Cardiology
Cardiology - Description
Cardiology is the medical discipline that is responsible for detecting, diagnosing, preventing and providing medical treatment for cardiovascular diseases.
What are the main cardiovascular diseases?
- Angina
- Aneurysms
- Prinzmetal's Angina
- Atherosclerosis
- Lower limb arteritis
- Cardiomyopathy: hypertrophic cardiomyopathy – dilated cardiomyopathy
- Congenital heart disease
- Inter-atrial communication
- Aortic dissection
- Endocarditis
- Pericardial effusion
- Patent foramen ovale
- Arterial hypertension – Pulmonary arterial hypertension
- Myocardial infarction
- Heart failure
- Acute limb ischaemia
- Coronary artery disease
- Diseases of heart muscle
- Diseases affecting heart valves
- Marfan syndrome
- Pericardial diseases
- Diseases affecting heart rhythm or heart conduction (rhythmology)
- Vascular diseases
- Myocarditis
- Pericarditis
- Acute rheumatic fever
- Syncope of cardiovascular origin
- Tachycardia or bradycardia
- Cardiac tamponnade
- Deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism
- Heart rhythm disturbances
- Cardiac conduction disturbances
For more information we recommend that you visit the following sites:
Belgian Cardiology League
Belgian Cardiology Society
Belgian Hypertension Committee