Resources
Find out about cardiovascular conditions, investigations, procedures and drugs. This section provides easy-to-understand explanations of the most common cardiac problems. You will also find descriptions of cardiology tests, treatment procedures and medication.
Conditions
- Angina
- Atrial fibrillation
- Cardiovascular disease
- Congenital heart disease
- Coronary artery disease
- Endocarditis
- Heart attack
- Heart block
- Heart failure
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypercholesterolaemia
- Hypertension
- Hypotension
- Chest pain
- Infective endocarditis
- Irregular heart beat
- Ischaemic heart disease
- Low blood pressure
- Myocardial infarction
- Palpitations
- Pericarditis
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Supraventricular tachycardia
- WPW syndrome (ventricular preexcitation, accessory pathway)
Procedures
- 24-hour blood pressure monitor
- 24-hour ECG monitor, Holter
- AVR - aortic valve replacement
- CABG - coronary artery bypass grafting
- Catheter ablation
- Coronary angiogram
- ECG - 12-lead electrocardiogram
- Echo - transthoracic echocardiogram
- ETT - exercise tolerance test
- Heart transplant
- ICD - implantable cardioverter defibrillator
- ILR - implantable loop recorder
- Pacemaker implantation
- PCI - coronary angioplasty
- Stent, drug-eluting stent
- TOE - transoesophageal echo