UHI as you know it today, started as a simple cardiac clinic at Mulago Hospital in 1958. This journey began when we transitioned from a clinic to a fully-fledged facility i.e Uganda Heart Institute (UHI).
An electrocardiogram (ECG) is one of the simplest and fastest tests used to evaluate the heart..
Doctors use echocardiograms to help them diagnose heart problems, such as damaged cardiac tissue...
The Holter monitor is a type of portable electrocardiogram (ECG). It records the electrical activity of the heart ...
Heart problems are easier to diagnose when your heart is working hard and beating fast...
This is a test to assess heart function under physical stress. It uses ultrasound waves...
Diagnostic cardiac catheterization plays a pivotal role in the evaluation of patients with known heart disease.
Using a practical, case-based presentation, Pediatric Diagnostic Medicine helps you ...
A cardiac catheterization or “heart cath” is a minimally invasive procedure which allows the doctor to look ...
PCI refers to a family of minimally invasive procedures used to open clogged coronary arteries...
If your arrhythmia is serious, you may need a cardiac pacemaker or an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD).
A pacemaker insertion is the implantation of a small electronic device that is usually placed in the chest..
A balloon valvotomy is a minimally invasive procedure. A doctor uses a thin flexible tube (catheter)...
Balloon valvuloplasty aims to fix the pulmonary valve. The procedure uses a long, thin tube called a catheter.
VSDs are considered eligible for transcatheter device closure in the presence of one or more...
Transcatheter closure is a widespread technique used to treat secundum atrial septal defects (ASDs).
Peripheral vascular intervention is a minimally invasive outpatient (same day) procedure used to treat...
A transcatheter PDA closure is a minimally-invasive (non-surgical) procedure to close...
Pediatric cardiac surgery is a dynamic, fast-moving field. Busy practitioners, like you, need clear...
Tetralogy of Fallot must be repaired with open-heart surgery, either soon after birth or later in infancy.
When doctors are deciding whether adult cardiac surgery is necessary, they will weigh the risks and benefit...
Tricuspid valve repair using an annuloplasty ring is the preferred surgical approach for tricuspid...
Endovascular stent graft placement across abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA)
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