Heart Disease

Resources in this category:

American Health Assistance Foundation (AHAF)
http://www.ahaf.org/

The American Health Assistance Foundation (AHAF) web site provides basic information for the public about Alzheimer's, macular degeneration, glaucoma, heart disease and stroke concerning such factors as symptoms, risk factors, health choices, and new research findings. Apply here to for funding from the foundation's research efforts.

American Heart Association
http://americanheart.org/

Everything you need to know about keeping your heart healthy. Information for patients, caregivers, healthcare professionals, and researchers.

American Heart Association
http://www.americanheart.org/

"The American Heart Association is a not-for-profit, voluntary health organization funded by private funds. Its mission is to reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke. These include heart attack, stroke and related disorders." This site provides access to information regarding documentation, a searchable index of heart and stroke material, annual reports, resources, programs, news, legislation, opportunities and related sites.

Angina Pectoris
http://www.muschealth.com/gs/HeartCenter.aspx?PageID=P06303

Describes symptoms, diagnosis factors, treatment options, and types of angina pectoris. It also highlights the similarities and differences between heart attacks and angina.

The Arrhythmia Service
http://www.arrhythmia.org/

"This web site will introduce you to our practice and provide basic information about arrhythmia and the procedures we use to diagnose and treat these conditions. You can also visit us often to read the latest news on arrhythmia and see what clinical trials are being conducted by our staff to advance our knowledge about arrhythmia and related heart disorders." Use the menu to find extensive information about the disorder.

Arrhythmia: A Patient Guide
http://www.heartinfo.org/search/display.asp?Id=364&caller=45...

Describes arrhythmia, reasons for occurring, various types of arrhythmia, tests, treatments, and a list of additional information sources. Heartinfo is written by cardiologists and is "dedicated to empowering and encouraging consumers and health care professionals in their effort to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease."

Auscultation Assistant
http://www.med.ucla.edu/wilkes/intro.html

"Show of hands, please. Who of you has wondered what mysterious sounds flow through doctors' stethoscopes while you follow their instructions about how to breathe. If you're curious, but no doctor's about with a handy-dandy stethoscope, you can still get answers. Go to "Auscultation Assistant", instead. The site offers medical students and doctors exercises in the fine art of auscultation. Here, though, you too can listen to a wide range of physiologic and pathologic heart murmurs and breathing sounds; every "specimen" comes with a brief explanation about its source and why it sounds that way. It's more or less as if you were visiting a real patient, but with a little difference; patients lack hypertext links to the right diagnoses. "

The Congenital Heart Disease Resource Page
http://www.csun.edu/~hcmth011/heart/

The Congenital Heart Disease Resource Page is a source of information about specific diseases and support groups for parents of children with congenital heart disease . This page contains information about heart diseases, heart transplants, support groups for parents, related print resources, a list of listservs, excerpts from newsletters, and links to other sites on congenital heart disease.

Facts About Cardiomyopathy
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/cm/cm_what.html

Introduces types of cardiomyopathy, diagnoses, treatments, and describes the courses of the diseases.

Heart Link
http://www.heartlink.org.uk/

"Heart Link offers practical help, advice and comfort to heart patients, their families and carers." Articles include The Reason for Angiography, A Simple Explanation of Ischemia, and What is By-pass surgery? Heart Link also offers a real time counselling service via email, phone and Internet Relay Chat.

Heart Surgery Forum
http://www.hsforum.com/

"Cardiac surgery has been on the cutting edge since the first cardiac transplant, performed by Christian Barnard in 1967, often giving the impression of something between sorcery and astronautics. If you wonder what cardiac surgery really is, and what cardiac surgeons do when performing open-heart operations - apart from earning a lot of money - go to the Heart Surgery Forum. It has all the answers you need. Beyond the staff-only sections and .jpeg images (definitely not for the faint of heart ... ), a section for laypeople explains the main issues of cardiac surgery. Would you like to ask a question? No problem. The cardiac surgeons will be glad to give an answer - and all without calling for your health insurance. "

Invision Guide to a Healthy Heart
http://www.invisionguide.com/

Heavily Flash-driven site offering both video and text information on the human heart and the many things that can go wrong with it. Broadband connection reccommended.

My Heart Central
http://www.healthcentral.com/heart-disease/

Information about Heart Attacks, Hypertension, Heart Failure, Arrhythmias, and Stroke. Recent news articles, nutrition guide, and question-and-answer library available.

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/

Find health related information about your heart, lungs, and blood. Features of the site include clinical guidelines on overweight and obesity (including a body mass index calculator), Latino cardiovascular health resources, and several interactive tools for high blood pressure, determining your body mass index, and more.

Recovering From Heart Problems through Cardiac Rehabilitation
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat2.chapter...

Designed for patients, this pamphlet presents guidelines to cardiac rehabilitation as well as keys to heart health and risk factors for heart disease.