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Cardiology - Adult Heart Diseases

Details

Cardiology is a medical specialty and a branch of internal medicine concerned with disorders of the heart. It deals with the diagnosis and treatment of such conditions as congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, electrophysiology, heart failure and valvular heart disease. Subspecialties of the cardiology field include cardiac electrophysiology, echocardiography, interventional cardiology and nuclear cardiology.

Diseases Diagnosed and Treated

  • Coronary artery disease (hardening of the arteries)
  • Myocardial infarction (heart attack)
  • Rhythm and conduction disturbances (arrhythmias)
  • Heart valve diseases
  • Aortic Vascular Diseases
  • Peripheral vascular disease (leg artery disease)
  • Heart failure
  • Congenital heart disease
  • Hypertension
  • High Cholesterol

Non-invasive procedures

  • Heart disease risk identification and check-ups (advanced cardiac screening program – ‘SHAPE’)
  • 2- and 4- dimensional echocardiography and Color Doppler
  • Stress echocardiography
  • Stress Test ECG exercise testing
  • Rhythm Holter (24-48 hour rhythm monitoring)
  • Blood Pressure Holter (24-hour blood pressure monitoring)

 

Interventional procedures

  • Transesophageal echocardiography
  • Coronary angiography and cardiac catheterization
  • Balloon angioplasty and stent applications (Medicated stents and biodegradable stents)
  • Electro-physiologic examination (for the diagnosis of rhythm and conduction disorders)
  • Ablation and pacemaker application (for the treatment of rhythm and conduction disorders)
  • Cardiac resynchronization therapy (for the treatment of heart failure)

Recovery Time

Most cardiology diseases patients go back to work within two weeks to three months depending on the severity of the disease.

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