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Heart - Diseases and treatments | | Heart - Diseases and treatments: Encyclopedia II - Heart - Diseases and treatments | | The study of diseases of the heart is known as cardiology. Important diseases of the heart include:
Coronary heart disease is the lack of oxygen supply to the heart muscle; it can cause severe pain and discomfort known as Angina.
A heart attack occurs when heart muscle cells die because blood circulation to a part of the heart is interrupted.
Congestive heart failure is the gradual loss of pumping power of the heart.
Endocarditis and myocarditis are inflammations of the heart.
Cardiac arrhythmia is an irregularity in the heartbeat. It is sometimes treated by implanting an artificial pa ...
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| | | Heart: Encyclopedia II - Heart - Diseases and treatments
Heart - Diseases and treatments
The study of diseases of the heart is known as cardiology. Important diseases of the heart include:
- Coronary heart disease is the lack of oxygen supply to the heart muscle; it can cause severe pain and discomfort known as Angina.
- A heart attack occurs when heart muscle cells die because blood circulation to a part of the heart is interrupted.
- Congestive heart failure is the gradual loss of pumping power of the heart.
- Endocarditis and myocarditis are inflammations of the heart.
- Cardiac arrhythmia is an irregularity in the heartbeat. It is sometimes treated by implanting an artificial pacemaker
- Congenital heart defects.
If a coronary artery is blocked or narrowed, the problem spot can be bypassed with coronary artery bypass surgery or it can be widened with angioplasty.
Beta blockers are drugs that lower the heart rate and blood pressure and reduce the heart's oxygen requirements. Nitroglycerin and other compounds that give off nitric oxide are used to treat heart disease as they cause the dilation of coronary vessels.
At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, 53-year-old Louis Washkansky on December 3, 1967 became the first human to receive a heart transplant (however he died 18 days later from double pneumonia). The transplant team was headed by Christiaan Barnard.
See also: Cardiology diagnostic tests and procedures
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