a
- Abdominal obesity
- Ablation
- Accessory pathway
- ACE
- ACE inhibitors / AT1 blockers
- Acyanotic heart defect
- Adams-Stokes seizure
- Afterload
- Allograft
- Anaesthesia
- Anaesthesia
- Anastomosis
- Aneurysm
- Aneurysm of the sinus of Valsalva
- Angina pectoris
- Angio-
- Angiocardiography
- Angiography
- Angioplasty
- Anterior wall infarction
- Anti-arrhythmics
- Anticoagulation
- Aorta
- Aortic arch
- Aortic isthmus
- Aortic regurgitation
- Aortic stenosis
- Aortic valve
- Aortic valve regurgitation
- Aortic valve stenosis
- Aorto-pulmonary shunt
- Aortopulmonary window
- Apnoea
- Apoplexy
- Arrhythmia
- Arrhythmia absoluta
- Arterial hypertension
- Arterial switch operation
- Arteriectomy
- Arteriography
- Arteriosclerosis
- Arteriotomy
- Artery
- Artificial heart
- ASD (Atrial Septal Defect)
- Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid)
- Asystole
- Atherogenic lipid profile
- Atherosclerosis
- Atrial
- Atrial fibrillation
- Atrial reversal surgery
- Atrial septal defect (ASD)
- Atrial septal defect (ASD)
- Atrial septal defect of the primum type (ASD 1)
- Atrial septal defect of the secondary type (ASD II)
- Atrial septum
- Atrioseptectomy
- Atriotomy
- Atrioventricular valves
- Atrium
- Auscultation
- Autograft
- Autologous blood donation
- Automatism
- Autonomic nervous system
- Autonomous nervous system
- AV block
- AV channel defect
- AV node (atrioventricular node)
- AV septal defect (AVSD)
- AV valves
b
- Baffle
- Balloon atrioseptostomy (BAS)
- Balloon catheter
- Balloon dilatation Balloon valvuloplasty
- Beta receptor (β-adrenoceptors)
- Beta-blockers (ß-blockers)
- Bicuspid aortic valve
- Biological heart valve
- Bioprostheses
- Biopsy
- Biventricular
- Blade atrioseptostomy
- Bland-White Garland syndrome (ALCAPA)
- Blood clot
- Blood count
- Blood pressure
- Body Mass Index (BMI)
- Bradycardia
- Branch block
- Bundle branch
- Bundle of His
- Bundle of Kent
- Bypass
- Bypass operation
c
- Calcium antagonists
- Calcium antagonists (CA antagonists)
- Capillaries
- carcinogenic
- Carcinoma
- Cardiac catheterisation
- Cardiac hypertrophy
- Cardiac output
- Cardiac resynchronisation therapy
- Cardiac rhythm disorders
- Cardiac ultrasound
- Cardiodepressant effect
- Cardiogenic shock
- Cardiomegaly
- Cardiomyopathy
- Cardioplegia
- Cardioversion
- Carditis
- Catheter ablation
- Cava
- Cava filter implantation
- Cavopulmonary anastomosis (PCPC, PCPA)
- Central venous catheter (CVC)
- Cholesterol
- Chordae
- Circulatory separation
- Clubbing
- Coarctation
- Coarctation syndrome
- Coil
- Coil embolisation
- Collaterals
- Colour Doppler
- Combined interventions
- Commissure
- Commissurotomy
- Complete AV channel
- Compliance
- Computed tomography (CT)
- Conduction system
- Conduit
- congenital
- Conotruncal defects
- Conotrunkal
- Contractility
- Contraction
- Cor triatriatum
- Coronary
- Coronary angiography
- Coronary angioplasty (PTCA)
- Coronary arteries
- Coronary circulation
- Coronary heart disease (CHD)
- Coronary sinus
- Coronary spasm
- Coronary stenosis
- Coronary syndrome, acute (ACS)
- Coronary thrombosis
- Coronary vessels
- Couplets
- Crista terminalis
- CRT
- CT
- CVC
- Cyanosis
- Cyanosis (blue babies)
- Cyanotic heart defect
d
- Dacron
- Decompensation
- Defibrillator
- Degenerate/degenerative
- Depolarisation
- Dextrocardia
- Di George syndrome
- Diabetes
- Diastole
- Diastolic
- Diastolic blood pressure
- Digitalis
- Digitalisation
- Dilatation
- Disposition
- Diuretics
- Doppler examination
- Double inlet ventricle (DIV)
- Double outlet right ventricle (DORV)
- Drainage
- Ductus Botalli
- Duplex sonography
- Dysfunction
- Dysphagia
- Dysplasia/dysplastic
- Dyspnoea
e
- Ebstein anomaly of the tricuspid valve (Ebstein's disease)
- ECLS (extracorporeal life support)
- ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation)
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- Eisenmenger's syndrome
- Ejection fraction (EF)
- Electrocardiogram (ECG)
- Electrode
- Electrolytes
- Electrophysiological examination
- Embolism
- Endocardial cushion
- Endocarditis
- Endocardium
- Endothelium
- Epicardium
- Eplenerone / spironolactone
- Ergometry
- Excitation
- Excitation conduction disorders
- Excitation development disorders
- Exercise ECG
- Exercise echocardiography
- Extracardial
- Extrasystole
f
h
- Heart attack (= myocardial infarction)
- Heart block
- Heart failure = cardiac output weakness
- Heart murmurs
- Heart rate
- Heart transplant
- Heart valve
- Heart valve defect
- Heart valve reconstruction
- Heart valve replacement
- Heart-lung machine
- Hegar pins
- Heterotaxy syndrome
- High blood pressure
- HLTx
- Homocysteine
- HTx
- Hyperlipoproteinaemia
- Hypertension
- Hypertrophic (obstructive) cardiomyopathy (HOCM)
- Hypertrophy
- Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS)
- Hypotension
- Hypotension (low blood pressure)
- Hypothermia
i
- ICD therapy
- Idiopathic
- Immunisation
- Immunity
- Immunoglobulins
- Immunosuppression
- Incision
- Infarction
- Infundibulum
- Infundibulum stenosis
- Infusion
- Injection
- Innocent heart murmur
- Insufficiency
- Insulin
- Insulin resistance
- intermediary
- Internal scintigraphy
- International Normalised Ratio (INR)
- Interrupted aortic arch
- Intervention
- Interventional cardiac catheterisation
- Intima
- Intracardial
- Intramural
- Intramuscular
- Intravenous
- Intubation
- Invasive
- Ischaemia
- ISTA
- Isthmus stenosis of the aorta (aortic coarctation)
l
m
- Magnesium
- Magnetic resonance imaging
- Maintenance dose
- Mapping
- Marcumarisation
- Marfan syndrome
- Mechanical heart valve
- Medication
- Metabolic syndrome
- Mitral defect
- Mitral regurgitation (MR)
- Mitral stenosis (MS)
- Mitral valve
- Mitral valve prolapse
- Mitral valve regurgitation (MR)
- Mitral valvuloplasty
- MRI
- Myocardial biopsy
- Myocardial infarction
- Myocardial scintigraphy
- Myocarditis
- Myocardium
n
o
p
- Pacemaker
- Pacemaker
- Palliative surgery
- Palpation
- Palpitations
- Papillary muscle
- Para-valvular
- Parenteral
- Paresis
- Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT)
- Partial AV channel (PAVSD)
- Patch
- Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA)
- Patent ductus arteriosus Botalli
- PDA
- Percutaneous
- Percutaneous transluminal valvuloplasty (PTVP)
- Perforated
- Perforation
- Perfuser
- Perfusion
- Pericardial effusion
- Pericardial tamponade
- Pericardial tamponade
- Pericarditis
- Pericardium
- Peripheral
- Peripheral cyanosis
- Peritoneum
- Persistent
- PFO
- Phlebitis
- Phlebography
- Phonocardiography/Phonocardiogram
- Physiological
- Placebo
- Plasma
- Platelet inhibitors
- Pocket valves
- Post-operative
- Post-prandial
- Post-stenotic
- Posterior
- Posterior wall infarction
- Pre-excitation
- Pre-excitation syndrome
- Precordial
- Precordium
- Predisposition
- Preload
- Premedication
- Prenatal (= foetal) echocardiography
- Preoperative
- Pressure gradient
- Prinzmetal angina
- Prognosis
- Progressive
- Prolapse
- Prolapse
- Prophylaxis
- Prostaglandin
- Prosthesis
- Protamine
- PTCA
- Pulmonary
- Pulmonary
- Pulmonary artery
- Pulmonary artery
- Pulmonary atresia
- Pulmonary circulation
- Pulmonary circulation
- Pulmonary circulation
- Pulmonary oedema
- Pulmonary valve
- Pulmonary valve regurgitation (PR)
- Pulmonary valve stenosis (PS)
- Pulmonary vascular resistance
- Pulmonary vein malpositioning
- Pulmonary veins
- Pulse oximeter
- Puncture
- Purkinje fibres
r
- Radio-isotope
- Rashkind manoeuvre
- Rashkind manoeuvre
- Rastelli procedure
- Re-entry tachycardia
- Recurrence
- Reflux
- Rejection
- Rejection reaction
- Renal denervation
- Reoperation
- Resection
- Residual gradient
- Residuals
- Resistance
- Respirator
- Respiratory arrhythmia
- Restenosis
- Restrictive cardiomyopathy
- Resuscitation
- Rheumatic fever
- Rhythm disorders
- Right heart catheter
- Right-left shunt
- Risk factors
- Riva-Rocci
- Ross procedure
- Rotablator
- Rubella embryopathy / fetopathy
- RVOT
- RVOT patch
- RVOTO
s
- Salvos
- Saphenous vein (= Vena saphena magna)
- Saturation dose
- Scimitar Syndrome
- Scintigraphy
- Sclerosis
- Scoliosis
- Screening procedure
- Secondary prevention
- Sedation
- Sedative
- Semilunar valves
- Senning procedure
- Sepsis
- Septa
- Septation
- Septectomy
- Septostomy
- Septum
- Serum
- Serum level
- Shock
- Shone syndrome
- Short-circuit connections
- Shprintzen syndrome
- Shunt
- Shunt volume
- Sick sinus syndrome
- Singular ventricle
- Sinus bradycardia
- Sinus node
- Sinus node dysfunction
- Sinus of Valsalva
- Sinus rhythm
- Sinus tachycardia
- Sinus venosus defect
- Situs inversus
- Sleep apnoea screening
- Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome
- Sodium
- Sonography
- Sounding
- Spiroergometry
- Spironolactone / eplenerone
- Staphylococci
- Stenosis
- stenotic
- Stent
- Stent implantation
- Sternotomy
- Sternum
- Stethoscope
- Stimulation
- Stimulation frequency
- Streptococci
- Stress echocardiography
- Stridor
- Stroke
- Stroke volume
- Sub-aortic
- Sub-pulmonary
- Subacute
- Subaortic stenosis
- Subclavian flap technique
- Subcostal
- Subcutaneous
- Subpulmonary stenosis
- Substitution
- Subvalvular
- Sudden cardiac death
- Sudden death
- Supravalvular
- Supraventricular arrhythmia
- Supraventricular extrasystole
- Surgery of the vessels near the heart
- Sympathetic nervous system
- Symptom
- Syncope
- Syndrome
- Systemic circulation
- Systemic circulation
- Systole
- Systolic blood pressure
t
- T3 test, T4 test, TRH test
- Tachycardia
- Tachycardia, paroxysmal
- Tachycardia, supraventricular
- Tachycardia, ventricular
- Tachypnoea
- Taussig-Bing anomaly
- Telemetry
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- TGA
- Thoracotomy
- Thorax
- Threshold
- Thrombectomy
- Thrombocytes
- Thrombolysis
- Thrombophilia
- Thrombophlebitis
- Thrombosis
- Thrombosis prophylaxis
- Thyroid diseases
- TOF
- Total cavo-pulmonary anastomosis (TCPA, TCPC)
- Trans-annular patch
- Trans-oesophageal echocardiography (TOE)
- Trans-Oesophageal Echocardiography (TOE)
- Trans-valvular
- Transatrial
- Transfusion
- Transplant
- Transplantation
- Transposed
- Transposition of the great arteries (TGA)
- Tricuspid regurgitation (TR)
- Tricuspid valve
- Tricuspid valve atresia
- Tricuspid valve defect
- Tricuspid valve stenosis
- Triglycerides
- Trisomy 18
- Trisomy 21
- Truncus Arteriosus Communis (TAC)
- tube
- Turbulence
- Turner syndrome
v
- Vagus
- Valve
- Valve defect
- Valve regurgitation
- Valve stenosis
- Valvular
- Valvuloplasty
- Valvulotomy
- Vascular
- Vascular prosthesis
- Vasoconstriction
- Vasodilatation
- Vasodilators
- Vegetation
- Veins
- Velocardiofacial syndrome
- Vena cava
- Vena cava
- Venous blood
- Ventricle
- Ventricular
- Ventricular arrhythmia
- Ventricular extrasystole
- Ventricular fibrillation
- Ventricular flutter
- Ventricular septal defect (VSD)
- Ventricular septum
- Ventricular septum defect (VSD)
- Ventricular tachycardia (VT)
- Ventriculotomy
- Viscosity
- Vitium cordi