A few key questions about seeing a cardiologist

   Cardiology, also known as cardiovascular medicine, is a major department of internal medicine, which is generally equipped with hospitals above a certain size, and its importance can be seen. Clinical cardiology mainly treats two major categories of common diseases: heart-related diseases and hypertensive diseases.  First, the examination, including outpatient and inpatient.  1.Electrocardiogram: something familiar to the general public, mainly to check the basic condition of the heart, including the presence of arrhythmias, myocardial ischemia, myocardial infarction, etc. Although the test is small, it can reflect many problems.  2, dynamic electrocardiogram: the main role and electrocardiogram similar, different from the electrocardiogram, 24 hours are recorded, can reflect a lot of electrocardiogram does not respond to the problem, after all, the electrocardiogram only recorded 10 seconds of data.  3.Heart ultrasound: It mainly reflects the heart structure and myocardial function, and can help diagnose valve disease, valve infection and cardiac insufficiency.  4.Plate exercise: through running induced myocardial ischemia, to achieve the purpose of diagnosis, because it has certain risks, patients need to be careful when choosing. The amount of this option is also limited in general hospitals.  5.Vascular ultrasound: It can check the intima-media condition of large blood vessels throughout the body, assist in determining the status of blood vessels, such as the presence of vascular sclerosis and plaque formation, and provide information for the long-term conditioning treatment of heart disease and hypertension. However, its value is relatively limited.  6.Lipid glucose test: high lipid and high glucose are the accomplices of cardiovascular diseases, so this test can be done regularly to provide a lot of valuable information for treatment, especially for long-term conditioning.  7, myocardial enzyme test: clinical mainly used to exclude myocardial infarction, now doctors say myocardial enzyme refers to myocardial markers, because of its specificity called the previous traditional myocardial enzyme high, is widely used by the clinic. This test is relatively expensive, about 300 yuan, when necessary to check, the clinical and electrocardiogram is basically excluded from the infarction, if there is no special need, this test can be exempted.  Then we will talk about various basic drugs.  1, antihypertensive drugs: a wide variety of the same ingredients, due to different manufacturers can have many trade names, doctors may not be able to recognize all, you can pay more attention. In recent years, the mainstream of high blood pressure drugs, antihypertensive drugs in the price has become more expensive at the same time, there are indeed some very good varieties, such as Cozoa, etc., in the lowering of blood pressure at the same time can improve the structure of the heart muscle itself, so the use of more consultation with doctors, in the long run, not just short-term antihypertensive effect.  2, diuretics: diuretic and swelling, treatment of cardiac insufficiency, but also a very good antihypertensive drugs. But be aware that it may cause electrolyte disorders.  3, anti-platelet drugs: mainly to prevent and control thrombosis and protect the systemic blood vessels, aspirin, familiar to everyone, in recent years, Poliovel because of its stronger anti-platelet effect, rapidly popular, especially for post-stenting. Aspirin clinical evidence, its use after cardiovascular patients benefit extremely, so the clinical highly recommended, but pay attention to the gastric mucosa damage.  4.Lipid-lowering drugs: There are also many kinds of lipid-lowering drugs, which can stabilize vascular plaque in addition to lowering blood lipids, so do not easily make subjective judgments and refuse to use them, but consult your doctor in detail.  5, vasodilators: new Adamantin, reja, etc., the main become similar, are through the expansion of coronary arteries and small arteries and veins, improve the heart ischemia, reduce the load on the heart, so coronary heart patients can adhere to use.