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Heart Valve Disease: The Silent Heart Disease

Taleb Adam

Heart Valve Disease: The Silent Heart Disease

Our heart is a tireless organ that works tirelessly to ensure blood circulation throughout the body. In this process, heart valves play a crucial role, as they act as “gates” that regulate...

New Era in the Treatment of Aortic Stenosis: What is TAVI?

Papaioannou George

New Era in the Treatment of Aortic Stenosis: What is TAVI?

Theaortic valve is the formation that normally allows the smooth passage of oxygenated blood from the heart to the circulation of the whole body. Normally, this passage occurs effortlessly with the co...

Pioneering and innovation in Endoscopic Cardiac Surgery

Panos Aristotle

Pioneering and innovation in Endoscopic Cardiac Surgery

Cardiac surgery has evolved dramatically in recent decades, following the progress of technology and the need for less traumatic procedures. One of the most innovative methods that has been developed ...

Bisdas Theodosios

Varicose Veins & Venous Insufficiency

Varicose veins and venous insufficiency are two of the most common venous problems affecting a large percentage of the population. Although they are often seen as just an aesthetic nuisance, the reali...

Avgerinos Efthimios

Venous Insufficiency and Varicose Veins

Are venous insufficiency and varicose veins just a matter of aesthetics? Venous insufficiency (“phlebitis”) is not just “unsightly varicose veins” as some (even health professi...

Modern treatment of persistent arterial hypertension: Intravascular denervation of the kidneys

High blood pressure is one of the most important risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, such as myocardial infarction, stroke, heart failure and renal dysfunction. Despite great progress in drug th...

Factors that increase the likelihood of future hypertension

Eleftheriou Angeliki

Factors that increase the likelihood of future hypertension

High blood pressure (known as hypertension) is one of the main predisposing factors for the development of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular events. Hypertension is defined in the literature as an in...

Endoscopic Bypass without sternotomy

Endoscopic Bypass without Sternotomy The next day in Cardiac Surgery at Athens Medical Center Coronary artery disease, i.e. the narrowing or blockage of the vessels that supply blood to the heart, rem...