Systolic hypertension is a major health economy problem within our aging society. Increased arterial stiffness is the vascular phenotype of systolic hypertension, especially of the large arteries ...

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Dec. 4, 2024 — Earlier research showed that primary care clinicians using AI-ECG tools identified more unknown cases of a weak heart pump, also called low ejection fraction, than without AI.

Aortic stenosis is a disease often diagnosed in its asymptomatic phase due to its distinct murmur and the widespread ... Although an ejection click is common with a bicuspid aortic valve, it ...

In the Philadelphia 76ers' wild win over the San Antonio Spurs from a month ago, Andre Drummond and Joel Embiid both had run-ins with referees that turned a conventional game on its head. The ...

Upon initial questioning, there were no cardiovascular risk factors or significant family history. Clinical examination revealed an ejection systolic murmur over the left sternal edge with fixed ...

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You may hear about a concept called the cardiac cycle. Simply, the “cardiac cycle” is a way doctors have of dividing the work of the heart into two phases — the diastolic phase and the systolic phase.