cardiac or heart defect
1Congenital heart defect — Classification and external resources The normal structure of the heart (left) in comparison to two common locations for a ventricular septal defect (right), the most common form of congenital heart defect.[1] …
2Cardiac surgery — Intervention Two cardiac surgeons performing a cardiac surgery known as coronary artery bypass surgery. Note the use of a steel retractor to forcefully maintain the exposure of the patient s heart …
3Heart valve repair — Intervention ICD 9 CM 35.0 35.2 Heart valve repair is a surgical technique used to fix defects in …
4Cardiac ventriculography — is a medical imaging test used to determine a patient s cardiac function in the right, or more typically, left ventricle. Cardiac ventriculography involves injecting contrast media into the heart s ventricle(s) to measure the volume of blood… …
5Cardiac shunt — Cardiac shunts may be described as right to left, left to right or bidirectional, or as systemic to pulmonary or pulmonary to systemic. The direction may be controlled by left and/or right heart pressure, a biological or artificial valve, or both …
6Heart chamber — is a general term used to refer to any chambers of the mammalian heart. The heart consists of four chambers: the right and left atrium and the right and left ventricle. The top chambers are connected to the bottom chambers by valves and are… …
7Cardiac stress test — Not to be confused with Cardiac arrest. Cardiac stress test Intervention A male patient walks on a stress test treadmill to have his heart s function checked ICD 9 CM …
8Heart murmur — For the French motion picture, see Murmur of the Heart. Cardiac murmurs and other cardiac sounds Auscultogram from normal and abnormal heart sounds ICD 10 …
9heart — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. center, substance; kernel, pith, gist, core; breast; spirit, courage; sympathy, affection, understanding; nature, soul. See importance, middle, feeling, interior. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The pump in… …
10heart block — noun recurrent sudden attacks of unconsciousness caused by impaired conduction of the impulse that regulates the heartbeat • Syn: ↑Adams Stokes syndrome, ↑Stokes Adams syndrome, ↑atrioventricular block • Hypernyms: ↑cardiac arrhythmia,… …
