Studies reveal that chronic diseases are by far the leading cause of death in the world and their impact is steadily growing. Among them, cardiovascular disease in people aged 35-64 is the leading cause. Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) is assuming large proportion in the population due to various factors like change of life styles, lack…
Thallium or cardiolite scanning is a diagnostic technique that uses a radioactive isotope or a tracer to evaluate the amount of blood reaching different parts of heart. These are included in the category of nuclear medicine scans. It is otherwise known as thallium imaging or myocardial perfusion scan or cold spot imaging. This method is…
Brugada Syndrome is a rare genetic disorder characterized by heart rhythm abnormalities. Brugada syndrome if untreated can result in sudden death. The condition may be inherited in some cases. It is often characterized by sudden death and the ECG pattern is characterized by incomplete right bundle branch block and ST elevations in the anterior precordial…
Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia is a type of cardiomyopathy, a disease that affects the heart muscle, the myocardium, causing abnormal heart rhythms or arrhythmia. It is a condition that sets in when the right ventricle of the heart is affected, causing the muscle to be replaced by fat and fibrosis. This leads to arrhythmia. The…
Renal artery stenosis (RAS) is the condition where one or both the arteries starts narrowing thereby depriving the kidneys from blood supply. This is often caused by atherosclerosis. The image below gives a clear description of RAS. Causes Renal artery stenosis (RAS) is caused by the hardening of the renal arteries. A material called plaque…
Beating Heart Surgery, as the term suggests, is the surgery performed on a beating heart, that is, without stopping it. Surgeons use a special type of device to stabilize the part which they have to operate on and let the heart do its function of rotating blood through muscles uninterrupted. This method has tremendously curtailed…
Heart patients, who are living with implanted devices and have to see their doctors often for regular checkups, have got a reason to relax now. They can get their checkups done without running to their doctors each time. They need not worry if their doctors are travelling and are not available to look at their…
Heart is the muscular organ which is very much essential for human survival as it constantly pumps and supplies oxygenated blood to tissues and collects deoxygenated blood from tissues and sends it to the lungs for the purpose of purification. For the proper functioning of the heart, the inevitable element is oxygen that is supplied…
Viagra is know for its positive effects against ED (erectile dysfunction). Now the drug is also being administered for pulmonary hypertension and has been identified to be therapeutically effective against several other conditions such as Mountain sickness, Raynaud’s phenomenon, heart disease, and more. Here is a report. Harvard Men’s Health Watch has published a report…
Heart supplies oxygen to all parts of the body and any defects in the heart affects the normal functioning of the whole body. Hence, monitoring the efficiency of the heart is often done on a regular basis.The physician can get a very good idea about the functioning of heart when it is subjected to physical…