Friday, March 20, 2009

Heart Specialist:

A cardiologist is a physician specialised in heart and vascular diseases. To become a cardiologist a physician needs to spend 4 years of internship in a hospital.
Cardiologists give their consultations either in town, exclusively in a hospital or alternate between their in-town practice and the hospital.

The mains reasons to consult a cardiologist are thoracic pains, breathlessness, palpitations, fainting et risk prevention of diseases and conditions such as hypertension of hypercholesterolemy.

After a complete check-up, the cardiologist has several other possibilities for further examination such as ECG, allowing him to diagnose and prescribed adequate surgical or medical treatment.

The Paediatric cardiologist is a specialist in heart and circulatory diseases in the growing and developing individual. The age of the patients varies, from the foetus to the adolescent. Paediatric cardiologists are involved not only with the prevention, the diagnosis and the non-surgical treatment of cardiac diseases, but also in counselling, instructing and supporting the children and adolescents treated for heart diseases.

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