart Disease Imaging
When you have a heart condition, imaging tests are the best way to ensure you get the right treatment at the right time, and the best possible outcome. Only la ...
CPR Saves a Life
Duke cardiologist Monique Anderson, MD, has spent her early career researching the importance of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. After presenting about the impa ...
When a Child Faints
Passing out. Blacking out. Keeling over. Whatever you call it, fainting can be frightening—especially when it happens to your child. The medical term for it is ...