Foot ulcers showing signs of spreading infection (increasing warmth, redness, swelling) in people with circulation problems require urgent care to prevent systemic complications.

T he heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs and ...

A Special Wish Foundation Ohio Valley Chapter announced a completed wish has been granted for a special little boy in Marshall County today. Logan Johnson is ...

During the systemic circulation oxygenated blood goes out of the heart chamber and relatively deoxygenated blood returns to the heart.

The aorta, a large blood vessel responsible for transporting oxygenated blood from the heart to the rest of the body, plays a crucial role in our circulatory system. While it has long been known ...

BACKGROUND: Fontan circulatory failure (FCF) is a chronic state in palliated single ventricle heart disease with high morbidity and mortality rates, including heart failure, multisystem end-organ ...

Both arteries and veins are types of blood vessels in the cardiovascular system. An artery carries blood away from the heart, and a vein carries blood back to the heart.

CorWave, a medical device company, announces the world’s first implantation in a patient of its Left Ventricular Assist ...

“So we made a device mimicking the heart beating and the blood circulation and an orbital shaking system which causes shear stress – or friction – of the blood cells as they move through the ...