Easier to Understand

Adjusting to Your Tracheostomy Tube
After Bypass Surgery: Caring for Your Incision
After Bypass Surgery: Choosing Household Chores
After Bypass Surgery: Driving and Social Activities
After Bypass Surgery: Get Plenty of Rest
After Bypass Surgery: Reaching, Bending, and Lifting
After Bypass Surgery: Your Role in Recovery
After Heart Valve Surgery (Child)
After Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery: At Home
After Your Bypass: Pacing Yourself
All About Cholesterol Control
Cardiac Rehabilitation: Emotional Issues
Carotid Artery Disease
Causes of Syncope
Chest Echocardiography (Transthoracic)
Chest Tubes
Controlling High Blood Pressure
Controlling Your Cholesterol
Coping with Heart Failure
Diagnosing Syncope
Discharge Instructions for Cardiac Catheterization
Discharge Instructions for Cardiomyopathy
Discharge Instructions for Heart Attack
Discharge Instructions for Heart Failure
Discharge instructions for high blood pressure (hypertension)
Discharge Instructions: Taking Your Pulse
Exercise After Bypass Surgery: Start Slowly
Exercise After Bypass Surgery: Walking
Exercising Safely
Healthy Eating Tips to Help Lower Your Cholesterol
Heart Attack: Back at Home
Heart Failure
Heart Failure and Depression
Heart Failure and Physical Activity
Heart Failure: After Your Hospital Stay
Heart Failure: Being Active
Heart Failure: Breathe More Easily
Heart Failure: Dealing With Sleep Problems
Heart Failure: Evaluating Your Heart
Heart Failure: Getting the Care You Need
Heart Failure: Know Your Baselines
Heart Failure: Making Changes to Your Diet
Heart Failure: Tracking Your Weight
Heart Failure: Travel Concerns
Heart Failure: Warning Signs of a Flare-Up
Heart Valve Problems
Heart Valve Problems: Mitral Insufficiency
Heart Valve Surgery
High Cholesterol (Hypercholesterolemia)
High Cholesterol: Assessing Your Health Risks
How the Heart Works
How to Take Your Pulse
Incision Care: Chest
Intimacy and Heart Disease: Communication Tips
Kicking the Smoking Habit
Living Well After a Heart Attack
Living with Atrial Fibrillation: Preventing Stroke
Living with Cardiomyopathy
Lowering Stress for Cardiovascular Health
Medicine for Cholesterol Control
My Heart Failure Symptoms Chart
Nutrition for Wound Healing
Pulse Oximetry Screening for Congenital Heart Defects
Recovery From Heart Surgery: The First Few Weeks
Right Bundle Branch Block
Stress Echocardiography (Echo)
Suctioning Your Tracheostomy
Taking Amlodipine
Taking Digoxin
Taking Medicine to Control Heart Failure
Taking Potassium
Taking Your Blood Pressure
Tests to Diagnose a Stroke
Tracheostomy Care
Tracheostomy Tube or Stoma: Your New Airway
Tracking Symptoms of Heart Failure
Treatment for Your Child’s Hypoplastic Ventricle: Stage II
Treatment for Your Child's Hypoplastic Ventricle- Stage 1 (Norwood)
Treatment for Your Child's Hypoplastic Ventricle- Stage III (Fontan)
Understanding Advanced Heart Failure and Left Ventricular Assist Devices
Understanding Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib)
Understanding Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia (CPVT) (Child)
Understanding Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)
Understanding Fetal Echocardiography
Understanding Heart Valves
Understanding High Blood Pressure
Understanding Left Bundle Branch Block
Understanding Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Replacement
Understanding Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass (CABG) Surgery
Understanding Open Mitral Valve Replacement
Understanding Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT)
Understanding Your Cholesterol Numbers
What Is a Tracheostomy?
What Is Dilated Cardiomyopathy?
What Is Heart Failure
When Your Child Has Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
When Your Child Needs a Tracheostomy
When Your Child Needs a Tracheostomy: Suctioning
Women and Heart Disease: Tips for Making Small Changes
Your Emotional Health After Bypass Surgery
Your Heart Is at Risk
Your Heart's Electrical System
Your High Blood Pressure Risk Factors
Your Risk Factors for Heart Disease
Your Tracheostomy Tube: Answers to Common Questions

Acute Myocardial Infarction

Common Heart Medicines
Coronary Angioplasty
Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
Coronary Artery Spasm
Coronary Stents
Discharge Instructions for Heart Attack
First Aid: Heart Attacks
Having Cardiac Catheterization
Heart Attack
Heart Attack: Questions for Your Health Care Team
How the Heart Works
Learning About the Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke With Diabetes
Recognizing a Heart Attack or Angina
Risk Factors for Heart Disease
Symptoms of a Heart Attack
Taking a Beta-Blocker
Taking ACE Inhibitors
Taking Medicines for Your Heart
Understanding Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)
Understanding Heart Valves
Unstable Angina
Warning Signs of a Heart Attack
Your Emotional Health After a Heart Attack

Anatomy & Physiology

Understanding Circulation
Your Heart's Electrical System

Arrhythmias/Electrophysiology

Arrhythmias
Biventricular Pacemaker and ICD (Biventricular ICD)
Having Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT)
Having Catheter Ablation
Having Chemical Cardioversion
Having Electrical Cardioversion
Having Lead Extraction
Having Loop Recorder Implantation
Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)
Learning About Long QT Syndrome (LQTS)
Living with a Pacemaker
Living with an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)
Living with Atrial Fibrillation: Preventing Stroke
Living with Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT)
Pacemaker: Leadless: General Info
Pacemaker: Leadless: Post-op
Pacemaker: Leadless: Pre-op
Pacemakers
Pericarditis
Right Bundle Branch Block
Subcutaneous Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (S-ICD)
Supraventricular Tachycardia
Treatment for Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy
Treatment for Left Bundle Branch Block
Treatment for Premature Ventricular Contractions (PVCs)
Treatment for Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT)
Understanding a Heart Murmur
Understanding Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (ARVC)
Understanding Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib)
Understanding Atrial Flutter
Understanding Bradycardia
Understanding Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT)
Understanding Chemical Cardioversion
Understanding Electrical Cardioversion
Understanding First-Degree Heart Block
Understanding Heart Palpitations
Understanding Lead Extraction
Understanding Left Bundle Branch Block
Understanding Loop Recorder Implantation
Understanding Premature Ventricular Contractions (PVCs)
Understanding Replacement of an Implantable Heart Device
Understanding Second-Degree Heart Block
Understanding Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT)
Understanding Tachycardia
Understanding Temporary Cardiac Pacing
Understanding Third-Degree Heart Block
Using an Event Monitor
Ventricular Arrhythmia
Wearable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Vest: General Info

Diseases & Conditions

Aortic Dissection
Cardiac Amyloidosis
Discharge Instructions for Femoral Endarterectomy
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
Having Axillary Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump Therapy
Ischemic Cardiomyopathy
Left Atrial Appendage Closure (LAAC)
Myocarditis
Sick Sinus Syndrome
Sudden Cardiac Arrest
Treatment for Infective Endocarditis
Understanding Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) in Adults
Understanding Axillary Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump Therapy
Understanding Cardiogenic Shock
Understanding Coronary Microvascular Disease
Understanding Infective Endocarditis
Understanding Left Ventricular Hypertrophy (LVH)
Understanding Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)
Understanding Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD)
Ventricular Tachycardia: General Info

Blood Pressure Management

Controlling High Blood Pressure
High Blood Pressure and African Americans
High Blood Pressure and Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)
Taking Your Blood Pressure
Understanding High Blood Pressure
Your High Blood Pressure Risk Factors

Cardiac Rehabilitation

Cardiac Rehabilitation
Cardiac Rehabilitation: Emotional Issues
Cardiac Rehabilitation: Following an Exercise Program
Exercising After a Heart Attack
Getting Started with Cardiac Rehab: Exercise
Heart Attack: Back at Home
Heart Attack: Leaving the Hospital
Heart Attack: Returning to Sexual Activity
Heart Attack: Your Recovery Plan
Intimacy and Heart Disease: Communication Tips
Intimacy and Heart Disease: Resuming Sexual Intimacy
Intimacy and Heart Disease: Talking With Your Partner
Intimacy and Heart Disease: Your Emotions
Living Well After a Heart Attack

Cholesterol Management

Controlling Your Cholesterol
High Cholesterol and Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)
High Cholesterol: Assessing Your Health Risks
Lifestyle Changes to Control Cholesterol
Medicine for Cholesterol Control
Understanding Fat and Cholesterol
Understanding Food and Cholesterol
Understanding Your Cholesterol Numbers

Coronary Artery Disease

Coronary Angiogram: Post-op
Coronary Angiogram: Test Only: Pre-op
Coronary Angioplasty
Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
Coronary Artery Spasm
Coronary Atherectomy
Coronary Stents
Exercising Safely After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)
Follow-up Appointment After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)
Having Carotid Angioplasty and Stenting
High Blood Pressure and Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)
High Cholesterol and Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)
Lifestyle Management After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)
Minimally Invasive Bypass Surgery
Recognizing a Heart Attack or Angina
Risk Factors for Heart Disease
Symptoms of a Heart Attack
Understanding Carotid Angioplasty and Stenting
Understanding Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)
What Is Angina

Diagnostics

Cardiac Catheterization: Left
Cardiac Catheterization: Right
Cardiac Nuclear Imaging (Nuclear Stress Test)
Cardiac Procedures
Chest Echocardiography (Transthoracic)
Coronary Angiography
Diagnosing Syncope
Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography (Echo)
Electrocardiogram (ECG)
Electrophysiology Study (EPS)
Exercise Stress Test
Having a Contrast Echocardiogram
Having Cardiac Catheterization
Heart Failure: Evaluating Your Heart
Right Heart Catheterization: Pulmonary Artery Catheterization: Post-op
Right Heart Catheterization: Pulmonary Artery Catheterization: Pre-op
Risks and Complications of Angiography
Stress Echocardiography (Echo)
Tilt Table Testing
Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE)
Understanding Loop Recorder Implantation
Understanding Remote Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitoring
What Is Event Monitoring?
What Is Holter Monitoring?

Dietary Changes

Eating Heart-Healthy Foods
Facts About Dietary Fat
Heart Failure: Making Changes to Your Diet
How to Judge Serving Sizes
Low-Fat Cooking Tips
Low-Salt Choices
Reading Food Labels
Tips for Using Less Salt
Understanding Dietary Fat
Using the DASH Plan for Heart-Healthy Eating

Heart Failure

Coping with Heart Failure
Coronary Artery Spasm
Heart Failure and Depression
Heart Failure Zones: Your Action Plan
Heart Failure: Being Active
Heart Failure: Dealing With Sleep Problems
Heart Failure: Evaluating Your Heart
Heart Failure: Know Your Baselines
Heart Failure: Making Changes to Your Diet
Heart Failure: Procedures That May Help
Heart Failure: Tracking Your Weight
Heart Failure: Travel Concerns
Heart Failure: Warning Signs of a Flare-Up
High Blood Pressure and Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)
High Cholesterol and Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)
How to Take Your Pulse
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Learning About Anasarca
Living with Cardiomyopathy
Living with Heart Failure: Goals for Management
Medicines for Cardiomyopathy
My Heart Failure Symptoms Chart
Pericarditis
Taking Medicine to Control Heart Failure
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy
Tracking Symptoms of Heart Failure
Understanding Advanced Heart Failure and Left Ventricular Assist Devices
Understanding Left Ventricular Assist Devices
Understanding Surgery for a Left Ventricular Assist Device
Understanding Total Artificial Heart
Unstable Angina
What Is Dilated Cardiomyopathy?
What is Ejection Fraction?
What Is Heart Failure

Heart Surgery

After Bypass Surgery: Caring for Your Incision
After Bypass Surgery: Caring for Yourself
After Bypass Surgery: Choosing Household Chores
After Bypass Surgery: Driving and Social Activities
After Bypass Surgery: Get Plenty of Rest
After Bypass Surgery: Getting Up and Out of Bed
After Bypass Surgery: Prevent Swelling in Your Legs
After Bypass Surgery: Reaching, Bending, and Lifting
After Bypass Surgery: Visits With Your Health Care Team
After Bypass Surgery: Your Role in Recovery
After Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery- In the Hospital
After Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery: At Home
After Open Heart Surgery: In the Hospital
After Your Bypass: Pacing Yourself
Atrial Fibrillation Surgery
Before Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery
Controlling Your Risk Factors After Bypass Surgery
Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
Discharge Instructions for Catheter Ablation
Exercise After Bypass Surgery: Start Slowly
Exercise After Bypass Surgery: Walking
Having a Percutaneous Balloon Pericardiotomy
Having a Septal Myectomy
Having Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump Therapy
Having Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Surgery
Having Pericardial Window Surgery
Having Pericardiectomy
Having Pericardiocentesis
Having Transcatheter Repair for Coarctation of the Aorta
Heart Medicines After Bypass Surgery
Heart Valve Surgery
Heart Valve Surgery and Your Mood
Managing Pain After Bypass Surgery
Minimally Invasive Bypass Surgery
Minimally Invasive Valve Surgery
Nutrition After Surgery
Pericardial Window
Recovery From Heart Surgery: The First Few Weeks
Robotic-Assisted Cardiac Surgery
Starting a Cardiac Rehab Program
Treatment for Aortic Valve Regurgitation
Treatment for Carotid Dissection
Treatment for Heart Transplant Rejection
Treatment for Pericardial Effusion
Understanding Coarctation of the Aorta: Transcatheter Repair
Understanding Heart Transplant Rejection
Understanding Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump Therapy
Understanding Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass (CABG) Surgery
Understanding Percutaneous Balloon Pericardiotomy
Understanding Pericardial Effusion
Understanding Pericardiectomy
Understanding Pericardiocentesis
Understanding Septal Myectomy
Understanding Transradial Cardiac Catheterization
When to Call the Doctor After Bypass Surgery
Your Emotional Health After Bypass Surgery

Medications

All About Cholesterol Control
Angiotensin Receptor Blockers (ARBs)
Common Heart Medicines
Fast-Acting Nitroglycerin
Know the Medicines You’re Taking
Long-Acting Nitroglycerin
Medicines for Heart Disease
Taking a Beta-Blocker
Taking a Diuretic
Taking ACE Inhibitors
Taking Amlodipine
Taking Blood Thinners After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)
Taking Digoxin
Taking Medicines for Your Heart
Taking Potassium
Taking Your Medicines After a Heart Attack
Tips for Taking Medicines
What to Know When Taking Warfarin

Risk Factor Management

Aerobic Exercise for a Healthy Heart
Diabetes and Heart Disease
Exercise for a Healthier Heart
High Blood Pressure and Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)
High Cholesterol and Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)
Kicking the Smoking Habit
Losing Weight for Heart Health
Lowering Stress for Cardiovascular Health
Progressive Relaxation
Stroke and Heart Disease
Tips for Quitting Smoking (Cardiovascular)
Understanding Smokeless Tobacco
Women and Heart Disease: Tips for Making Small Changes
Women and Heart Disease: Understanding the Risks
Women and Heart Disease: What Women Need to Know
Your Heart Is at Risk
Your Heart Risk Action Plan
Your Risk Factors for Heart Disease

Syncope

Causes of Syncope
Treating Syncope: Helping Your Heart
Treating Syncope: Prevention
Understanding Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)
What Is Syncope?

Valve Disease

After Heart Valve Surgery
After Your Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR)
Diagnosing Heart Valve Problems
Having a Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR)
Having Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Replacement
Having Open Mitral Valve Replacement
Heart Valve Problems
Heart Valve Problems: Aortic Insufficiency
Heart Valve Problems: Aortic Stenosis
Heart Valve Problems: Mitral Insufficiency
Heart Valve Problems: Mitral Valve Prolapse
Heart Valve Problems: Mitral Valve Stenosis
Heart Valve Surgery
Medicines for Heart Valve Problems
Minimally Invasive Valve Surgery
Treatment for Mitral Valve Regurgitation
Tricuspid Valve Regurgitation
Understanding Aortic Valve Regurgitation
Understanding Heart Valves
Understanding Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Replacement
Understanding Mitral Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair (M-TEER)
Understanding Mitral Valve Regurgitation
Understanding Open Mitral Valve Replacement
Understanding Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR)

Other procedures

Left Atrial Appendage Closure: Percutaneous: Post-op
Peripheral Artery Angioplasty: Post-op
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