Preventing heart disease or restoring your health after a heart attack, stroke, or vascular event is the goal
Hypertension is the sideward pressure exerted by the column of blood on the blood vessels. When the heart contracts, its exerts as certain pressure
When there is a sudden blockage in the blood vessels supplying the muscles of the heart it is termed as myocardial infarction or heart attack in simple terms
It is the sudden cessation of cardiac pumping activity. There is immediate loss of consciousness due to no blood flow i.e. oxygen supply to the brain
Visualisation of the blood vessels of the body with the help of x-rays after injecting a contrast which is usually made of iodine is called angiography.
It is a simple and relatively safe procedure by which the coronary arteries are visualised on fluoroscopy. A catheter is inserted usually form
The process of angioplasty involves getting a wire across the blocked artery then railing a balloon along the wire and opening the block by inflating the balloon.
When your heart pumps less than 50% of the blood into the circulation we call it systolic heart failure i.e heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (EF < 50%)
Troponin and CPKMB are enzymes increased after a few hours of heart attack which are detected in the blood
It is a simple device widely available, very economical and easily usable used to measure the blood pressure and pulse. Advisable that it is present
Formation of clot in the deep veins of the body usually the lower limbs is called deep vein thrombosis (DVT).Blood in the vessels is in a liquid state
It is the dilation and reduction of the pumping function of the heart to less than 45 percent in the last month of pregnancy or 5 months after delivery
Obstruction to the flow of blood in the arteries of the lung with blood clot(most common), tumor cells, fat or air in called PTE. Usually the clot moves up