Category: Heart Disease FAQ

Balloon mitral valvotomy is the modern treatment for mitral stenosis (narrowing): balloon at the tip a long tube is used to enlarge the narrowed valve.

Smoking and heart attack is an important association. Smokers have up to 400% greater chance of getting heart disease.

Basically there are two types of treadmills for exercise at home. They mechanical ones and electrical driven treadmills.

Opening narrowed heart valves without surgery is by dilating them with balloons introduced into the heart through blood vessels.

If the slowing of heart rate is significant enough to become dangerous, stopping of lithium and substituting it with another medication is advisable.

LAD is short for left anterior descending coronary artery, branch of left main coronary artery, which supplies blood to the front portion of left ventricle.

Absent P waves can occur in atrial stand still either as an idiopathic disorder or following extensive radiofrequency ablation in the right atrium.

Since idioventricular rhythm is not a stable rhythm, the heart rate has to be stabilized by pacemaker implantation if the rhythm is permanent.

If blood vessels contract for a prolonged period, blood supply to the region will be affected and cause pain.

If a localized region of the cardiovascular system is considered, it is possibly the heart itself which has a large collection of blood at any time