Cardiology (from Greek καρδίᾱ, kardiā, "heart"; and -λογία, -logia) is a medical specialty dealing with disorders of the heart be it human or animal. 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. Physicians who specialize in cardiac surgery are called cardiac surgeons.

 

WOEST results guide antithrombotic therapy in PCI

SNOWMASS, COLO. – A recent randomized trial provides physicians with important new guidance on how to manage antithrombotic therapy in patients requiring oral anticoagulation who develop an acute...

Field of Interest: Cardiology
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CoreValve holds size advantage for U.S. TAVR

When the Food and Drug Administration in January granted marketing approval to a second transcatheter aortic valve replacement system for inoperable patients with aortic stenosis, the CoreValve...

Field of Interest: Cardiology
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‘JNC 8’ guideline follows convoluted endgame

UPDATED Jan. 4, 2014 The federally funded program to produce a set of U.S. guidelines for hypertension management, a process more than 5 years in the making, came to an unusual end on...

Field of Interest: Cardiology
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Genotyping adds little to optimized warfarin dosing

DALLAS – Genotyping to guide the starting dosage of warfarin treatment showed no added value above tailoring treatment with a panel of clinical features in a randomized, controlled U.S. trial of more...

Field of Interest: Cardiology
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Opportunities to boost cardiovascular disease awareness

DALLAS – A mere 28% of 1,013 surveyed New York–area women correctly identified cardiovascular disease as the No. 1 killer of women. And two-thirds of those women said their primary care provider is...

Field of Interest: Cardiology
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Mild coronary artery disease is gender blind

CHICAGO – Men and women may not really be all that different when it comes to mild coronary artery disease. A prospective, multinational registry analysis found that 1.2% of women and 1.1% of men...

Field of Interest: Cardiology
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Antipsychotics boosted CVD events in elderly

DALLAS – Elderly patients who started treatment with an antipsychotic drug had a substantially increased risk for a major adverse cardiovascular disease event, especially during the first month on...

Field of Interest: Cardiology
Type: News Item

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