With busy times everybody has become very neglecting towards their health. Replacing healthy food habits with junk food, less sleep and more tension are now a part of our daily routines. But, this lifestyle also has attracted many deadly health conditions and diseases. A few of them would be respiratory disease, cardiac diseases, obesity, diabetes, blood pressure and so on and so forth. And we all would have to agree that critical cardiac condition is something that scares us all. So, there is a whole separate field that deals in with the diseases of heart and blood circulation, called cardiology. Cardiology is a field that studies the treatment of disorders of the heart and the blood vessels. And, a cardiologist is one who specialises in treating and preventing diseases related to the heart and blood vessels.
Getting to know how serious the condition could be if one isn’t attended in the right time, one must wonder about the best cardiologist in India? But, there is nothing that should worry you. Because, here I bring a list of top 10 cardiologists from all over India:
- Naresh Trehan: chairman and managing director- heart institute. Medanta The Medicity, Gurgaon
- P Seshagiri Rao: head of department- cardiology. Apollo Health City, Jubilee Hills
- Robert Mao: consultant- cardiology. Apollo Hospitals, Greams Lane
- Sanjiv Agarwal : senior consultant- interventional cardiology. Fortis Malar Hospital, Chennai
- Ashok Seth: chairman and chief- cardiology. Fortis Escorts Heart Institute , Okhla Road
- SK Gupta: senior consultant- cardiolody. Indraprasth Apollo Hospitals, Sarita Vihar
- Ashwin B Mehta: director- cardiology. Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai
- KSS Bhat: consultant- cardiology. Manipal Hospital, HAL Airport Road
- Sanjay Mehrotra: senior consultant- Cardiology. Narayana Institute of Cardiac sciences, Bommasandra
- Immmaneni Sathyamurthy: director- cardiology. Apollo Hospitals, Greams lane
Now, having known some of the best cardiac surgeon in India, lets now discuss the diseases treated by them. So given below is a list of cardiac diseases which can be taken care by them:
- Atherosclerosis
- Atrial flutter
- Aortic stenosis
- Arrhyhthmias, acquired and inherited
- Bradycardia, sick sinus syndrome and heart block
- Cardiomyopoathy, acquired and inherited
- Chest pain and angina
- Congenital heart disease
- Coronary heart disease
- Heart attacks
- Heart failure
- Heart transplant
- High blood cholesterol and triglycerides
- Hypertension
- Hypertrophic and restrictive cardiomyopathy
- Long QT syndrome
- Pacemakers and defibrillators
- Pericarditis
- Peripheral vascular disease
- Preventive cardiology and risk factor management
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Stable angina
- Supraventricular tachycardia
- Syncope and vasovagal episodes
- Ventricular assist devices
- Valvular heart disease
- Ventricular tachycardia
- Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
- Women’s heart disease
Could one have ever imagined that there would be so many diseases related to the heart? But, one can definitely prevent these diseases on a personal level by avoiding tobacco and smoking, exercising for at least 40 minutes a day, eating a well balanced diet that contains more of fibre and less of fat, use of healthy cooking oil, getting proper sleep of 7-8 hours. These are a few tips one could follow for a disease free life. Hope this article helps you know all about cardiology.