Cardiology

Do you often have chest pain around your heart? Is your breathing sometimes heavy, are you short of breath? Is your heartbeat fast, irregular? Do you sometimes feel tightness in the chest?

If you feel any of the symptoms above, you should contact a cardiologist. A cardiologist discovers cardiovascular problems, by asking questions about the family history of disease and physical examinations. If necessary, he refers the patients for further examinations. Cardiology is a medical area helping patients in case of high blood pressure, coronary disease and chest pains, arrhythmias and valvular heart disease.

The best known cardiology test is ECG.

In case of children, the second most frequent diseases after congenital heart diseases are high blood pressure and circulatory diseases. Please feel free to visit our pediatric cardiologist, parents can of course be present at the surgery, ask questions and talk through the steps of the therapy with them.

In adulthood the most common are coronary artery diseases, atherosclerosis, heart failure and abnormal heart rhythms.

Prevention of cardiovascular disease is very important because many other diseases are associated with them. For all the above reasons, it is worth participating in screening programmes, because the sooner a disease is discovered, the bigger the chances for being cured from it!