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Cardiology
One-stop comprehensive service to patients with heart problems
Provide integrated and complete cardiovascular care
Provides a broad range of services in the diagnosis and management of heart diseases
About Cardiology
Cardiology is a branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the heart as well as parts of the circulatory system. The field includes medical diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart disease and electrophysiology. Physicians who specialize in this field of medicine are called cardiologists, a specialty of internal medicine. Pediatric cardiologists are pediatricians who specialize in cardiology. Physicians who specialize in cardiac surgery are called cardiothoracic surgeons or cardiac surgeons, a specialty of general surgery.
Although the cardiovascular system is inextricably linked to blood, cardiology is relatively unconcerned with hematology and its diseases. Some obvious exceptions that affect the function of the heart would be blood tests (electrolyte disturbances, troponins), decreased oxygen carrying capacity (anemia, hypovolemic shock), and coagulopathies.
Sub-Departments
Diseases
Non-invasive Cardiac Services
- Coronary artery disease
- Hypertension
- Lipid disorders
- Arrhythmias
- Heart Failure
- Congenital heart diseases ( ASD, VSD, PDA, Coarctation etc.)
- Valvular heart diseases
- Peripheral vascular diseases
- Venous thromboembolism
- Cardiomyopathy
- Pericardial diseases
- Cardiac tumours
- 12-Lead Electrocardiogram (ECG)
- 24-hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring
- 24 Hours Ambulatory ECG Monitoring ( Holter )
- Stress test ( Treadmill test)
- Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE)
- Transoesophageal Echocardiography (TEE)
- Exercise Stress Echocardiography (ESE)
- Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography (DSE)
- Pericardial diseases
- Cardiac tumours
Invasive Cardiac Services
- Coronary angiography
- Coronary angioplasty with stenting including Primary angioplasty.
- IVUS ( Intravascular Ultrasound ) imaging of coronary arteries
- Rotablation to treat calcific arteries during angioplasty
- Fractional flow reserve ( FFR) to assess Coronary stenosis
- Insertion of Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump
- Pericardiocentesis
- Ballon mitral valvotomy
- Electrophysiological study with/without Radiofrequency Ablation
- Endomyocardial Biopsy
- Alcohol septal ablation in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
- Preoperative embolization of nasopharyngeal angiofibroma.
- Temporary pacing
- Permanent pacemaker implantation
- Implantation of ICD ( Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator)
- Implantation of CRT ( Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy)
- Internal loop recorder implantation
- Peripheral artery and venous angioplasty with stenting.
- Bronchial artery embolization to treat hemoptysis.
- Uterine artery embolization to control postpartum hemorrhage.
- Embolization to treat GI bleeds.
- Device closure for ASD / VSD/ PDA.
- Balloon pulmonary valvotomy
- Coarctoplasty with stenting
Expert Doctors
Dr. Shantesh Kaushik
- MBBS, MS, DNB (Gen Surg.), MCh (Thor. Surg.), DNB (Cardio-thor. Surg.), MD
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