Heart
Heart Murmur Leads to Urgent Mitral Valve Repair in Snowboarder
Ted Bendixson getting air while snowboarding. He’s back to his active lifestyle after an urgent mitral valve repair. Ted Bendixson has spent years as an active athlete. “I’d go mountain biking, go on hikes, I’d go to the climbing gym,” he recounts. But he has a particular love for snowboarding. “I grew up in Colorado, […]
7 Quick Questions With Heart Valve Specialist John Saxon
As a structural and interventional cardiologist, John T Saxon, MD, helps patients who need heart procedures to fix conditions like leaky heart valves and treat certain adult congenital heart diseases. He’s also co-director of the UVA Health’s Advanced Cardiac Valve Center. If you have heart valve disease, the idea of a major open-heart surgery can be […]
Are You at Risk of a SCAD Heart Attack?
No one thinks of the heart as a sex organ. Nor should they; it isn’t one. But it’s also true that biological sex impacts the kinds of heart issues and symptoms people experience. That is, women often have symptoms that don’t typically come with heart disease. And when it comes to spontaneous coronary artery dissection […]
Tiny Blood Vessels, Big Heart Issue: Microvascular Disease
If you’ve always thought that women’s hearts are different from men’s when it comes to heart disease, you’re right. Women don’t experience heart problems the same way men do. Several serious heart conditions, in fact, affect women more than they do men, such as coronary microvascular disease (CMD). That’s why understanding the differences and seeking […]
Learn the Anorexia Heart Failure Signs
Anorexia can break your heart in many ways. If you’re familiar with this eating disorder, you get it: It’s complicated. Anorexia can kick in when you want to be thin, but weight loss goes too far. Without nourishing food, your body, mind, and heart start to feel the pain. Then anorexia heart failure signs show […]
An Eye Surgery That Will Touch Your Heart
When Donna brought her sister, Kelly, to live with her, she was in a bad state. A victim of neglect and abuse by her caretakers, Kelly was malnourished, blind, and suffering from both untreated diabetes and a mental health illness. With Donna’s care and attention, plus Kelly’s innate resilience, Kelly got healthy and stable. Medication, […]