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The words angiography and angioplasty sound close enough that many patients assume they mean one procedure. In fact, they are two separate steps. Angiography is a diagnostic test, where X-rays and contrast dye show which blood vessels are narrowed or blocked....

One moment someone is chatting, walking or sitting at their desk. The next, they’re on the floor. That’s cardiac arrest, and it rarely gives anyone time to prepare. Most of us have never seen it happen. So here’s what actually goes on inside the body, and what you can...

People tend to use “heart attack” and “cardiac arrest” for the same thing, but the two start from different faults in the heart. A heart attack occurs when an artery supplying the heart muscle gets blocked, while cardiac arrest happens when the heart’s rhythm breaks...

Ever put a tight chest down to gas? Or blamed the stairs for your breathlessness? Small symptoms are easy to explain away, and the heart rarely makes a scene. This World Heart Day 2026 (29 September), the World Heart Federation's "Don't Miss a Beat" message is a nudge...

If you've been asking around, you've probably noticed the answer changes depending on who you ask. That's because angioplasty cost in Pune isn't a fixed number, it moves with the hospital, the stent, and the complexity of the blockage. Private hospitals in the city...

Think of a pacemaker as a tiny electrical backup for your heart. It's implanted just under the skin and steps in whenever your natural rhythm slows down or misfires. Doctors implant well over a million of these devices worldwide every year, and bradycardia, a heart...

A heart attack at 30. It sounds wrong, doesn't it? Like something that's supposed to happen to someone much older, someone else's parent, not you. But it happens more than people assume. Being young isn't a shield. Smoking, high cholesterol, high BP, diabetes,...

OCT allows cardiologists to see the inside of an artery 10 times more detail than if they were using intravascular ultrasound. OCT is used along with heart catheterization procedures, including angioplasty, in which cardiologists use a tiny balloon on the tip of a...