• Heart Transplant Surgery Overview A heart transplant is a procedure in which a surgeon removes a diseased heart and replaces it with a donor heart. During a heart transplant, a mechanical pump circulates blood through the body while the surgeon removes the diseased heart and replaces it with a healthy heart from a recently deceased donor. The surgeon...
  • Heart Health: Where Will You Be in 5 Years? Hear what motivated other people to make changes to keep their heart healthy.
  • Heart Health: Finding Support for Healthy Changes Hear how one woman found the support she needed to make heart-healthy choices.
  • Heart-Healthy Eating Heart-healthy eating means eating food that can help lower your risk of heart disease, heart attack, and stroke. It focuses on eating more healthy foods and cutting back on foods that aren't so good for you. It is part of a heart-healthy lifestyle...
  • Heart Failure: Being Active Learn how exercise is good for your heart and how to be active and safe.
  • Heart Failure: Limiting Fluids Learn tips for limiting fluids—if your doctor has asked you to—when you have heart failure.
  • Heart Failure: How Support Can Help Learn how to reach out to family or friends for support when you have heart failure.
  • Sudden Heart Failure Sudden heart failure occurs when heart failure gets worse very quickly. Your heart suddenly cannot pump as much blood as your body needs. Sudden heart failure causes rapid fluid buildup, or congestion, in the lungs and other parts of the body. Sudden heart failure is an emergency. You need care right away. Sudden heart...
  • Peripheral Arterial Disease Discusses peripheral arterial disease, a narrowing or blockage of arteries that results in poor blood flow to your arms and legs. Discusses causes and symptoms. Covers treatment with a healthy lifestyle, medicines, a procedure, or surgery. Also offers prevention tips.
  • Oxygen Treatment for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Covers oxygen treatment to increase oxygen flow to lungs and blood when you have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Explains that oxygen therapy may slow or prevent heart failure. Covers oxygen use during exercise, sleep, and travel.

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