Patients
treated by cardiologists received more testing, procedures and medication within 100 days of their ER discharge and had the best health outcomes.
Not exact matches
If confirmed
by larger trials, the finding could lead to a diagnostic test that will help
cardiologists identify and
treat high - risk patients.
Women with heart failure after cancer treatment were more likely to be
treated with standard medications if seen
by a
cardiologist compared with those who did not see a
cardiologist.
Classic
cardiologists used to help people handle the symptoms
by treating it like a chronic illness.
Heartworm disease is generally diagnosed and
treated by a veterinary
cardiologist through the course of an exam that includes an echocardiogram.
According to veterinary
cardiologists at Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, the primary goals of
treating congestive heart failure (caused
by mitral insufficiency) are to reduce the buildup of fluid and to increase the amount of blood being pumped
by the heart to the lungs and the rest of the body.
The suit, filed in 2010, alleged that the hospital and her
cardiologist deviated from the accepted standards of care
by not following up about an appointment for a corrective surgery in early 2005, which could have
treated the congenital abnormality and prevented the stroke.