Penn Heart and Vascular Blog

Avoid These Foods if You Have Heart Failure

August 28, 2020

If you’re living with heart failure, making some simple adjustments to your diet can improve your quality of life. Like, eliminating certain foods and drinks from your diet, especially things that increase fluid retention, contribute to blood sugar problems, or lead to obesity.

Heart Failure Preventive Heart Care
Twelve Reasons to See a Cardiologist

August 21, 2020

Chances are at some point you’ve thought about whether or not to see a cardiologist. General cardiologists are practitioners that focus on the heart. If you are at risk for heart disease, a routine check-up with this specialized physician can help you to be on top of your heart health!

Heart Conditions and Treatments Preventive Heart Care
Everything You Need to Know About Cardiac Catheterization

August 10, 2020

Cardiologists use a procedure called cardiac catheterization to see how well your heart is working. We discuss what this procedure entails and how you’ll prepare for and recover from it.

Heart Conditions and Treatments News and Noteworthy
Before, During and After Your Heart and Vascular Telemedicine Visit

July 08, 2020

Here are a few steps and expectations for before, during and after a heart and vascular telemedicine visit.

News and Noteworthy
Father Survives 3 Heart Attacks

June 29, 2020

In the last four years, Delaney Donaghy’s father has survived three widowmaker heart attacks. She credits his remarkable survival to the care he’s received at Penn Medicine.

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