Internal medicine

The AS MEDICUS BIORESONANCE polyclinic, through its department of internal medicine, offers sub-specialist examinations in the following areas:

• Cardiology
• Gastroenterology
• Endocrinology
• Pulmonology
• Nephrology
• Rheumatology
• Hematology
• Allergology

Through our specialist’s examination we assess the health condition of the patient as well as the need for additional diagnostic methods: ultrasound, color Doppler, ECG, Holter pressure, Holter ECG and laboratory analysis.

CARDIOLOGY

Cardiology is a large area of ​​internal medicine, called the queen of medicine, that deals with diseases of the cardiovascular system which is consisted of the heart and blood vessels. This area is of a special importance because of high rates of cardiovascular diseases of the modern era and the information that cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in modern man. The revolution of technological development brought the greatest progress both in diagnosis and in treatment of people with cardiovascular diseases. The attitude of official medicine, in the world and in our country, is that the greatest benefit in preserving human health can be achieved by measures of primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases. That is why the focus is on the application of regular and periodical medical examinations of the adult population, especially due to the fact that in high percent major risk factors of cardiovascular diseases are for a long time without the display of symptoms and often the first clinical expression of their existence and long-term non treatment are actually serious complications that are life-threatening, such as heart attack or stroke with or without fatal outcomes. Therefore, doctors call them 'silent killers'.

THE MOST COMMON DISEASES OF THE HEART AND BLOOD VESSELS:

• Acute myocardial infarction
• Angina pectoris
• Myocarditis
• Pericarditis
• Infective endocarditis
• Arterial hypertension - high blood pressure
• Arterial hypotension - low blood pressure
• Arrhythmias - heart rhythm disorders
• Cardiomyopathy
• Pulmonary heart
• Pulmonary embolism
• Valvular abnormalities of the heart (aortic stenosis, aortic insufficiency, mitral stenosis, mitral insufficiency, mitral valve prolapse, tricuspid stenosis, tricuspid insufficiency, pulmonary stenosis, pulmonary insufficiency)
• Congenital heart defect
• Aortic diseases
• Diseases of the arteries and veins (carotid artery disease, arteriosclerosis obliterans, thrombophlebitis, phlebothrombosis, chronic venous insufficiency, varicose veins, lower leg ulcers-ulcus cruris)

Our clinic is engaged in primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases and uses modern and non-invasive diagnostic methods in cardiology.

Diagnostic methods we use:

• Standard electrocardiography (ECG),
• Transthoracic echocardiography (heart ultrasound)
• Doppler of blood vessels of the neck, extremities, abdominal aorta and renal arteries
• Dynamic Holter electrocardiography (ECG - Holter monitoring during the 24h, 48h, 72h and 7 days),
• Dynamical ambulatory monitoring of arterial blood pressure (TA) Holter recording over 24 hours

Risk factors that favor the development of cardiovascular diseases:

Potentially unchangeable:

• Genetic predisposition,
• Age (older people, but the limit increasingly moves towards younger age),
• Sex (in the reproductive period men suffer more frequently)

Potentially changeable:

• High blood pressure
• High cholesterol levels
• High blood sugar
• High level of uric acid in the blood
• Excess body weight (obesity central type)
• Physical inactivity
• Smoking
• Alcohol
• PAS
• Stress