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Patient Education

• "Reaching Up" for Shoulder Flexibility

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• ACL Rehabilitation: Stationary Bike

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• Activity and ACL Rehabilitation

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• Advanced Exercises After Knee Replacement Surgery

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• After Bypass Surgery: Your Role in Recovery

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• After Carotid Artery Stenting: In the Hospital

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• After Heart Valve Surgery

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• After Heart Valve Surgery (Child)

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• After Heart Valve Surgery: At Home

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• After Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery: At Home

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• After Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery: In the Hospital

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• After Open-Heart Surgery: In the Hospital

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• Arthritis: Exercise

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• Back Exercises- Neck and Torso Rotation

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• Back Exercises: Abdominal Lift Brace with Marching

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• Back Exercises: Arm Reach

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• Back Exercises: Back Extension with Elbow Press

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• Back Exercises: Back Press

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• Back Exercises: Cat and Cow

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• Back Exercises: Knee Lift

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• Back Exercises: Leg Pull

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• Back Exercises: Leg Reach

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• Back Exercises: Lower Back Rotation

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• Back Exercises: Lower Back Stretch

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• Back Exercises: Partial Curl-Ups

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• Back Exercises: Pelvic Tilt

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• Back Exercises: Seated Rotation

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• Back Exercises: Side Stretch

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• Before Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery

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• Bent-Knee Calf Stretch

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• Biventricular Pacemaker and ICD (Biventricular ICD)

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• Cardiac Rehabilitation

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• Cardiac Rehabilitation: Emotional Issues

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• Cardiac Rehabilitation: Following an Exercise Program

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• Chest Exercises

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• Chronic Lung Disease: Starting an Exercise Plan

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• Common Heart Medicines

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• Coping with Heart Failure

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• Coronary Stents

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• Diabetes and Heart Disease

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• Diagnosing Heart Valve Problems

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• Discharge Instructions for a Ventricular Assist Device

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• Discharge Instructions for Angina

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• Discharge Instructions for Carotid Artery Stenting

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• Discharge Instructions for Heart Attack

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• Discharge Instructions for Heart Failure

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• Discharge Instructions for Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD)

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• Discharge Instructions for Pacemaker Implantation

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• Discharge Instructions: After Your Child’s Heart Surgery

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• Discharge Instructions: Taking Fast-Acting Nitroglycerin

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• Discharge Instructions: Taking Long-Acting Nitroglycerin

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• Dysphagia: Exercises

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• Electrophysiology Study (EPS)

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• Exercise After Bypass Surgery: Start Slowly

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• Exercise After Bypass Surgery: Walking

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• Exercise After Knee Replacement Surgery

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• Exercise for Parkinson Disease

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• Exercises After Breast Surgery: Ball Squeeze, Arm Cross, Broom Stretch

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• Exercises After Breast Surgery: Wall Climb, Chicken Wing

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• Exercises for Shoulder Flexibility: Adduction (Reaching Across)

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• Exercises for Shoulder Flexibility: Back Scratch

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• Exercises for Shoulder Flexibility: Broom Stretch

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• Exercises for Shoulder Flexibility: External Rotation

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• Exercises for Shoulder Flexibility: Internal Rotation

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• Exercises for Shoulder Flexibility: Pendulum Exercise

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• Exercises for Shoulder Flexibility: Wall Walk

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• Exercises to Increase Agility- Grapevine (Cross) Steps

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• Exercises to Increase Agility: Figure 8s

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• Exercises to Increase Agility: Short Sprints

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• Exercises to Increase Agility: Side Steps

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• Exercising After a Heart Attack

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• Fast-Acting Nitroglycerin

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• First Aid: Heart Attacks

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• Foot and Ankle Exercises: Single-Leg Heel Raise

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• Getting Started with Cardiac Rehab- Exercise

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• Hamstring Curl for ACL Healing

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• Hand and Wrist Exercises: Finger Grip and Release

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• Hand and Wrist Mobility Exercises- Wrist Rotations

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• Having a Ureteral Stent

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• Having Cardiac Catheterization

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• Having Carotid Angioplasty and Stenting

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• Having Carotid Artery Stenting

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• Having Chemical Cardioversion

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• Having Lead Extraction

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• Heart Attack: Back at Home

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• Heart Attack: Questions for Your Health Care Team

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• Heart Failure and Depression

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• Heart Failure: Being Active

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• Heart Failure: Dealing with Sleep Problems

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• Heart Failure: Evaluating Your Heart

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• Heart Failure: Know Your Baselines

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• Heart Failure: Making Changes to Your Diet

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• Heart Failure: Procedures That May Help

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• Heart Failure: Tracking Your Weight

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• Heart Failure: Travel Concerns

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• Heart Failure: Warning Signs of a Flare-Up

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• Heart Valve Problems

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• Heart Valve Problems: Aortic Insufficiency

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• Heart Valve Problems: Mitral Insufficiency

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• Heart Valve Problems: Mitral Valve Prolapse

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• Heart Valve Problems: Mitral Valve Stenosis

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• Heart Valve Surgery

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• Hip Rotator (Piriformis) Stretch

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• Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

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• Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)

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• Incision Care: Chest

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• Intimacy and Heart Disease: Communication Tips

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• Intimacy and Heart Disease: Resuming Sexual Intimacy

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• Intimacy and Heart Disease: Talking with Your Partner

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• Intimacy and Heart Disease: Your Emotions

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• Kicking the Smoking Habit

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• Knee Arthroscopy

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• Knee Rehabilitation: Free Squat

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• Know the Medicines You’re Taking

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• Leg and Knee Exercises: Hip Pulls

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• Leg and Knee Exercises: Leg Lunge

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• Leg and Knee Exercises: Leg Press

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• Leg and Knee Exercises: Step-Ups

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• Living Well After a Heart Attack

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• Living with a Pacemaker

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• Living with an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)

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• Long-Acting Nitroglycerin

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• Lower Body Exercises- Thigh (Quad) Stretch

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• Lower Body Exercises: Calf Stretch

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• Lower Body Strengthening After Amputation

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• Medicines for Heart Valve Problems

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• My Heart Failure Symptoms Chart

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• Neck Exercises- Neck Rotation

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• Neck Exercises- Overhead Arm Raise

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• Neck Exercises: Active Neck Rotation

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• Neck Exercises: Head Lifts

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• Neck Exercises: Neck Flex

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• Neck Exercises: Neck Isometrics

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• Pacemakers

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• Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA) in Premature Infants

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• Pendulum Exercise for Use with Shoulder Repair Surgeries

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• Pericarditis

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• Peripheral Angioplasty

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• Peripheral Arterial Angioplasty and Stent

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• Preparing for Carotid Artery Stenting

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• Pulmonary Rehabilitation

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• Quad Set for Leg and Knee

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• Recognizing a Heart Attack or Angina

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• Recovery from Heart Surgery: The First Few Weeks

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• Rehabilitation for Kneecap (Patella) Problems

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• Renal Angioplasty and Stenting

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• Risk Factors for Heart Disease

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• Shoulder and Arm Exercises- Elbow Extension-Triceps Press

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• Shoulder Clock Exercise

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• Shoulder Exercises: Shoulder Press

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• Shoulder Exercises: Wall Pushup

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• Shoulder Squeeze Exercise

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• Shoulder, Upper Back, and Arm Exercise- Overhead Arm Stretch

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• Stroke and Heart Disease

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• Surgery for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

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• Symptoms of a Heart Attack

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• Taking ACE Inhibitors

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• Taking Medicine to Control Heart Failure

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• Taking Medicines for Your Heart

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• Taking Your Medicines After a Heart Attack

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• Tips for Taking Medicines

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• Treating Frozen Shoulder: Exercises

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• Treating Syncope: Helping Your Heart

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• Treatment for Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy

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• Treatment for Your Child’s Aortic Stenosis (AS)

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• Treatment for Your Child’s Atrial Septal Defect (ASD)

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• Treatment for Your Child's Hypoplastic Ventricle- Stage 1 (Norwood)

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• Understanding Advanced Heart Failure and Left Ventricular Assist Devices

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• Understanding Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia

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• Understanding Carotid Angioplasty and Stenting

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• Understanding Chemical Cardioversion

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• Understanding Heart Palpitations

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• Understanding Heart Valves

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• Understanding Lead Extraction

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• Understanding Replacement of an Implantable Heart Device

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• Unstable Angina

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• Upper Body Exercises: Chest Press

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• Upper Body Exercises: Front Raise

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• Upper Body Exercises: Upright Row

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• Upper Body Strengthening After Amputation

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• Using an Event Monitor

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• Venous Angioplasty and Stenting

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• Ventricular Arrhythmia

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• Wall Squats

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• Wall Squats for ACL Healing

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• Warning Signs of a Heart Attack

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• What Is Angina?

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• What Is Heart Failure

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• When to Use the Emergency Room (ER)

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• When Your Child Has a Cardiac Arrhythmia

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• When Your Child Has a Hypoplastic Right Ventricle: Tricuspid Atresia

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• When Your Child Has a Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA)

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• When Your Child Has a Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD)

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• When Your Child Has an Atrial Septal Defect (ASD)

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• When Your Child Has an Atrioventricular (AV) Canal Defect

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• When Your Child Has Aortic Stenosis (AS)

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• When Your Child Has Coarctation of the Aorta (COA)

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• When Your Child Has Heart Failure

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• When Your Child Has Pulmonary Stenosis (PS)

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• When Your Child Has Rheumatic Fever

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• When Your Child Has Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF)

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• When Your Child Has Transposition of the Great Arteries (TGA)

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• Women and Heart Disease: Tips for Making Small Changes

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• Women and Heart Disease: Understanding the Risks

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• Women and Heart Disease: What Women Need to Know

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• Your Child’s Heart Surgery: Preparation

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• Your Child's Cardiac Catheterization for Coarctation of the Aorta

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• Your Child's Coarctation of the Aorta (COA) Surgery

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• Your Child's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome

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• Your Child's Surgery for Transposition of the Great Arteries (TGA)

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• Your Child's Tetralogy of Fallot Surgery

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• Your Heart Risk Action Plan

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• Your Heart's Electrical System

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• Your Recovery Plan