Cardiovascular Archives

Three implants to mend heart: Stent, Valve and a Defibrillator

By rjoshimgims September 29, 2025Tools in Health2 Comments

Three implants for the heart have changed the outcomes of heart disease - namely stents, artificial valves, and an implantable defibrillator. Stents can now open a tiny blood vessel supplying…

Christiaan Barnard, and his heart transplants

By rjoshimgims September 28, 2025Health Professionals

Christiaan Barnard was made famous on 3rd December 1967, when he performed first human to human heart transplant in Cape Town, South Africa. He was just 45 when he performed…

How high are your blood pressure values ?

By rjoshimgims May 16, 2025Medical Diseases

About a third of all adults across the world have high blood pressure values. The numbers are steadily rising, especially in Asia, where most people of the world live. You…

Cardiac surgery: putting heart under a knife

By rjoshimgims July 14, 2024Health concepts2 Comments

Index Home In 1896 a textbook of surgery had noted that operating on a heart is impossible. Muscles of the heart are always in motion, and its chambers are always churning…

Wavy ECG gestures that make our heart to beat

By rjoshimgims July 12, 2024Health concepts, Tools in Health3 Comments

Index Home We all live, without skipping a heart-beat. These are more than 25 billion beats over a life-time. Each of these beats means that our heart muscles have had a…

Angiography: How did we start seeing our vessels

By rjoshimgims October 22, 2023Medical Diseases, Tools in Health14 Comments

Index Home While we knew for a long time, that blood travels inside conduits or vessels, we did not have much of clarity, till the middle of 16th century. It was…

Heart dominates, but does it ?

By rjoshimgims November 20, 2022Medical Diseases11 Comments

Index Home Heart has a special place amongst all organs. While brain, blood, liver, skin and kidneys all work silently - heart is loud. It is the only one to beat,…