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Angioplasty and bypass surgery are two common treatments for blocked coronary arteries, but the right choice depends on the number, location and severity of blockages, along with the patient’s overall health. Understand the differences between these procedures, their benefits, risks and recovery to learn how doctors determine the most suitable treatment.

A heart attack and a panic attack can produce remarkably similar symptoms. Chest pain, breathlessness, sweating, and a racing heart can occur with either. A few patterns may help distinguish them. Heart attack symptoms can develop gradually and may worsen with...

Most people picture a heart attack as someone clutching their chest. For women, it often doesn't look like that at all. Chest discomfort or pressure still shows up, but so does breathlessness, unusual tiredness, nausea, cold sweats, pain in the back or jaw. Sometimes...

LDL and HDL cholesterol play different roles in heart health. Learn the difference between bad and good cholesterol, their normal levels, how they affect your risk of heart disease, and ways to maintain healthy cholesterol levels through diet and lifestyle changes.

Blocked heart artery symptoms include chest pain or pressure, shortness of breath, unusual fatigue, pain that spreads to the arm, shoulder, neck, or jaw, dizziness or lightheadedness, sweating, nausea, and an irregular or rapid heartbeat. Some people experience heart...

Breathless on the stairs? Ankles a bit swollen by evening? Most people blame a long day or being out of shape. Fair enough, sometimes that's all it is. But heart failure doesn't announce itself loudly. Doctors track it across four stages, A to D, based on what's...

Not every pacemaker does the same job. A single-chamber pacemaker gets by on one wire, pacing just one heart chamber. A dual-chamber pacemaker uses two, running the upper and lower chambers together so they beat in the right order. Sounds like a small difference. It...

Chest pain or pressure that doesn't let up with rest, breathlessness during things that used to feel easy, dizziness or fainting spells, fatigue that doesn't have an obvious cause, or leg pain that shows up while walking are the kinds of warning signs that usually...

Many people with early heart valve problems have no symptoms at all. That's actually what makes valve disease tricky to catch early. When subtle signs do start showing up, they tend to develop slowly rather than announce themselves clearly, unusual fatigue, mild...

Most patients are back to their daily activities within about a week of angioplasty, though full recovery, meaning exercise, driving, and physically demanding work, usually takes closer to 2 to 4 weeks, and the exact number depends on whether the procedure went...