Mitral Regurgitation is one of the most critical native valve diseases, growing globally. Patients with symptoms, or poor tolerance requires surgical mitral valve repair treatment. This in fact is the advanced version of percutaneous cardiac therapy which expands from percutaneous coronary and peripheral intervention to percutaneous valve intervention. Procedure It has been found the surgical…
A tilt-table test is meant to assess the heart rhythm of those patients who often undergo fainting spells. It is as simple, inexpensive, and low risk procedure. However, the test is not recommended to those patients with a tendency to faint due to heart disease. Orthostatic Hypotension is a problem of comparatively recent origin. Hence…
The term Embolism is derived from the Greek word embolos which means ‘stopper’ or ‘plug’. Embolism is a condition in which an object called embolus created in some part of the body, travels through out the body and blocks blood flowing through a vessel in another part of the body. An embolus is a clot…
What is Rheumatic Fever? Rheumatic fever is inflammation of the body’s organ systems, mainly joints, skin, brain and the heart.The fever mostly develops two or three weeks after the streptococcal infection of the throat. It is so named because of its similarities with Rheumatic disorder (medical conditions affecting the joints and connective tissue). How does…
Cor Pulmonale is a condition of the right ventricle of the heart whereby it experiences immense stresses during its procedure of pumping blood to the lungs. Cor Pulmonale is essentially caused by a respiratory disorder which causes the right ventricle to pump blood much harder into the lungs. If left untreated, it can lead to…
Restrictive Cardiomyopathy refers to heart disorders in which the walls of the heart tissue become stiff thereby inhibiting normal pumping of blood. It is an uncommon type of Cardiomyopathy, or a heart disorder which damages the walls of the heart. The cause of onset of this disorder may be not be determined. Restrictive Cardiomyopathy causes…
The first attempts to view the heart was done in the 1970s using Computrised Tomography(CT).But since the heart was an organ in constant motion and due to the defects in the equipment at that time,the result doctors got was sufficient only for viewing tumors and other major pathological lesions on the surface of the heart.Eversince…
In the sixties, drugs known as Calcium Antagonist Blockers or Calcium Channel Blockers (CCBs) were introduced into cardiovascular medicine and have since become one of the most commonly prescribed drugs in the treatment of heart diseases. Calcium Channel blockers are used for treating Hypertension Angina Pectoris Cardiac Arrhythmias Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction Raynaud’s phenomenon …
Thyroid is a small gland located in the neck. It modulates many vital functions of the body. The hormone the gland produces directly affects the heart and peripheral vascular system. The hormone can increase cardiac input by increasing myocardial inotropy and heart rate and dilate peripheral arteries. Deficiency of the thyroid hormone causes cardio vascular…
Stress levels in a person have a direct wallop on his cardiovascular system. It is a well known fact that stress and ability to cope with it has an association with a person’s wellbeing. But does stress lead to a heart attack? This seems to be the most common question that the people ask in…