Cardiology
Cardiology is the branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the heart and blood vessels. The human heart is a complex organ, consisting of two ventricles and two atria. Coronary arteries feed the heart the blood it needs to sustain itself.
Key Points
Important diseases of the heart:
- Acute myocardial infarction (heart attack)
- Angina
- Coronary heart disease
- Cardiac arrest
- Cardiac arrhythmias
- Cardiomyopathy
- Congenital heart defects
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Endocarditis
- Heart failure
- Ischaemic heart disease
- Myocarditis
- Rheumatic heart disease
- Valvular heart disease
Important symptoms:
Heart murmur
