Diseases & conditions
What is hypertension?
When the force of blood pushing on your artery walls is too strong for too long, making you heart work harder.
What is BP?
Blood Pressure
What is thrombolytic?
Medications that help dissolve blood clots.
What is a bone marrow transplant?
The replacement of diseased bone-marrow cells in a patient with healthy bone-marrow cells from a donor.
What is an aniogram?
A radio-graph test that uses a contrast agent (dye) and a camera to take pictures of the blood flow in arteries or veins.
What is an aneurysm?
Localized, balloon-like dilation of a blood vessel, usually an artery.
What is BPM?
Beat Per Minute
What is antianginal?
Medication used to prevent or alleviate angina (spasmodic chest pain).
What is a cardio-version?
Procedure in which controlled electrical shocks are sent through the heart to restore normal cardiac rhythm in a patient with arrhythmia.
What is blood pressure (BP)?
The pressure is exerted by the blood on the wall of an artery or vein. Blood pressure is measured using a sphygmomanometer.
What is arrhythmia?
Irregular heartbeat.
What is MI?
Myocardial infarction
What is antiarrhythmic?
An agent used to alleviate or prevent cardiac arrhythmia. (Irregular heartbeat).
What is a pacemaker?
An electrical device that is implanted in the chest or abdomen to control abnormal cardiac rhythms through a series of electrical discharges.
What is a electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG)?
A record of the electrical activity of the heart.
What is Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)?
Disease resulting from reduced blood flow from the heart characterized by weakness, breathlessness, abdominal discomfort, and edema in the lower extremities.
What is WBC?
White Blood Cell
What is anticoagulant?
An agent used to prevent the formation of blood clots. Also known as a blood thinner.
What is a heart transplantation?
The grafting of a living heart to a patient, from a donor who was clinically brain-dead but on life support.
What is a laboratory (lab) test?
Examination of body fluids or tissues from a patient to aid in diagnosing an illness, disease, or condition. The following lab tests are commonly used to diagnose conditions of the blood.
What is cyanosis?
Bluish or purplish discoloration of the skin.
What is HR?
Heart Rate
What is anti-hypertensive?
Medication used to counteract high blood pressure.
What is a coronary artery bypass graft?
A shunt (passageway), established surgically, that allows blood to travel from the aorta to a branch of the coronary artery at a point beyond an obstruction.
What is type and cross match?
A procedure in which a sample of a donor’s blood (generally blood cells) is mixed with a sample of a recipient’s blood (typically plasma) to check for blood-type compatibility before a blood transfusion.