Cardiovascular Medicine

Advanced Heart Disease/Heart Failure

• Advanced Heart Disease
• Understanding and Treating Heart Failure: A Guide for Patients and Families
• Take Heart with Heart Failure: A Patients Guide to Heart Failure

Heart Rhythm Problems

• What you should know about Cardioversion
• What you should know about Catheter Ablation
• What you should know about Pacemakers
• What you should know about Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

Cardiac Catheterization and Interventional Cardiology

• A Guide to Heart Catheterization
• Patient Instructions for Cardiac Catheterization

Non-Invasive Cardiology

• A Patient’s Guide to Saline Contrast Study (“Bubble Study”)
• A Patient’s Guide to an Ultrasound Contrast Study
• Transesophageal Echocardiogram

Medications

• Patient Instructions/FAQs about warfarin (Coumadin)

Women and Cardiovascular Disease

• Women and Cardiovascular Disease: Heart Smart for Life
  

From the American Heart Association ...

• A - Z Heart Guide
• Heart Attack Warning Signs
• Preventing Heart Disease
• Diseases and Conditions
• Lifestyle Guide
• Dietary Guidelines
• Risk factors for Heart Disease
• What is a Heart Attack?
• What is Atrial Fibrillation?
• What is Bypass Surgery?

Other Resources ...

• Harvard Heart Letter