More articles about: Cardiovascular: Diseases & Conditions

For chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, also known as CTEPH, balloon pulmonary angioplasty is a novel, nonsurgical treatment which has seen a significant reduction in complications in recent years.

Cardiologist-approved heart tips for a healthier life from Michigan Medicine.

We have expanded the Michigan Medicine News Break to include Twitter Space conversations with Michigan Medicine experts. Today's episode is a conversation about COVID and overall lung health shared by three experts from the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. COVID-19 has affected all of us in some way, and unfortunately doesn't seem to be going anywhere anytime soon. Dr. MeiLan Han, Chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at University of Michigan Health, Dr. Hallie Prescott and Dr. Thomas Valley, also of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, dive into what the pandemic has taught us about lung health in general, lung health implications of long COVID and how we can apply lessons learned to better support overall lung health in the future.

Amy Bacon was inspired to go to college after her heart transplant. She now has three academic degrees and is working on a fourth while also educating teenagers about the importance of organ transplants.

For an abdominal aortic aneurysm, female patients have a higher risk for kidney damage after endovascular repair, a Michigan Medicine study finds.

Vitamin D has been touted as a supplement that can prevent or treat all kinds of medical conditions. But further research has revealed that Vitamin D isn’t quite the cure-all it was thought to be

For chest pain, a cardiologist from University of Michigan Health discusses other potential causes of the symptom.

Heart failure patients get back to a longer, more fulfilling life, thanks to VAD technology

Metabolic mechanism protects hearts from damaging metabolites that build up in cold storage, study finds

For Lena Long, the Little Victors League has been ‘invaluable’ as her family works through managing her health

Using stroke as a measure of quality after TAVR could put stroke centers at a disadvantage, the study suggests

Scientists link dozens of new genome sites to coronary artery disease risk and pioneer a powerful method for illuminating the biological roots of common disease.

The study found that machine learning techniques improved diet prediction by 10-20%.

The gap in this key outcome for traditional and private-insurer Medicare participants has narrowed in recent years, though differences remain in care during and after hospitalization.

Study finds shared genetics between two inherited diseases of the arteries.