Most people train calves for appearance or balance, but experts say these lower-leg muscles may also play a major role in heart health and blood flow.

Your calf muscles do more than just help you walk—they act as a secondary pump to keep your blood flowing. Learn how ...

Your circulatory system works all day, every day, to pump oxygen throughout your body. There are cardiovascular conditions that can impact this system. Your circulatory system, also known as your ...

BACKGROUND: Massive left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is a risk factor for sudden cardiac death in children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), but little is understood about its natural history.

Cardiogenic shock is characterized by depression of cardiac function that leads to low blood pressure, coronary ischemia, and further decreased cardiac contractility resulting in tissue hypoxemia. The ...

Researchers say they have been able to tap a new pool of organ donors to preserve and transplant their hearts: people whose hearts have stopped beating, resulting in so-called circulatory death.

Transplants from circulatory-death donor hearts assessed with a perfusion machine did just as well as those procured after brain death and cold storage, a randomized trial showed. Recipients of a ...

Shortage of organs limits the number of heart transplantations performed; waiting-list mortality is 10–12% per year in Europe and the USA Adoption of donation after circulatory determination of death ...