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Occupational cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are diseases of the heart or blood vessels caused by working conditions, [1] making them a form of occupational illness. [2] These diseases include coronary heart disease, stroke, cardiomyopathy, arrhythmia, and heart valve or heart chamber problems.
The book has been described as a "widely read textbook of cardiology", [3] and a "standard reference" work. [4] According to The New York Times , Hurst's The Heart has become one of the most widely used medical textbooks in the world.
Cardiac nursing is a nursing specialty that works with patients who suffer from various conditions of the cardiovascular system.Cardiac nurses help treat conditions such as unstable angina, cardiomyopathy, coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction and cardiac dysrhythmia under the direction of a cardiologist.
He returned to UBC to work as an interventional cardiologist at St. Paul's Hospital in 1990. [7] After the world's first transcatheter aortic valve implantation was performed using an antegrade transseptal approach by Prof. Alain Cribier in 2002 at the University of Rouen, Webb developed the transapical and retrograde transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve implantation in 2006 at St. Paul's ...
Microvascular angina (MVA), previously known as cardiac syndrome X, [1] also known as coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD) or microvascular coronary disease is a type of angina (chest pain) with signs associated with decreased blood flow to heart tissue but with normal coronary arteries.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... move to sidebar hide. Help. Working conditions is included in the JEL classification codes as JEL ...
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Bernard Lown (June 7, 1921 – February 16, 2021) was a Lithuanian-American cardiologist and inventor. Lown was the original developer of the direct current defibrillator for cardiac resuscitation, and the cardioverter for correcting rapid disordered heart rhythms.