Most people haven’t heard the term “nuclear cardiology,” but they may know a friend or relative who has reaped the benefits from it. Nuclear cardiology has played a pivotal role in establishing the diagnosis of heart disease and in the assessment of disease extent and the prediction of outcomes when it comes to coronary artery […]
When a person has cardiomyopathy his or her heart muscle becomes enlarged, thick, or rigid. This makes is harder and harder to pump blood as the disease worsens. Plus, it becomes incapable of maintaining a normal electric rhythm. There are different types of cardiomyopathy, and they can lead to heart failure or arrhythmia. At Hunterdon […]
We’ve all heard the term “coronary artery disease,” but do we really understand what that means? If not, we need to. Every year about 610,000 people in the U.S. die of heart disease, about one out of every four deaths! Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women. At Hunterdon […]
Movies and songs are always hoping our hearts flutter. Our cardiologists and specialists at Hunterdon Cardiovascular hope those flutters are simply the stuff of entertainment, not reality. We’re more concerned with what is known as atrial flutter, which occurs in the right atrium. While atrial flutter itself is not life threatening, if left untreated it […]
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