Cardiology

About Cardiology

What is Cardiology?

Cariology is the branch of medicine dealing with cardiac and cardiovascular diseases (illnesses of the heart and parts of the circulatory system). A Cardiologist is a doctor that treats heart related conditions. Interventional Cardiology is the branch of cardiology that deals with actuate conditions such as heart attacks.

Why is a Healthy Heart so Important?

Heart disease, commonly known as the silent killer and ranks as the NUMBER ONE cause of death world-wide amongst men and women.

Heart disease can often go unnoticed, leading to potentially fatal acute conditions such a heart attack. 17.9 Million people die of heart disease world-wide every year according the latest WHO statistics.

Early detection of heart disease is key in living a healthy and lengthy life and so it is of vital importance to heave your heart checked on a regular basis.

AZHD’s Cardiology Department offers the following range of services

Outpatient Services

Emergency Services & Heart Attack Center

Emergency service for heart conditions including heart attack, heart failure and life-threatening heart rhythm disturbance is available round the clock with state-of-the art Cardiac Intensive Care Unit.
Al Zahra Hospital Dubai is one of two private hospitals in the UAE to have a Joint Commission International Accredited Heart Attack Center. For our patients, this means that we have one of the safest and most effective environments world-wide to save the lives of those experiencing AMI (Acute Myocardial Infractions – Heart Attacks). From the procedures, to the equipment and expertise of our Interventional Cardiologists, we provide you with the best internationally accredited cardiology services.

Non-Invasive Lab Services

Invasive Cath-Lab services

Central Nervous System

Open visitation with only two visitors in a room at any given time. No one under 12 years of age may.

Allergic Disorders

Open visitation with only two visitors in a room at any given time. No one under 12 years of age may.

Neoplastic Disorders

Open visitation with only two visitors in a room at any given time. No one under 12 years of age may.

For endocrine problems

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For the respiratory system

For the ear, nose and oropharynx

For the respiratory system

Chest CT Scan

Although pulmonary medicine only began to evolve as a medical specialty in the 1950s, William Welch and William Osler founded the ‘parent’ organization of the American Thoracic Society

One of the first major discoveries relevant to the field of pulmonology was the discovery of pulmonary circulation. Originally, it was thought that blood reaching the right side of the heart passed through small ‘pores’ in the septum into the left side to be oxygenated, as theorized by Galen; however, the discovery of pulmonary circulation disproves this theory, which had previously been accepted since the 2nd century. Thirteenth century anatomist and physiologist Ibn Al-Nafis accurately theorized that there was no ‘direct’ passage between the two sides.