Coronary artery fistula - causes, diagnosis and treatment
Diseases of the heart always have an impact on the patient's comfort of life, often causing many complications that can be life-threatening. What is coronary artery fistula and how can it be treated?
Aortic stenosis: causes and symptoms of the most common valvular heart defect
Aortic stenosis is the most common valvular heart defect and is - along with hypertension and coronary artery disease - one of the most common heart conditions in general. The entity may be...
Atrial fibrillation - everything you need to know about it
Atrial fibrillation is a disease that can be asymptomatic and does not give any alarm. But appearances can be deceiving - atrial fibrillation can even be fatal!
Rehabilitation after corrective heart surgery
The aim of early cardiac rehabilitation is to improve the patient's performance in hospital, as well as taking preventive measures to avoid or reduce the risk of thrombotic and respiratory...
Normal arrhythmia or serious illness - atrial fibrillation
Atrial fibrillation is a serious condition that poses a threat to the patient's health and life. In some cases it is initially asymptomatic, others experience weakness, tinnitus or headaches....
Protein (IGF BP-4) and human embryonic stem cells
The heart is the most important organ of the circulatory system, lying in the thorax inside the pericardial sac. The structure of each heart muscle cell is very complex. Statistics show that more and...
Myocarditis - what tests should be performed?
Thesymptoms of my ocarditis are so non-specific that they do not allow a quick and clear diagnosis to be made. It is a very heterogeneous disease and the clinical picture depends on many external and...
Primary cardiac tumours
Tumours of the heart are relatively rare in relation to other neoplastic lesions. They can be either primary or secondary in origin.
Functional heart disease
Functional heart disease, or cardiac neuropathy, is the term for chronic and recurrent complaints of chest pain. Typically, the complaints do not have an organic basis.
The potential of catheterisation surgery - interventional cardiology in the fight against congenital heart defects
Congenital and structural heart defects are one of the problems facing cardiology. In the field of diagnostics, cardiac imaging techniques are developing rapidly and even three-dimensional images of...
Aortic valve defects
Aortic valve defects are stenosis or regurgitation. In both cases, there is a volume or pressure overload of the left ventricle. The most common symptoms include dizziness, fainting, palpitations.
Gene responsible for sudden cardiac death
Genetic markers that may be responsible for cardiac disorders, resulting in sudden cardiac death, are being searched for all the time. The gene responsible for this condition has been found.
Heart defects
Heart defects usually refer to abnormalities in the formation of the valves. The latter are responsible for properly directing blood flow in the heart.
How are heart defects diagnosed?
Heart defects are usually congenital defects, those others occur for an as yet unexplained reason. Heart defects occur in approximately 1% of newborns worldwide. In our country, more than 3,500...
Sudden cardiac death
Sudden card iac death is defined as death from a cardiac cause occurring immediately or up to one hour after the onset of symptoms in a person with previously known or unknown heart disease.
Dressler syndrome in post-traumatic heart conditions
Cardiovascular diseases are a very important problem for both medicine and governments. They are one of the main causes of mortality and hospitalisation. Increasingly, it is a socially perceived...
Atrioventricular blocks
Atrioventricularblocks are the consequence of delayed or interrupted conduction of impulses from the atria to the ventricles. The conduction disturbance can occur at any stage: in the...
Barlow syndrome - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prognosis
Patients with Barlow syndrome are characterised by a slim physique, and 80% are found to have thoracic skeletal abnormalities (suture chest, scoliosis, reduced thoracic kyphosis). Barlow syndrome...
Barlow syndrome - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Barlow synd rome (flaccid valve syndrome, mitral valve leaflet prolapse) is a set of symptoms that occur in a person who has been diagnosed with mitral valve leaflet prolapse.
Alcohol and cardiovascular disease
Alcoholism is a common phenomenon in the adult population. The consumption of alcohol in large quantities can cause various cardiovascular diseases.
Cardiac neurosis - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Many patients complain of a feeling of an irregular heartbeat, palpitations or fluttering in the chest, felt particularly in stressful situations. Can such complaints be called cardiac neurosis and...
Heart palpitations - a symptom of hyperthyroidism - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
The thyroid gland is a small organ located at the base of the neck. Hyperthyroidism is a condition in which the thyroid gland produces hormones in excess. It affects approximately 1-2% of adults in...
