Cardiology is a field of internal medicine concerned with prevention and treatment of diseases of the heart and blood vessels. Heart and blood vessels diseases are: heart myocardial infarction, angina pectoris, cardiomyopathy, hypertension (high blood pressure), endocarditis, preikarditis, rheumatic fever, congenital heart disease (congenital and acquired), heart failure, aortic stenosis, aortic insufficiency, tricuspid stenosis, tricuspid failure, myocarditis, pulmonary embolism, heart rhythm disturbances, aortic diseases, diseases of blood vessels (atherosclerosis, thrombosis, thrombophlebitis). Dynamic Medic Polyclinic, its staff and its modern equipment can fully provide all the necessary diagnostic and therapeutic procedures of modern cardiology as well as to provide consultative examinations from other areas of medicine. Reviews of our cardiologists include basic clinical cardiological examination with detailed medical history, and, if necessary: an ultrasound of the heart, 24-h Holter ECG, Holter blood pressure and physical load test, followed by the diagnosis, determine the proper treatment and advice to patients further medical treatment. Ultrasound of the heart belongs to the modern diagnostic methods that are unavoidable in modern cardiology. The most common indications for this review are: - High blood pressure and changes in heart - Heart defects - Coronary heart disease and conditions after acute myocardial infarction - Heart rhythm disturbances - Conditions under which the deterioration of cardiac function - Inflammation of the heart muscle and heart tissues - Increased pressure in the pulmonary artery - Suspicion of an aneurysm of thoracic aorta
24-h Holter ECG monitoring is a diagnostic imaging method,and is much more likely to detect abnormal heart rhythm disturbances in comparison to standard ECG registration which takes less than one minute.
24-h Holter ECG monitoring is primarily used for:
- Detection and classification of cardiac arrhythmias -Differential diagnosis, if the number of possible reasons of sensations such as palpitations, dizziness, brief loss of consciousness -In patients with atrial fibrillation or atrial transient arrhythmias that occur during the night. -After myocardial infarction, or heart muscle disease may be a number of heart rhythm disorders that may go unnoticed, and because their detection requires the use of Holter ECG -Before and after the introduction of a new drug in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. -Control of the pacemaker. - Selection and discover unclear cardiac disorders among athletes. Holter blood pressure is a device that the patient carries with him and that within 24 hours regularly measure and record blood pressure. Used:
- In patients with varying blood pressure
-With suspected nocturnal hypertension
-To discover the patient not responding to a given therapy -In patients with head and jump in blood pressure
