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| A physician who is a specialist in your hear. They are trained in finding, treating and preventing disease in your heart and blood vessels |
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| A physician who is a specialist in pulmonary (lungs) condition or disease |
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| A physician who specializes in blood and blood forming organs and blood disease |
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| excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body |
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| is a routine part of every doctor's examination of the eye |
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| “water on the lungs,” is the build-up of excess fluid between the layers of the pleura outside the lungs |
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| is caused by a shortage of the element iron in your body. Your bone marrow needs iron to make hemoglobin. Without adequate iron, your body can't produce enough hemoglobin for red blood cells. |
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| is a test that checks for problems with the electrical activity of your heart. An EKG shows the heart's electrical activity as line tracings on paper. The spikes and dips in the tracings are called waves. The heart is a muscular pump made up of four chambers |
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| is a blood test used to evaluate your overall health and detect a wide range of disorders, including anemia, infection and leukemia. A complete blood count test measures several components and features of your blood, including: Red blood cells, which carry oxygen. |
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| is a quivering or irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia) that can lead to blood clots, stroke, heart failure and other heart-related complications. Some people refer to AF as a quivering heart |
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| is a condition where the heart muscle is abnormal. |
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| occurs when your heart muscle becomes weakened. It can result from a heart attack or coronary artery disease. In coronary artery disease, the arteries that supply blood to your heart muscle become narrowed |
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| In radiology, the silhouette sign refers to the loss of normal borders between thoracic structures. It is usually caused by an intrathoracic radiopaque mass that touches the border of the heart or aorta. |
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| the identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of the symptoms. |
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| "when necessary"for an occasion that has arisen, as circumstances require, as needed). |
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