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Cardiology: a branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the heart as well as parts of the circulatory system. The field includes medical diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart disease and electrophysiology. Although the cardiovascular system is inextricably linked to blood, cardiology is relatively unconcerned with hematology and its diseases. Some obvious exceptions that affect the function of the heart would be blood tests (electrolyte disturbances, troponins), decreased oxygen carrying capacity (anemia, hypovolemic shock), and coagulopathies.
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OCT 04, 2017Microbiology
Statins are widely used to help treat cardiovascular disease - they work by inhibiting the production of cholesterol. Ne ...Written By: Kerry EvansOCT 03, 2017Cardiology
We’ve all heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and scientists involved in a new study would ...Written By: Kara MarkerOCT 02, 2017Health & Medicine
One drug, LCZ696, is a physician’s first choice to treat chronic heart failure. But now researchers have reason to ...Written By: Kara MarkerOCT 02, 2017Clinical & Molecular DX
Instead of the usual hour-long wait for routine lab results, a new blood test could allow doctors to diagnose a heart at ...SEP 30, 2017Cardiology
There’s new evidence that sweating it in the sauna could be good for the heart. A new study from the University of ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 27, 2017Cardiology
As far as regenerating damaged heart tissue, zebrafish have it all figured out. With heart disease being the leading cau ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 26, 2017Health & Medicine
Following a heart attack, healthy heart muscle cells, called cardiomyocytes, die and transform into scar tissue cells, c ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 25, 2017Cardiology
You don’t have to be a marathon runner to reap the benefits of exercise. Even the lightest forms of physical activ ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 22, 2017Cardiology
Why can’t humans regrow their organs like some organisms can? It certainly would help repair some of the damage do ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 20, 2017Neuroscience
Specialized immune cells called neutrophils are the first responders to invading pathogens, releasing toxic chemicals an ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 19, 2017Cardiology
There’s a long-lasting myth that tongue swallowing during cardiac arrest can lead to suffocation and that it is th ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 18, 2017Cardiology
A congenital heart defect that used to be a death sentence is now treatable thanks to an approach based on “Fontan ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 15, 2017Cardiology
Sepsis is the tenth most common cause of death in the United States, but most of those deaths aren’t directly due ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 13, 2017Cardiology
Believe it or not, a “hole in the heart” from a condition called patent foramen ovale (PFO) is mostly harmle ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 12, 2017Cardiology
The effects of preeclampsia appear to have an impact only during pregnancy and childbirth, but the condition actually af ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 12, 2017Clinical & Molecular DX
Still think e-cigarettes are harmless? Think again. The latest research into e-cigarettes say the nicotine in these smok ...SEP 11, 2017Cardiology
With more frequent observation of the fetal heartbeat during pregnancy made possible by easy-to-use home monitoring, sci ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 08, 2017Health & Medicine
More than half of all heart attack patients die within five years of the event. This is a frightening statistic, but Uni ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 07, 2017Cardiology
A lot of things go wrong during sepsis, but one of the worst is heart complications. In the past researchers determined ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 06, 2017Cardiology
A complex electrical environment is responsible for the human heart beat, and it’s prone to errors. Historically, ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 05, 2017Cardiology
There are two sides to heart disease, literally corresponding to the two sides of the heart, left and right. There are d ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 02, 2017Immunology
If you have an autoimmune disease, your risk of heart disease automatically goes up. From the Hospital del Mar Medical R ...Written By: Kara MarkerAUG 31, 2017Cardiology
Prescribing drugs that lower “bad” cholesterol is a common approach to treating heart disease, but scientist ...Written By: Kara MarkerAUG 30, 2017Cardiology
Blood vessels are the roads and highways of the cardiovascular system, carrying oxygenated blood cells, nutrients, and i ...Written By: Kara Marker
OCT 04, 2017
Microbiology
Statins are widely used to help treat cardiovascular disease - they work by inhibiting the production of cholesterol. Ne
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
OCT 03, 2017
Cardiology
We’ve all heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and scientists involved in a new study would
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 02, 2017
Health & Medicine
One drug, LCZ696, is a physician’s first choice to treat chronic heart failure. But now researchers have reason to
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 02, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
Instead of the usual hour-long wait for routine lab results, a new blood test could allow doctors to diagnose a heart at
...
SEP 30, 2017
Cardiology
There’s new evidence that sweating it in the sauna could be good for the heart. A new study from the University of
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 27, 2017
Cardiology
As far as regenerating damaged heart tissue, zebrafish have it all figured out. With heart disease being the leading cau
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 26, 2017
Health & Medicine
Following a heart attack, healthy heart muscle cells, called cardiomyocytes, die and transform into scar tissue cells, c
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 25, 2017
Cardiology
You don’t have to be a marathon runner to reap the benefits of exercise. Even the lightest forms of physical activ
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 22, 2017
Cardiology
Why can’t humans regrow their organs like some organisms can? It certainly would help repair some of the damage do
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 20, 2017
Neuroscience
Specialized immune cells called neutrophils are the first responders to invading pathogens, releasing toxic chemicals an
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 19, 2017
Cardiology
There’s a long-lasting myth that tongue swallowing during cardiac arrest can lead to suffocation and that it is th
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 18, 2017
Cardiology
A congenital heart defect that used to be a death sentence is now treatable thanks to an approach based on “Fontan
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 15, 2017
Cardiology
Sepsis is the tenth most common cause of death in the United States, but most of those deaths aren’t directly due
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 13, 2017
Cardiology
Believe it or not, a “hole in the heart” from a condition called patent foramen ovale (PFO) is mostly harmle
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 12, 2017
Cardiology
The effects of preeclampsia appear to have an impact only during pregnancy and childbirth, but the condition actually af
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 12, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
Still think e-cigarettes are harmless? Think again. The latest research into e-cigarettes say the nicotine in these smok
...
SEP 11, 2017
Cardiology
With more frequent observation of the fetal heartbeat during pregnancy made possible by easy-to-use home monitoring, sci
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 08, 2017
Health & Medicine
More than half of all heart attack patients die within five years of the event. This is a frightening statistic, but Uni
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 07, 2017
Cardiology
A lot of things go wrong during sepsis, but one of the worst is heart complications. In the past researchers determined
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 06, 2017
Cardiology
A complex electrical environment is responsible for the human heart beat, and it’s prone to errors. Historically,
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 05, 2017
Cardiology
There are two sides to heart disease, literally corresponding to the two sides of the heart, left and right. There are d
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 02, 2017
Immunology
If you have an autoimmune disease, your risk of heart disease automatically goes up. From the Hospital del Mar Medical R
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 31, 2017
Cardiology
Prescribing drugs that lower “bad” cholesterol is a common approach to treating heart disease, but scientist
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 30, 2017
Cardiology
Blood vessels are the roads and highways of the cardiovascular system, carrying oxygenated blood cells, nutrients, and i
...
Written By:
Kara Marker