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.
Congenital malformations of the bicuspid right ventricle
A bicuspid right ventricle is a congenital defect in which the aorta and the pulmonary artery largely or wholly diverge from the right ventricle. It very often coexists with a ventricular septal...
Heart rhythm disorders
The correct functioning of the heart has a huge impact on our health and proper functioning.
Tilt test in cardiac diagnosis
The tilt test, or tilt test, is a diagnostic test performed when a patient has syncope and it is suspected that the underlying cause is a cardiovascular problem.
Sauna and cardiovascular disease
Sauna bathing has a positive effect on many aspects of health. It is also used as a source of relaxation and as a beauty treatment. Radical temperature changes can be too much of a shock to the...
Pericardial diseases
The pericardium is a thin membrane, a kind of sac (known as the pericardial sac) that surrounds the heart muscle.
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.
Inflammatory heart diseases - pharmacotherapy
Inflammatory heart diseases arise as a result of infectious (and microbial toxins) or non-infectious factors (e.g. due to metabolic disorders).
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...
