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AtherosclerosisMyocardial infarctionCardiacLeft coronaPeripheral arteryStrokeAngiographyAtrialCongestive heart fHypertensionComputed tomographyComplicationsCardiomyopathyPercutaneous coronary intExtent of coronaryDiabetes mellitusBypass graftAcute CoronaryAtheroscleroticSymptomsInternal mammarBlockageCVDsPredictorsStableCalcificationPrognosticChestReducesCirculationInflammationMicrovascular diseaseClinicalCentersRisksFailureCardiologistPlaqueCardiovascular disease riskCABGRevascularizationPrevalenceDiabetic patientsAngioplastyObstructionMortalityBlood vesselsElectrocardiogramSystolicRisk factorsHospitalizationOutcomes
Atherosclerosis6
Myocardial infarction7
Cardiac23
  • Cardiac rehabilitation (rehab) is an important program for anyone recovering from a heart attack, heart failure, or other heart problem that required surgery or medical care. (cdc.gov)
  • Advanced certification is available in Interventional Cardiology (diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease with invasive methods), Cardiac Electrophysiology (evaluation treatment of dysrhythmias), and Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology (management of advanced heart failure) following additional training beyond the basic cardiovascular disease fellowship. (acponline.org)
  • A number of tests may help with diagnoses including: electrocardiogram, cardiac stress testing, coronary computed tomographic angiography, and coronary angiogram, among others. (wikipedia.org)
  • Heart disease, scarring of the heart, and cardiac amyloid, which frequently occurs after a heart transplant, are thought to be possible causes. (healthline.com)
  • Cardiac imaging is central to the diagnosis and risk stratification of coronary artery disease, beyond symptoms and clinical risk factors, by providing objective evidence of myocardial ischaemia and characterisation of coronary artery plaque. (bmj.com)
  • New cardiac CT techniques can assess coronary artery inflammation by imaging perivascular fat, and this may represent an important step forward in identifying the 'residual risk' that is not detected by plaque or ischaemia imaging. (bmj.com)
  • Cardiac CT (CCT) imaging has transformed the detection, characterisation and stratification of coronary artery disease (CAD) risk in individuals. (bmj.com)
  • The death certificate and autopsy, completed and performed by the Medical Examiner, listed "cardiac dysrhythmia" due to "atherosclerotic coronary artery disease" as the immediate cause of death and "superimposed physical exertion" as a contributing factor. (cdc.gov)
  • This list includes some preventive measures that have been recommended by other agencies to reduce the risk of on-the-job heart attacks and sudden cardiac arrest among fire fighters. (cdc.gov)
  • 2005) Cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention of coronary heart disease. (scirp.org)
  • Inverse-variance weighted MR was utilized for analyses on outcomes of atrial fibrillation, coronary artery disease, heart failure, ischaemic stroke, and 16 measures of cardiac structure and function. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Cardiac PET, myocardial blood flow quantification in ischemic and non-ischemic heart disease, myocardial inflammation, myocardial viability, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, cardiomyopathies. (upenn.edu)
  • Cardiac surgery is surgery on the heart and/or great vessels performed by a cardiac surgeon. (indiacatalog.com)
  • Frequently, it is done to treat complications of ischemic heart disease (for instance, coronary artery bypass grafting), correct congenital heart disease, or nurse valvular heart disease cased by various reasons including endocarditis, and also includes heart transplantation.nderstanding Cardiac Surgery? (indiacatalog.com)
  • Cardiac surgery or heart surgery is conducted to correct defects or problems in the heart that can otherwise not be corrected through medication. (indiacatalog.com)
  • With the development of medical facilities in India Cardiac surgery India has become a practical and dependable option for those suffering from debilitating cardiac problems.Cardiac surgery may be required by individuals having problems in their heart which cannot be corrected through medication. (indiacatalog.com)
  • We developed a workflow using multi-scale and multi-disciplinary experimental and computational approaches to analyze C-looping (the first phase of cardiac looping) of the chick across four developing hearts. (bvsalud.org)
  • Development of heart begins with the formation of the cardiac fields followed by a linear heart tube formation. (bvsalud.org)
  • As aberrant looping results in various congenital heart diseases, the mechanisms of cardiac looping have been studied for several decades by various disciplines. (bvsalud.org)
  • Heart failure develops when the heart, via an abnormality of cardiac function (detectable or not), fails to pump blood at a rate commensurate with the requirements of the metabolizing tissues or is able to do so only with an elevated diastolic filling pressure. (medscape.com)
  • This chest radiograph shows an enlarged cardiac silhouette and edema at the lung bases, signs of acute heart failure. (medscape.com)
  • Heart failure (see the images below) may be caused by myocardial failure but may also occur in the presence of near-normal cardiac function under conditions of high demand. (medscape.com)
  • Heart failure always causes circulatory failure, but the converse is not necessarily the case, because various noncardiac conditions (eg, hypovolemic shock, septic shock) can produce circulatory failure in the presence of normal, modestly impaired, or even supranormal cardiac function. (medscape.com)
Left corona1
  • As basis for their quantification, they measured the remaining lumina in the right coronary artery, main left coronary artery and its anterior descending and circumflex branches. (dovepress.com)
Peripheral artery2
  • May 5, 2020 Using genetic analysis, researchers found higher alcohol consumption increased risks for stroke and peripheral artery disease (PAD). (sciencedaily.com)
  • And patients with HFpEF were more frequently to be female, to be older, and to have comorbid peripheral artery disease, but less frequently had AMI, CAD and kidney disease than those with HFrEF. (researchsquare.com)
Stroke13
Angiography4
  • To determine the best combination of parameters that would improve the diagnostic performance of exercise testing, coronary angiography plus exercise testing were done on 112 patients with angina pectoris and normal electrocardiogram. (who.int)
  • CT coronary angiography can detect coronary plaque with high resolution, estimate the degree of functional stenosis and characterise plaque features. (bmj.com)
  • Consequently, invasive coronary angiography (ICA) became the gold standard for diagnosis of CAD. (bmj.com)
  • The patient undergoes coronary angiography and LAD shows chronic total occlusion with collaterals. (acc.org)
Atrial1
  • The effects are also unkown for those with unstable angina, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, most cancers, those who are immunosuppressed, have chronic obstructive airways disease, blood clots, and chronic kidney disease. (diabetesaustralia.com.au)
Congestive heart f2
  • Which of the following changes to the medication regimen would you now recommend in your discussion with his endocrinologist/diabetologist/internist to reduce his CV and congestive heart failure (CHF)-related risks? (acc.org)
  • Heart failure - Congestive heart failure occurs when the heart becomes too weak to properly pump blood and oxygen around the body. (medicalert.org)
Hypertension2
  • Long-term high blood pressure , aging, diabetes , or thyroid disease can also cause acquired types of hypertension-related cardiomyopathy. (healthline.com)
  • Other factors such as sedentary lifestyle, less physical exercise, the habit of eating junk food and overall poor diet can lead to increased incidence of uncontrolled diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol which are some of the major risk factors for heart disease," adds Dr Dora. (indiatimes.com)
Computed tomography2
  • A computed tomography (CT) scan that looks in the coronary arteries for calcium buildup and plaque. (cdc.gov)
  • In nondiabetic patients, a number of factors may be used to stratify the level of risk of coronary disease, including clinical history, resting ventricular function, exercise capacity, the presence and extent of ischemia at single-photon emission-computed tomography (SPECT), or stress echo. (diabetesjournals.org)
Complications5
Cardiomyopathy14
Percutaneous coronary int1
Extent of coronary2
  • The exercise electrocardiogram (ECG) is used in the evaluation of symptomatic patients to predict the presence and extent of coronary artery disease (CAD) [1,2]. (who.int)
  • Intravascular imaging, using ultrasound (IVUS) or optical coherence tomography, reveals that angiographic assessment of the coronary lumen grossly underestimates the presence, nature and extent of coronary artery plaque. (bmj.com)
Diabetes mellitus1
  • CHOICE A The patient has diabetes mellitus (DM) complicated with CHF, extensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), chronic kidney disease (CKD), and PAD. (acc.org)
Bypass graft2
Acute Coronary2
  • Overview of Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS) Acute coronary syndromes result from acute obstruction of a coronary artery. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Revascularization for Acute Coronary Syndromes Revascularization is the restoration of blood supply to ischemic myocardium in an effort to limit ongoing damage, reduce ventricular irritability, and improve short-term and long-term outcomes. (msdmanuals.com)
Atherosclerotic1
Symptoms10
Internal mammar2
  • The surgeon will then find and prepare an artery on your chest wall (internal mammary artery) to attach to your coronary artery that is blocked. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Usually the blood vessel is taken from an artery in the chest, called the internal mammary artery. (mayoclinic.org)
Blockage4
CVDs1
  • Even though cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the main of cause of the global burden of diseases attributable to PM exposure, it remains difficult to show reliable associations between exposure to wildland fire smoke and cardiovascular disease risk in population-based studies. (frontiersin.org)
Predictors1
Stable4
  • In those with stable CAD it is unclear if PCI or CABG in addition to the other treatments improves life expectancy or decreases heart attack risk. (wikipedia.org)
  • this phenomenon is termed stable angina and is associated with narrowing of the arteries of the heart. (wikipedia.org)
  • Right care of the needs of your heart to function properly and stay active at a stable heartbeat. (heartfailureguideline.org)
  • Lesions that cause blockages in the coronary arteries may be stable or unstable. (medscape.com)
Calcification1
  • CCT imaging for CAD initially quantified coronary artery calcification, as it was readily detected on CT images, and quantified to generate a coronary artery calcium score (CACS) that represented a surrogate marker of the presence and extent of CAD. (bmj.com)
Prognostic1
Chest9
Reduces3
  • With advanced disease, the narrowing of coronary arteries reduces the supply of oxygen-rich blood flowing to the heart, which becomes more pronounced during strenuous activities during which the heart beats faster. (wikipedia.org)
  • The narrowing reduces blood flow to the heart even during light exercise or at rest. (mayoclinic.org)
  • The purpose of this study is to determine whether Glyceryl Trinitrate (GTN) reduces injury to the heart during heart-lung bypass surgery in combination with the newer technique of remote ischaemic preconditioning (RIPC). (druglib.com)
Circulation2
  • In addition, patients with arterial disease of the lower limbs who receive Ginkgo extract have shown a clinically and statistically significant improvement in pain-free walking distance, maximum walking distance and in circulation measurements. (rxmed.com)
  • Radiation from Medical Procedures in the Pathogenesis of Cancer and Ischemic Heart Disease" (Gofman 1999) is a massive dose-response study which began extensive circulation for peer-review among scientists in epidemiology, cancer etiology, IHD etiology, and health physics, immediately after its publication in November 1999. (ratical.org)
Inflammation3
  • However, coronary artery disease risk is also driven by biological processes, such as inflammation, that are not fully reflected by severity of stenosis, myocardial ischaemia or by coronary plaque features. (bmj.com)
  • Coronary artery disease risk assessment that incorporates clinical factors, plaque characteristics and perivascular inflammation offers a more comprehensive individualised approach to quantify and stratify coronary artery disease risk, with potential healthcare benefits for prevention, diagnosis and treatment recommendations. (bmj.com)
  • Inflammation, depressive symptomtology, and coronary artery disease. (medhelp.org)
Microvascular disease1
  • If maternal diabetes is longstanding or associated with known microvascular disease, obtain a baseline maternal electrocardiogram (ECG) and echocardiogram. (medscape.com)
Clinical6
  • Diabetic patients have a high prevalence of ischemic heart disease with peculiar clinical, anatomic and therapeutic features. (scielo.edu.uy)
  • Lupus nephritis is clinically evident in 50-60% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and it is histologically evident in most SLE patients, even those without clinical manifestations of kidney disease. (medscape.com)
  • This was the second largest randomized trial to test stem cell injection in treating heart disease, but a larger, phase III clinical trial is needed before the treatment will be approved. (iflscience.com)
  • Although NHANES I provides a wealth of information on the prevalence of health conditions and risk factors, the cross-sectional nature of the original survey limits its usefulness in studying the effects of clinical, environmental, and behavioral factors and in tracing the natural history of disease. (cdc.gov)
  • Heart failure (HF) is a complex clinical syndrome caused by any structural or functional impairment of ventricular filling orejection of blood[1].It has been considered as one of the major public health concerns with high mortality and economic burden of the patients all over the world. (researchsquare.com)
  • Apart from rare congenital anomalies (birth defects), CAD is usually a degenerative disease, uncommon as a clinical problem before the age of 30 years and common by the age of 60 years. (medscape.com)
Centers4
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cannot attest to the accuracy of a non-federal website. (cdc.gov)
  • According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly half of all Americans have at least one of these key risk factors. (medicalert.org)
  • ATSDR received considerable assistance in this work from the Cardiovascular Diseases Branch of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC). (cdc.gov)
Risks1
Failure13
Cardiologist1
Plaque7
  • Coronary artery disease is caused by plaque buildup in the wall of the arteries that supply blood to the heart (called coronary arteries). (cdc.gov)
  • Plaque buildup causes the inside of the arteries to narrow over time. (cdc.gov)
  • CAD is caused by plaque buildup in the walls of the arteries that supply blood to the heart (called coronary arteries) and other parts of the body. (cdc.gov)
  • Plaque is made up of deposits of cholesterol and other substances in the artery. (cdc.gov)
  • Plaque buildup causes the inside of the arteries to narrow over time, which can partially or totally block the blood flow. (cdc.gov)
  • Angina can happen when too much plaque builds up inside arteries, causing them to narrow. (cdc.gov)
  • It is caused by a buildup of plaque in the blood vessels of the heart. (medicalert.org)
Cardiovascular disease risk2
  • Is job strain a major source of cardiovascular disease risk? (cdc.gov)
  • Randox is a leading provider of diagnostic reagents for the assessment of cardiovascular disease risk. (randox.com)
CABG2
  • The surgery, commonly called CABG, may reduce the risk of heart disease-related death. (mayoclinic.org)
  • Remote ischaemic preconditioning (RIPC) has been shown to reduce perioperative myocardial injury (PMI) in patients having CABG even when cold blood cardioplegia or intermittent cross clamp fibrillation is used as cardioprotective measures. (druglib.com)
Revascularization1
Prevalence4
  • Therefore, it is important to the patients, health-care, and society that the prevalence of IHD is reduced and the burden of disease is made a priority. (scirp.org)
  • The prevalence of heart attacks amongst the younger lot is on a steady rise, thanks to a multitude of modern-day conundrums. (indiatimes.com)
  • Adding to it, Dr M. Udaya Kumar Maiya, Medical Director, Portea Medical says, "The prevalence of heart diseases among young Indians is on the rise. (indiatimes.com)
  • [ 1 ] Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a growing problem worldwide, with a prevalence of 10% to 15% in North America. (medscape.com)
Diabetic patients1
Angioplasty1
Obstruction1
  • In another study, 1 they used a more precise system by classifying the coronary vessels as non/slightly/moderately/severely/totally obstructed depending on the grade of obstruction in percental gradations from no to total stenosis, but they concentrated on the major arteries and branches. (dovepress.com)
Mortality2
  • Ischaemic heart disease is a leading cause of mortality in the western world. (druglib.com)
  • ABSTRACT A retrospective study of death certificates from 2000 to 2004 was made to estimate the contribution of diabetes to total mortality in Benghazi, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, and to study the causes of death among diabetics (coded using the International Classification of Diseases). (who.int)
Blood vessels4
Electrocardiogram1
  • However, resting ST segment changes may be false positive responses for epicardial coronary disease ( 5 ), and false positive ST segment changes and poor exercise capacity may reduce the utility of standard exercise electrocardiogram testing. (diabetesjournals.org)
Systolic1
  • By the end of the 59-person trial, treated patients showed an 8.2-milliliter decrease in end systolic volume -- the lowest volume of blood in the heart during the pumping cycle. (iflscience.com)
Risk factors3
Hospitalization1
Outcomes1
  • As such, the latest KDIGO (Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes) CKD guideline from 2012 recommends that patients with CKD be risk classified according to both estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and albuminuria. (medscape.com)