-
A one-way valve that is implanted in the airways in the lung help people with COPD and emphysema breathe more easily.
-
Atrial fibrillation is a heart rhythm problem that causes irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia) and abnormal blood flow.
-
A heart condition in which there is narrowing at or near the pulmonary valve. As a result, the heart must work harder than usual to pump blood to the lungs where it is oxygenated. Those with moderate to severe pulmonary stenosis may experience shortness of breath, fatigue, chest pain and other symptoms.
-
Cardiac amyloidosis is a disease caused by the accumulation of clumps of abnormally folded protein in the heart muscle. Learn about symptoms and treatment.
-
Also known as preterm birth, premature birth is when a baby is born before the 37th week of pregnancy. Premature babies are at increased risk for a number of health problems.
-
Alzheimer's disease is a type of dementia, causing confusion and memory loss severe enough to interfere with everyday life.
-
Dementia refers to loss of brain function that affects capabilities like remembering, thinking, speaking, understanding others, and acting in socially acceptable ways.
-
Congenital heart disease refers to a structural problem that has affected the way the heart or major blood vessels have formed. Learn about symptoms and treatment.
-
Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting is a surgical procedure that is used to treat coronary artery disease. In the procedure, a surgeon takes healthy blood vessels from elsewhere in the body and uses them to reroute blood around narrowed or blocked sections of affected coronary arteries, thereby restoring blood flow to the heart.
-
An atrial septal defect is a hole in the wall that divides the two chambers of the heart. Learn about symptoms and treatment.
-
A congenital anomaly in which part of the aorta is narrowed, resulting in reduced blood flow to the lower body and legs.
-
A life-threatening heart birth defect that interferes with normal blood flow through the heart. The heart's two great arteries, the aorta and main pulmonary artery, are switched, limiting the heart's ability to provide the body with oxygen-rich blood and preventing oxygen-poor blood from getting to the lung.
-
A congenital heart condition characterized by four different heart abnormalities that prevent blood from flowing through the heart in its normal way.
-
Truncus arteriosus is a rare congenital heart defect in which the heart's two main arteries don't form correctly during fetal development. It changes the way that blood moves through the heart and lungs and throughout the body.
-
A ventricular septal defect is a hole in the wall between the two lower chambers of the heart and is a type of congenital heart defect. Learn about symptoms and treatment.
-
A congenital heart defect characterized by holes in the heart where there are normally walls that separate different heart chambers, as well as abnormal heart valves that leak.
-
COVID-19 is the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2, the 2019 novel coronavirus.
-
A procedure in which a health care provider examines the upper gastrointestinal tract with a thin, flexible tube equipped with a camera called an endoscope. The endoscope is inserted into the nose, down the throat, and into the stomach and sometimes the duodenum, the first part of the small intestine. The procedure is done without sedation.
-
Holmium laser enucleation of the prostate, or HoLEP, is a minimally invasive surgical procedure for the treatment of urinary symptoms caused by an enlarged prostate, also known as benign prostatic hyperplasia. The procedure involves using a holmium laser to remove excess prostate tissue to improve urinary symptoms.
-
Dengue fever, also called dengue, is a mosquito-borne illness caused by infection with any of four closely related dengue viruses. It can cause a range of symptoms including fever, headache, pain behind the eyes, nausea, vomiting, aches and pains, and rash.
Condition, Treatment, and Procedure Fact Sheets from Yale Medicine