The term Cor Pulmonale was introduced by Stuart Harris (1952), Chronic Pulmonary Heart Disease (CPHD) or chronic cor pulmonale; is characterised by hypertrophy of the right ventricle, due to hypertension in the pulmonary circuit caused by chronic lung disease or pulmonary vascular pathology. But CPHD does not include cardiac damage due to pulmonary hypertension of mitral stenosis or congenital heart [...]
Heart Disease Mitral valve disease is the commonest form of chronic rheumatic valve disease, the valve being affected m about 85 per cent of cases. The affected valve may be either stenosed offering obstruction to the flow of blood from the left atrium to the left ventricle or the valve may be incompetent resulting in regurgitation of blood from the [...]
Ischaemic heart disease (I.H.D.) is a syndrome caused by inadequate blood supply to the heart muscles chiefly due to coronary artery disease (spasm or occlusion of the coronary arteries). Occlusion of coronary vessels may be commonly due to atherosclerosis but also may be caused by local thrombosis or embolism, syphilitic narrowing of coronary ostium, collagen disease or arteritis. The following [...]