Heart Disease Mitral valve disease is the commonest form of chronic rheumatic valve disease, the valve being affected m about 85 per cent of cases. The affected valve may be either stenosed offering obstruction to the flow of blood from the left atrium to the left ventricle or the valve may be incompetent resulting in […]
Valvular Heart Disease and Its Prognosis | Medical Science
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Syndrome of Angina Pectoris and Its Treatment | Medical Science
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Angina pectoris is a clinical manifestation of inadequate coronary blood supply which in the past was given many names, e.g. angina of effort, decubitus angina, nocturnal angina, intractable angina, Prinzmetal angina etc. but it is now proposed that if the angina is due to coronary vasospasm it should be called primary but if it is […]
Ischaemic Heart Disease and Its Clinical Syndrome | Medical Science
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Ischaemic heart disease (I.H.D.) is a syndrome caused by inadequate blood supply to the heart muscles chiefly due to coronary artery disease (spasm or occlusion of the coronary arteries). Occlusion of coronary vessels may be commonly due to atherosclerosis but also may be caused by local thrombosis or embolism, syphilitic narrowing of coronary ostium, collagen […]
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