- Settore: Medical devices
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Boston Scientific Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices used in various interventional medical specialties worldwide.
A condition in which a blocked artery prevents blood flow to the heart muscle, causing the tissue to die. Symptoms may include nausea, shortness of breath, and pain in the chest, arm, or neck. Also called myocardial infarction. It can result in cardiac arrest.
Industry:Medical devices
Another term for a heartbeat. The number of times the heart beats (completes a cardiac cycle of contraction and relaxation) in a minute. A normal heart rate typically ranges from 60 to 100 beats per minute at rest.
Industry:Medical devices
Valves within the heart that open and close automatically to control blood flow into, through, and out of the heart.
Industry:Medical devices
High blood pressure usually ranging from 140/90 mm Hg to 200/110 mm Hg.
Industry:Medical devices
A disorder of the heart muscle caused by an enlarged heart resulting from the increase in the size of muscle tissue. In some people the disease is transmitted genetically and its cause is unknown.
Industry:Medical devices
A fast heartbeat caused by abnormal impulses coming from a single area of the heart. These abnormal impulses take over the "pacemaker" function of the S-A node. The rapid heartbeat can produce symptoms of fainting, dizziness, weakness, blind spots, and potentially, unconsciousness and cardiac arrest.
Industry:Medical devices
Une procédure de diagnostic dans lequel cathéters sont passés à travers les vaisseaux sanguins pour prendre des photos des navires ou des cavités du cœur.
Industry:Medical devices
A type of supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) caused by extra electrical pathways that conduct electrical impulses faster than normal or conduct impulses in both directions. Named after Wolff, Parkinson & White. They were the first physicians to describe this SVT in 1930, but it was not officially a confirmed/documented disease until 1944.
Industry:Medical devices
