All About Heart And Blood Vessels

Percutaneous Percutaneous: Through the skin

Pancarditis Pancarditis: Inflammation of all the layers of the heart – pericardium, myocardium and endocardium

Pacemaker Pacemaker: Cardiac pacemaker is a device meant to give regular electrical pulses to the heart when the normal pacemaker function of the heart is defective.

Ostium Ostium: Opening, usually of a blood vessel.

Myocardium Myocardium: The middle, muscular layer of the heart

Myocarditis Myocarditis: Inflammation of the myocardium

Interstitial space Interstitial space: Space between the cells.

Intercostal Intercostal: Between the ribs

Inferior vena cava Inferior vena cava: One of the largest veins of the body, draining blood from the lower part of the body to the right atrium.

WPW syndrome WPW syndrome: Wolf Parkinson White (WPW) syndrome is due to an accessory atrioventricular pathway which bypasses the normal atrioventricular (AV) nodal delay. ECG manifests a short