Heart disease is a broad term to describe problems with the cardiovascular system. Without using a search engine, how many types of heart problems...
Ischemic heart disease is a dynamic process of atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries or functional alterations of coronary circulation that can be modified by lifestyle, pharmacological therapies, and revascularization. Such treatment may result in disease stabilization or regression. New terminology ...
Heart disease is a term that covers a very wide range of conditions that affect the heart and the blood vessels in the heart. In this lesson we will look closer at the types of heart disease and the treatments options. Types of Heart Disease ...
Definitions, terminology, classifications and new and old approaches. Postgrad Med J 1992;68(Suppl 1): S3-6.Goodwin JF. Cardiomyopathies and specific heart muscle disease: definition, terminology and classification. In: Goodwin JF, ed... JF Goodwin - 《Postgraduate Medical Journal》 被引量:...
摘要: The first aim of this short presentation is to help to clear definition and terminology about heart failure (HF). The second target is to show how patients with HF benefit from regular follow-up and monitoring of bio-medical parameters. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1091.0321 年份: 2016 收藏...
Heart disease is caused by too much “bad” cholesterol (LDL-C). LDL-C is the only target of therapy you need to worry about. Calcium scores and CT angiograms (CTA) are great ways to further risk-stratify (the corollary: when these tests are negative, there is no need to treat the...
A few years ago, one moment in time changed my entire way of dealing with heart disease. A man had a heart attack and collapsed during a fun run. I helped in his resuscitation only to find out that had seen the very same man two years earlier and reassured him that he was fine. A...
The variations of congenital heart disease usually have an unknown etiology. Certain syndromes that occur due to chromosomal abnormalities usually have secondary heart defects which can include atrial septal defects, ventricular septal defects, a patent ductus arteriosus and even in some cases transposition...
Coding for hypertension, hypertensive heart disease, and hypertensive chronic kidney disease hasn't changed much from the ninth edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9) to the tenth edition (ICD-10). However, too few physicians select the more specific, risk-adjusted codes ...
Proposed Terminology Stage Definition and Criteria At risk for HF A At risk of HF; asymptomatic, no structural heart disease nor cardiac biomarkers of stretch injury (eg, patients with hypertension, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity, exposure to cardiotoxic...