cardiology
Sign in to saveCardiology () is the study of the heart. Cardiology is a branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the heart and the cardiovascular system, and it is a sub-specialty of internal medicine. 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. Pediatric cardiologists are pediatricians who specialize in cardiology. Physicians who specialize in cardiac surgery are called cardiothoracic surgeons or cardia
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Cardiology is the medical specialty focused on studying and treating diseases of the heart and cardiovascular system, including conditions like heart defects, coronary artery disease, and heart failure. It matters because cardiologists and cardiac surgeons diagnose and treat these disorders, which affect a vital system responsible for circulating blood throughout the body.
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- Blood tests, electrophysiology study, cardiac imaging, ECG, echocardiograms, stress test
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40 sectionsContents
- Specializations
- Adult cardiology
- Cardiac electrophysiology
- Clinical cardiac electrophysiology
- Cardiogeriatrics
- Imaging
- Interventional cardiology
- Advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology
- Cardiooncology
- Preventive cardiology and cardiac rehabilitation
- Pediatric cardiology
- Adult congenital heart disease
- The heart
- Coronary circulation
- Cardiac examination
- Heart disorders
- Coronary artery disease
- Cardiomyopathy
- Cardiac arrhythmia
- Cardiac arrest
- Hypertension
- Essential vs Secondary hypertension
- Complications of hypertension
- Congenital heart defects
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Pulmonary atresia
- Double outlet right ventricle
- Transposition of great arteries
- Persistent truncus arteriosus
- Ebstein's anomaly
- Diagnostic tests in cardiology
- Trials
- Cardiology community
- Associations
- Journals
- Cardiologists
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Cardiology () is the study of the heart. Cardiology is a branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the heart and the cardiovascular system, and it is a sub-specialty of internal medicine. 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. 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.
== Specializations == All cardiologists in the branch of medicine study the disorders of the heart, but the study of adult and child heart disorders each requires different training pathways. Therefore, an adult cardiologist (often simply called "cardiologist") is inadequately trained to take care of children, and pediatric cardiologists are not trained to treat adult heart disease. Surgical aspects outside of cardiac rhythm device implant are not included in cardiology and are in the domain of cardiothoracic surgery. For example, coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) and surgical valve replacement are surgical procedures performed by surgeons, not cardiologists. Typically, a cardiologist would first identify who is in need of cardiac surgery and refer them to a cardiac surgeon for the procedure. However, an increasing number of structural interventions can be performed less invasively by cardiologists; these include coronary procedures such as cardiac catheterization and percutaneous coronary intervention; structural valve procedures such as transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVR) and MitraClip; and procedures for heart rhythm disorders such as pacemaker implantation, Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) insertion, and ablation.