Diagnostic and Treatment Procedures of the Cardiovascular System

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Diagnostic and Treatment Procedures of the
Cardiovascular System

• Medical Terminology

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Diagnostic Procedures

• Blood tests
• Blood oxygen levels
• Angiography
• Angiocardiography
• Cardiac catheterization
• Phlebography

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Electrocardiography

• Electrocardiography
• Holter moniter
• Stress tests
• Thallium stress test

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Ultrasonic Diagnostic Procedures

• Echocardiography
• Transesophageal echocardiography

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Treatment Procedures

• Medications
• Clearing blocked arteries
• Artery bypasses
• Heart
• Blood vessels, etc.

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Medications

• Antihypertensive
• ACE inhibitors
• Beta-blockers
• Calcium channel blockers
• Diuretics
• Statins
• Digoxin

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Medications

• Nitroglycerin
• Anticoagulants
• Antiarrhythmic
• Tissue plasminogen activator
• Vasoconstrictor
• Vasodilator

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Clearing Blocked Arteries

• Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty
• Stent
• Athrectomy
• Endarterectomy
• Carotid endarterectomy

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Artery Bypasses

• Coronary artery bypass graft
• Minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass

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Heart

• Defibrillation
• Valvoplasty
• Pacemaker
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation

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Blood Vessels, etc.

• Aneurysmectomy
• Aneurysmorrhaphy
• Arteriectomy
• Hemostasis
• Plasmapheresis
• Transfusion