Pericardiocentesis, also called a pericardial tap, is a procedure in which a needle and catheter remove fluid from the pericardium, the sac around your heart. The fluid is tested for signs of ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) _ The first human recipient of a self-contained artificial heart went back to surgery to drain fluid from his chest, his doctors said. University of Louisville surgeons Laman Gray ...

The specter of having fluids accumulating around the heart is one that has occupied the attention of many doctors for centuries. In the past, mainly due to a lack of the proper tools to deal with this ...

Many patients hospitalized with severe heart failure are receiving potentially harmful treatment with intravenous fluids, a study has found. Heart failure patients are commonly treated with diuretics ...

PARIS — Two experimental, fully implantable systems under development are designed to address the problem of pathologic fluid overload in heart failure, a major cause of heart failure–related deaths. ...