Coronary Artery Disease

• Coronary artery disease may be treated with diet and exercise changes, drugs or surgeries such as bypass or angioplasty.
  
  

Abnormal Heart Rhythms

• Abnormal heart rhythms, or arrhythmias, may be treated with vagal maneuvers, surgery, pacemakers, drugs or surgical procedures.
  
  

Congenital Heart Defects

• Some patients born with minor heart defects may never need treatment. More serious cases may be treated with drugs, catheterization, surgery or heart transplants.
  
  

Infection-Related Heart Disease

• Infection-related heart disease may be treated with antibiotics, drugs, devices implanted into the body or heart transplants.
  
  

Disease of the Heart's Valves

• Valvular heart disease is treated with drugs or medical procedures to correct the abnormal valves.