MedStar Health Blog

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a heart muscle disease that causes the heart to enlarge and the muscular walls of the heart to become thin and weak, so the heart cannot properly pump blood to the res...

Heart failure is a common cardiac diagnosis and one of the leading causes of hospitalization in the United States. You may be surprised to learn that there are gender differences in heart failure, fr...

Sports are so much more than games. Athletes of all ages and levels learn lifelong skills while getting a healthy dose of exercise and endorphins. As a sports cardiologist and a former collegiate soc...

The carotid arteries run along both sides of the neck, supplying the brain with oxygenated blood to help it manage all the body’s functions. But when a patient develops carotid artery stenosis (CAS),...

When a patient comes to us with symptoms of chest pain and shortness of breath, they’re usually worried that they’re having a heart attack. While ruling out a heart attack based on imagin...

Each year, an estimated 200,000 people in the U.S. get a pacemaker—consisting of a metal, disc-shaped battery surgically placed under the skin of the chest and connected to the inside chambers of the...