The phrase "ailing heart" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is emotionally or physically suffering, often in a poetic or metaphorical context.
Example: "After the loss of her beloved pet, she felt an ailing heart that seemed to weigh her down with sorrow."
Alternatives: "suffering heart" or "troubled heart."
Exercise is excellent medicine for an ailing heart, or for keeping a healthy one healthy.
Surgeons attached the heart "piggy-back" to Mr. Couch's ailing heart.
A troubled mind can distract doctors from an ailing heart or a budding cancer.
Healing hearts: Scientists are testing new stem-cell therapies that could help heal the ailing heart.
If you have an ailing heart, starting — and sticking with — a cardiac rehabilitation program is an excellent undertaking.
Cardinal Egan looked healthy, especially for a 77-year-old man with an ailing heart.
WHATEVER the outcome of the battle for Guidant, an American maker of pacemakers and defibrillators for ailing hearts, hindsight is likely to show that at least one of the bidders missed a beat.
Solid evidence that the wasting can be reversed in some patients comes from ventricular assist devices, which are mechanical pumps that many surgeons have implanted as piggybacks to help ailing hearts pump more effectively.
A more immediate goal is to improve upon a multitude of smaller therapies: transplantable valves for ailing hearts, cell-and-gel preparations for crushed nerves, injections of skeletal muscle cells for urinary continence or new salivary gland tissue to rescue radiation patients from dry mouth.
As aging boomers and their elders submit in growing numbers to surgery for ailing hearts and aching joints, the number of patients in hospital beds each night in New York City has leveled off after more than a decade of steep decline, and is even showing signs of rising.
In a takedown of trials testing whether cell transplants could help ailing hearts, a team at Imperial College London suggests that the more discrepancies a study had, the more powerful the benefit it reported for patients with heart problems.
