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As you recover from your short-term treatment for VTE, you will need to follow up with your doctor regularly to monitor your condition and discuss whether you need to continue taking blood-thinning medicines. You will also want to take steps to prevent a repeat VTE event and be aware of possible long-term complications.

Advances in diagnosis and treatment allow many children with congenital heart defects to survive to adulthood, which means that more and more adults are living with congenital heart disease. Even if your congenital heart defect was repaired in childhood, you need regular medical follow-up to maintain good health.

If you have been diagnosed with sarcoidosis, it is important that you continue your medicine, follow up with your doctor when directed, make healthy lifestyle changes, and prevent complications. Some people may achieve total, or life-long, remission. Other people may achieve temporary remission and go on to experience a relapse, or return of the disease. If you are pregnant, talk to your doctor about the medicines you take to avoid problems for you and your baby.

Your hospital stay after surgery could last a month or more. Recovery time after TAH surgery will depend a lot on your health before the surgery. As with any surgery, there are possible surgery-related complications after getting a TAH such as blood clots, bleeding, or infection.

Eating too much sodium and having certain medical conditions can cause high blood pressure. Taking certain medicines, including birth control pills or over-the-counter cold relief medicines, can also make blood pressure rise.

If you have been diagnosed with high blood pressure, it is important that you continue your treatment plan. Following your treatment plan, getting regular follow-up care, and learning how to monitor your condition at home are important. These steps can help prevent or delay complications that high blood pressure can cause.

Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome is a condition that causes an irregular heart rhythm, or arrhythmia.

Anemia is a condition in which your blood has a lower-than-normal amount of red blood cells or hemoglobin.

If you or your child is at increased risk of arrhythmia, the doctor may want to do a screening to assess the risk of a life-threatening event. Sometimes screening is required to participate in competitive sports. If your child carries a genetic risk of arrhythmia, your child’s doctor may recommend regular screening to monitor your child’s heart or other family members’ health. Heart-healthy lifestyle changes and other precautions can help decrease the risk of triggering arrhythmia.

Bronchitis is a condition in which the airways in the lungs become inflamed and cause coughing, often with mucus, or wheezing. Acute bronchitis goes away after a few weeks but chronic bronchitis last for months and can be serious. Learn more about symptoms and treatment, and how to participate in clinical trials.