Author: Johnson Francis

Tricuspid regurgitation is most often secondary to elevated right ventricular pressure as a consequence of increased pressure in the pulmonary artery.

Coronary angioplasty is the procedure in which small balloons attached to the tip of small tubes are used to remove the blocks in coronary arteries.

Defibrillator is a device for delivering high energy direct current electric shocks in a controlled manner to correct abnormalities in cardiac rhythm.

An electrocardiograph records the electrical activity of the heart from the surface of the body. The recorded graph is called an electrocardiogram (ECG).

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

Angiography is the procedure by which blood vessels of the body are visualised by injecting contrast or otherwise.

Endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) is a heart muscle disease (cardiomyopathy) seen in the tropical countries, in the developing world.

Cardiac catheterisation laboratory: place where angiography and inteventions are done

Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is a communication between the pulmonary artery (blood vessel carrying deoxygenated blood to the lungs) and aorta.

Two types of fibrinolytic protocols have been advised for the management of prosthetic valve thrombosis