Video Monitoring Your Condition at Home. Living with heart failure can be a challenge, but tracking things like weight and blood pressure can help you catch warning signs before it’s serious.

As your heart beats, it pumps blood from the left ventricle through the aortic valve and into the aorta, your body’s largest artery. The aortic valve is made up of three triangular flaps of ...

Heart failure occurs when the heart isn’t pumping as well as it should and can’t meet the body’s needs for blood and oxygen. The lifelong condition typically has no cure, ...

Systolic heart failure happens when the heart pumps at 40% or less of its ejection fraction. Ejection fraction measures how much blood the heart pumps with each contraction or beat.

Heart disease (cardiovascular) disease refers to conditions that can cause heart damage. Symptoms include chest pain, trouble breathing, and more.

Heart disease is a leading killer around the world and the top cause of death in the United States. It killed an estimated 17.9 million people in 2019, representing 32% of all deaths globally ...