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About Us

• Centers of Excellence
  • Aorta Center
  • Cardiovascular Surgery
  • Center for Atrial Fibrillation
  • Heart Failure & Transplantation
  • Kaufman Center for Heart Failure
  • Cardiac Electrophysiology & Pacing
  • Clinical Cardiology
  • Cardiovascular Imaging
  • Invasive Cardiology
  • Preventive Cardiology & Rehabilitation
  • Vascular Medicine
  • Diagnostic Radiology: Cardiovascular Imaging - MRI/CT
• Facts and Stats - facts and statistics about Heart Center procedures
• Heart Center Outcomes
  • Heart Center Outcomes
• Surgical Outcomes
  • Department Review
  • Coronary Disease
  • Valve Disease
  • Minimally Invasive
  • Great Vessels
  • Resynchronization Therapy
  • Atrial Fibrillation
  • Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
  • Heart Failure
  • General Thoracic Surgery
  • Lung Transplant
  • Affiliates
  • New Knowledge
• CCF Quality Measures - Cleveland Clinic Quality Indicator Guides
• Tour Facilities - Take a closer look at Heart Center departments and locations
• Location Maps
  • C - Walker Center - Preventive Cardiology
  • E - Emergency Room
  • F & G Buildings - Heart Center
  • P - Surgery Center
  • S Building - Vascular Medicine
• Around Town
• Giving to the Heart Center
• Gifts - connection to the Cleveland Clinic Gift Shop

Giving to the Heart Center

Glossary - Dictionary of cardiovascular words

Heart Guide and Vascular Guide

Heart & Blood Vessel Disease

• Abnormal Heart Rhythms
  • How the normal heart beats
  • What is an arrhythmia?
  • Common types of arrhythmias
  • How are arrhythmias treated?
  • How to find a doctor if you have an abnormal heart rhythm
  • Center for Atrial Fibrillation
  • Arrhythmia: atrial fibrillation
  • Arrhythmia: long qt syndrome
  • Arrhythmia: sudden cardiac death
  • Arrhythmia: Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome (WPW)
  • Syncope
  • Treatment: Cardioversion
  • Treatment: Catheter Ablation
  • Treatment: Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)
  • Treatment: Innovations in the treatment of atrial fibrillation
  • Treatment: Lead Extraction
  • Treatment: LifeVest
  • Treatment: Pacemaker
  • Treatment: pulmonary vein ablation
  • Treatment: Surgical Treatment for Atrial Fibrillation
    
• Aorta Disease & Marfan Syndrome
  • Aorta Center, Marfan Syndrome Clinic, and Connective Tissue Disorder Clinic
  • Aortic Aneurysm
  • Marfan Syndrome
  • Heart Surgery - Modified David's Reimplantation Procedure
  • Heart surgery for Marfan Syndrome
  • Heart Surgery for Marfan Syndrome - valve sparing method
  • Heart Surgery - Alcohol and Surgery
  • Heart Surgery - Guided Imagery
  • Heart Surgery - Herbals and Surgery
  • Heart Surgery Recovery
  • Heart Surgery Recovery - Tips To Help You Sleep
    
• Adult Congenital Heart Disease
  • Congenital Valve Defects in Adults
  • Atrial and Ventricular Septal Defects
  • Patent Foramen Ovale
  • Learn More: Bacterial Endocarditis & Heart Disease
  • Learn More: Cardiac Implant Closure Devices
    
• Carotid Artery Disease - Stroke Prevention
  • Carotid Artery Disease
  • Carotid Angiography and Stenting
  • Carotid Angiography and Stenting Photo Gallery
  • Carotid stenting superior to endarterectomy in high-risk patients
  • Carotid Stenting with Embolic Protection Device Equivalent to Endarterectomy in High-Risk Patients
  • Non-invasive Testing for Vascular Disease
  • Stroke: Information You Should Know

• Coronary Artery Disease
  • Your coronary arteries
• How does coronary artery disease develop?
• What are the symptoms of CAD?
• How is CAD diagnosed?
• How to find a doctor if you have CAD
• Living with CAD
• Understanding coronary artery disease
• CAD treatment: medical management
• Interventional Procedures: non-surgical procedures
• Interventional Procedures - Angioplasty, Stents, and Brachytherapy
• Interventional Procedures - Brachytherapy: Radiation for Re-stenosis
• Interventional Procedures - New Innovations
• Interventional Procedures - New Stents, Hopes — And Questions
• Heart Surgery - Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
• Heart Surgery - Arterial Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts
• Heart Surgery - Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery
• Heart Surgery - Off-Pump Bypass Surgery
• Heart Surgery - Robot-assisted surgery
• Heart Surgery - TMR (Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization)
• Heart Surgery Program - Cleveland Clinic Heart Center
• Heart Surgery - Guided Imagery
• Heart Surgery - Alcohol and Surgery
• Heart Surgery - Herbals and Surgery
• Heart Surgery Recovery
• Heart Surgery Recovery - Tips to Help You Sleep
• Learn More: Angiogenesis
• Learn More: Antioxidants, Vitamin E, Beta Carotene, and cardiovascular disease
• Learn More: Are you at risk for heart disease?
• Learn More: Aspirin and Heart Disease
• Learn More: Call 911 – Before It’s Too Late
• Learn More: Chronic Angina Therapy: Enhanced External Counterpulsation (EECP)
• What is a heart attack?
  • What happens during a heart attack
  • Types of heart attacks
  • What are the symptoms of a heart attack?
  • How is a heart attack diagnosed?
  • How is a heart attack treated?
  • Recovery after a heart attack
  • How to find a doctor if you have CAD
    
• Heart Failure
• What is heart failure?
• What are the symptoms of heart failure?
• When to Call the Doctor About Your Heart Failure Symptoms
• How is heart failure diagnosed
• Understanding Heart Failure
• Women & Heart Failure
• How to find a doctor if you have heart failure
• The George M. and Linda H. Kaufman Center for Heart Failure
• Treatment: How is heart failure treated?
• Treatment: Biventricular Pacemaker
• Treatment: Heart Failure Disease Management Program
• Treatment: Heart Failure Nutrition Guidelines
• Treatment: Heart Transplant
• Treatment: Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)
• Treatment: Implantable left ventricular assist device (LVAD)
• Treatment: Left ventricular reconstructive surgery (Dor Procedure)
• Treatment: Surgical procedures to treat heartfailure
• Learn more: Artificial Heart
• Learn more: Artificial hearts & Assist devices
• Learn more: Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia (ARVD)
• Learn More: Cell Transplant
• Health Information Pages
  • Exercise Guidelines
  • Monitoring Your Health When You Have Heart Failure
  • Nutritional Guidelines for Heart Failure
  • Potassium Guidelines for Patients with Heart Failure

• Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
  
• Pericarditis
  
• Peripheral Artery Disease
  • Circulation in the Legs
  • Intestinal Ischemic Syndromes
  • Lower Extremity (Leg and Foot) Ulcers
  • Non-invasive Testing for Vascular Disease
  • Raynaud's Phenomenon
  • Sclerotherapy
  • The Lower Extremity Wound Clinic
  • Varicose and Spider Veins
  • What is vascular disease?
  • What you need to know about Hypercoagulable States (blood clotting disorders)
    
• Valve Disease
  • Your heart valves
  • Symptoms of Valve Disease
  • Tests used to Diagnose valve disease
  • How to find a doctor if you have valve disease
• Living with Valve Disease
• Treatment options: Valve Surgery and Balloon Valvotomy
• Heart Surgery - Aortic Valve Surgery in the Young Adult Patient
• Heart Surgery - Biologic Valves: Built to Last
• Heart Surgery - Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery
• Heart Surgery - Mitral Valve Prolapse Surgery
• Heart Surgery - Valve Surgery - Past, Present & Future
• Heart Surgery Program - Cleveland Clinic Heart Center
• Heart Surgery - Alcohol and Surgery
• Heart Surgery - Guided Imagery
• Heart Surgery - Herbals and Surgery
• Heart Surgery Recovery
• Heart Surgery Recovery - Tips to Help You Sleep
• Balloon Mitral Valvotomy
• Learn More: Infective Endocarditis and heart disease
• Learn More: Infective Endocarditis Surgery
• Learn More: Infective Endocarditis Surgery Photos
• Learn More: Mitral Valve Prolapse
• Learn More: Tricuspid Valve Disease
• Learn more: What is a heart murmur?
• Types of Valve Disease
  
• Women and Heart Disease
  • Heart Attack Knows No Gender
  • Heart Health Is Vital To Women Fact Sheet
  • Hormone Replacement Therapy and Heart Disease
  • Ladies: Exercise Your Right - to Exercise!
  • Women and Heart Failure
  • Health Information Pages
    • Women and Heart Disease

Prevention

• Cholesterol
  • Cholesterol Guidelines
  • High Blood Cholesterol: What You Need to Know
    
• Nutrition Strategies
  • 35 Power Foods
  • 8 Steps to Surviving Holiday Weight Gain
  • Antioxidant Food Table
  • Cholesterol Guidelines
  • Convenience Foods
  • Convenience Foods: Grocery Guide
  • Fitting Fast Foods Into A Heart-Healthy Diet
  • Fitting Fiber In
  • Heart Failure Nutrition Guidelines
  • Heart-Health Benefits of Chocolate Unveiled
  • Nutrition & Weight Management Resources
  • Redefining Pizza
  • Sample Menu
  • Should Everyone Over Age 75 Take a Multivitamin?
  • Thanksgiving: The Ultimate Meal Makeover!
  • The Lowdown on Low-Carbohydrate Diets
  • The Power of Fish
  • The Scoop on Flax
  • The Whole Truth and Nutting But the Truth
  • Vegetarian Basics
  • Check Your Physical Activity & Heart Disease I.Q.
    
  • Ask the dietitian
    • Antioxidants
    • Carbohydrates
    • Diet after bypass surgery
    • Heart Healthy Breakfast
    • High Protein Diets & Weight Loss
    • Nutrition Information on the Internet
    • What are sugar alcohols?
    • What is the Mediterranean diet and how can I incorporate it into my busy lifestyle?
    • Are salt substitutes a good way to moderate sodium intake?
    • Can frequent food lower cholesterol?
    • Chocolate
    • Food Labels
    • I have heard that there is a special diet that can help lower blood pressure
    • I heard black tea is good for you. Is that true?
    • I recently heard that eating small meals throughout the day helps lower cholesterol?
    • Portion sizes
    • Healthy Heart Diet
    • What's Omega-3 Fatty Acid?
    • What's tofu?
    • Which is better - Butter or Margarine?
      
  • Recipes
    • Appetizer: Minted Fruit Kabobs
    • Appetizer: Roasted Red Pepper Dip & Vegetables
    • Salad: 4-Bean Salad
    • Salad: Raspberry Chive Salad
    • Soup: Split Pea Soup
    • Soup: Whitefish Chowder
    • Side Dish: Checkerboard Baked Beans
    • Side Dish: Cream Cheese Whipped Potatoes
    • Side Dish: Herb and Apple Stuffing
    • Side Dish: Holiday Vegetables
    • Side Dish: Lemon-Dijon Green Beans
    • Side Dish: Mandarin Bulgar Salad
    • Side Dish: Oven Roasted Vegetables
    • Side Dish: Sweet Potatoes in an Orange-Brown Sugar Glaze
    • Side Dish: Sylvia's Latkes
    • Side Dish: Twice Baked Potatoes
    • Main Course: Chicken, Grilled Rainbow Kabobs, with Pasta
    • Main Course: English Muffin Pizza
    • Main Course: Falafel with a Zesty Yogurt Sauce
    • Main Course: Grilled Beef Fajitas
    • Main Course: Grilled Polenta with Tuscan Style Vegetables
    • Main Course: Grilled Veggie & Beef Kabobs
    • Main Course: Jambalaya
    • Main Course: Mushrooms and Artichokes with Edamame over Spaghetti
    • Main Course: Orange Baked Salmon
    • Main Course: Pasta Primavera with Spinach Noodles
    • Main Course: Roasted Beef Tenderloin
    • Main Course: Roasted Flank Steak and Fall Vegetables
    • Main Course: Roasted Turkey
    • Main Course: Tofu in a Tasty Peanut Sauce
    • Dessert: Crunchy Pumpkin Pie
    • Dessert: Kris' Pumpkin Pie with Whipped Topping
    • Dessert: Raspberry Fresh Cheesecake
    • Drinks: Peach Smoothie
    • Sauces: Guilt-Free Béarnaise
• Smoking
  • Smoking and Heart Disease
  • Smokeless in Cleveland
  • CCF "Join Joe" Anti Smoking Campaign
    
• Diabetes
  • Health Information Pages
    • Diabetes and Diet
    • Diabetes and High Blood Pressure
    • Diabetes and Hypoglycemia
    • Diabetes and Insulin
    • Diabetes: Diet and Exercise
    • Nutrition Basics for People with Diabetes
• Hypertension
  • Ask the dietitian: DASH
  • Strategies to control high blood pressure
  • Your blood pressure
    
• Exercise
  • Exercise for your health
  • Pulse and Target Heart Rate
  • Make your program a success!
  • Check your physical activity & heart disease I.Q.
  • Exercise and the Heat
  • Exercise and Weight Control
  • Exercise, Too Little of a Good Thing
  • Exercise: How much is enough?
  • Getting Real about How Much to Exercise:
  • How to Choose a Cardiac Rehabilitation Program
  • Ladies: Exercise Your Right - to Exercise!
  • More Evidence That Exercise Is Important
  • Occupational Therapy and Heart Surgery
  • Pilates
  • Rated Perceived Exertion (RPE) Scale
  • Strength Training
  • Tennis: Stronger Mind & Body
  • Top 10 Reasons Why Older Adults Should Exercise
  • What Is The Best Type of Aerobic Exercise?
  • What is the true risk factor for heart disease: lack of physical activity or cardiovascular fitness?
    
• Stress & Emotions
  • Anger & Heart Attack
  • Behavior Change Resources
  • Depression & Heart Disease
  • Guided Imagery
  • Stress Management and Your Heart
    
• Weight Management
  • The Lowdown on Losing Weight
  • Exercise and Weight Control
  • Sample Food Diary
  • Snacks Under Calories
  • What’s in a Serving?
    
• Women & Prevention
  • Abnormal Heart Beats in Women (arrhythmia)
  • Diagnosis of heart disease in women
  • Family History
  • Estrogen and heart disease
  • Heart Attack Knows No Gender
  • Heart Health Is Vital To Women Fact Sheet
  • Hormone Replacement Therapy and Heart Disease
  • Ladies: Exercise Your Right - to Exercise!
  • Smoking and Women
  • Symptoms of Heart Disease in Women
  • Women and Heart Disease: Diet and Lifestyle
  • Women and Heart Failure
  • Women and Metabolic Syndrome
  • Health Information Pages
    • Women and Heart Disease
• Evaluation of Risk Factors
  • Are you at risk for heart disease?
  • Blood Tests to Determine Risk of Coronary Artery Disease
  • C-reactive protein
  • Lipid Blood Tests
    
• Integrative - Healing Heart Therapies
  • Antioxidants, Vitamin E, Beta Carotene, and cardiovascular disease
  • Guided Imagery & Heart Surgery
  • Herbal Supplements & Surgery
  • Herbal Supplements:Helpful or Harmful?
  • Should Everyone Over Age 75 Take a Multivitamin?
    
• Preventive Cardiology & Rehabilitation Program
  

Tests & Procedures

• Electrocardiograph Tests
  • Ambulatory Monitors
  • Electrocardiogram
  • Exercise Stress Test
  • Head Upright Tilt Test
  • Metabolic Exercise StressTest
    
• Common Laboratory Tests
  • Blood Count
  • Blood Sugar Tests
  • Blood tests for those taking anticoagulants (blood thinners)
  • B-type Natriuretic Peptide (BNP) blood test
  • Electrolytes
  • Enzymes and Proteins
  • Lipid blood tests
  • Blood Tests to Determine Risk of Coronary Artery Disease
  • Thyroid blood tests
  • Waste Products
  • Learn more: C-reactive protein
    
• Nuclear Imaging
  • Multigated Acquisition Scan
  • Positron Emission Tomography
  • Sestamibi Exercise Stress Test
  • Thallium Exercise Stress Test
    
• Ultrasound Tests
  • Echocardiogram
  • Dobutamine Stress Echocardiogram
  • Transesophageal echocardiogram
  • Exercise Stress Echocardiogram
    
• Radiographic Tests
  • Calcium-Score Screening Heart Scan
  • Cardiac Computed Tomography
  • Chest X-ray
  • Coronary Computed Tomography Angiogram
  • Magnetic resonance imaging
    
• Invasive Testing
  • Carotid angiography
  • Cardiac Catheterization
  • Electrophysiology Study
  • Intravascular ultrasound
  • Myocardial biopsy
    
• Procedures
  • Biventricular Pacemaker
  • Cardiac Implant Closure Device
  • Cardioversion
  • Catheter Ablation
  • Coronary artery bypass surgery
  • Enhanced external counterpulsation
  • Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator
  • Interventional Procedures
  • Lead extraction
  • LifeVest
  • Pacemaker Implant
  • Pericardiocentesis
  • Pulmonary vein ablation
  • Surgical procedures for atrial fibrillation
  • Valve Surgery & Balloon Valvotomy

Your heart and blood vessels

• Where is your heart and what does it look like?
• How does blood travel through your body?
• How does blood flow through the heart?
• How does the heart beat?
• What are the coronary arteries?
• Simple Clues to Your Heart
• Heart Facts
• Illustrations of the heart and blood vessels

Medications

• Medication Search
• Taking Medications Safely
  

Newsletters

• Heart Newsletter
  • Heart: Volume 3, Number 1, March 3
  • Heart: Volume 3, Number 2, July 3
  • Heart: Volume 3, Number 3, Winter 3
  • Heart: Volume Three, Number Two, October 3
  • Heart: Volume Four, Number Two, Summer 4
  • Heart: Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 4
  • Heart: Volume 5, Number 1, Winter 5
  • Heart: Volume 5, Number 2, Spring 5
• Health Extra Newsletter

HeartProfilers

• Ask the Doctor
  • Topic: Angina
  • Topic: Anxiety and Chest Pain
  • Topic: Atrial Fibrillation
  • Topic: Atrial Fibrillation and potassium
  • Topic: Blood Pressure & Skipped Beats
  • Topic: Blood Pressure Medications and Side Effects
  • Topic: Coated Stents
  • Topic: Enlarged Heart
  • Topic: Heart Murmur
  • Topic: Left Ventricular Hypertrophy
  • Topic: Painful PVCs
  • Topic: Recovery after bypass
  • Topic: Sinus Arrhythmia
  • Topic: WPW
    
• Education Calendar
  
• Our Success Stories

History of Innovations

• Timeline
• A Look into the Future
  • Artificial Hearts & Assist Devices
  • Cardiac Imaging MRI & CT
  • Extraterrestrial House Call
  • First Gene Link to Heart Attack, Coronary Artery Disease
  • Innovations in the treatment of atrial fibrillation
  • New Innovations in Interventional Procedures- Restenosis Rates Reduced
  • New Stents, Hopes — And Questions
  • Robot Assisted Heart Surgery
  • Two new approaches are being tested to treat leaky mitral valves without surgery
  • Ultrasound Technology
  • Valve Surgery - Past, Present, Future

Information for Health Care Professionals

• How to Refer a Patient
  • Referal Checklist
    
• Fellowship, Residency, & Special Programs
  • Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery Resident Training & Fellowship Program
  • Cardiothoracic Anesthesia
  • Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Special Courses
    • Certified Registered Nurse Anesthesist Program
    • Contemporary Treatments in Cardiology
    • RN First Assist Training Program
    • The Cleveland Clinic Foundation School of Cardiovascular Perfusion
      
• Education Calendar
  
• Case Studies
  • CT Surgery Case Studies & Journal Club
    • Aortic Root Replacement with Cryopreserved Allograft for Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis
    • Patients Prosthesis Mismatch Is Rare After Aortic Valve Replacement
• Presentations
  
• Online CME
• Publications Search