Category: Heart Disease FAQ
Heart Disease FAQ
Athletic heart (athlete's heart) is hypertrophy (thickening of the walls) due to the regular physical training.
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ECG / Electrophysiology
IRBBB: Incomplete right bundle branch block - partial conduction delay in the right bundle branch.
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Heart Disease FAQ
Balloon mitral valvotomy is the modern treatment for mitral stenosis (narrowing): balloon at the tip a long tube is used to enlarge the narrowed valve.
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Heart Disease FAQ
Smoking and heart attack is an important association. Smokers have up to 400% greater chance of getting heart disease.
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Heart Disease FAQ
Basically there are two types of treadmills for exercise at home. They mechanical ones and electrical driven treadmills.
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Heart Disease FAQ
Opening narrowed heart valves without surgery is by dilating them with balloons introduced into the heart through blood vessels.
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Heart Disease FAQ
If the slowing of heart rate is significant enough to become dangerous, stopping of lithium and substituting it with another medication is advisable.
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Heart Disease FAQ
LAD is short for left anterior descending coronary artery, branch of left main coronary artery, which supplies blood to the front portion of left ventricle.
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ECG / Electrophysiology
Absent P waves can occur in atrial stand still either as an idiopathic disorder or following extensive radiofrequency ablation in the right atrium.
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ECG / Electrophysiology
Since idioventricular rhythm is not a stable rhythm, the heart rate has to be stabilized by pacemaker implantation if the rhythm is permanent.
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