The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is ...

In fact, the cardiac conduction system is responsible for our heart beating around 2.5 billion times during the average human lifespan. The conduction system, also called the cardiac electrical ...

The first pig-to-human heart transplant was performed in January. Researchers then took electrocardiograms for each of the 61 days the patient survived. Pig hearts in pig bodies show a short PR ...

In a new study, published today (12 July) in Nature, researchers have produced the most detailed and comprehensive human Heart Cell Atlas to date, including the specialised tissue of the cardiac ...

Normally, electrical signals in a pig heart travel very quickly, faster than in a human heart, explained Dr. Timm Dickfeld, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.

Your heart’s job is to keep your pulse steady to pump blood throughout your body. Sometimes your heart rate is slower when ...

The ECG parameters of the “accepted pig heart transplant in the ‘pig body’” show short PR (50 to 10 milliseconds, ms) and QT (260 to 380 ms) intervals and short QRS (70 to 90 ms).

Heart block is a disease of the heart's electrical system. ... Share on Pinterest Diagram of a human heart. A healthy, resting human heart beats at about 60 to 100 times a minute.

For years, heart research has been limited by a lack of cell models and has relied on animal models to substitute for human hearts, said Elizabeth McNally, MD, Ph.D., the Elizabeth J. Ward ...

American Heart Association researchers found heart rhythms in the first pig-to-human heart transplant changed from what is expected from a pig heart. Becker's Healthcare: Hospital; ASC; ...