Category: Heart Disease FAQ
Heart Disease FAQ
High voltage can be generated in defibrillators by using voltage multipliers.
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Heart Disease FAQ
Arteries can be blocked by deposition of fatty material or a blood clot. Clots in blocked arteries can be removed by devices or medicines.
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SAM is short for systolic anterior movement. It is peculiar movement of the mitral valve seen in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy.
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BMV is short form for balloon mitral valvotomy
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High blood pressure (BP) is only one of the several risk factors for a heart attack. So it is very well possible to have a heart attack with
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HLHS is short for hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a severe form of birth defect of heart. The left sided chambers of the heart are underdeveloped in HLHS.
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Maximum heart rate predicted can be calculated with the formula 220 - age. For a 55 year old, this will come to 165 beats per minute.
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M-mode echocardiography is time-motion echocardiography, a graphical representation of movements of structures of heart along a single scan line with time.
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The waves in a normal ECG are the P wave, QRS complex and T wave.
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Any of the four heart valves can get narrowed.
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