Cardiology is a medical field which deals with diseases and conditions of the heart. The term comes from the Greek word translated as kardia, which means heart or inner self. Physicians who are experts in this area of medicine are called cardiologists. The specialty includes diagnosis and management of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart failure, electro-physiology and valvular heart disease.
Cardiologists and cardiac surgeons are two different types of doctors. Cardiac surgeons are physicians who preform heart surgery through sternotomy, in which the patient’s chest is opened for operative procedures on the heart and/or great vessels.

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