Cardiovascular Common Words/Terms For Medical Transcriptionists
amaurosis fugax
aneurysm
angina pectoris
angiocardiography
angiogram
angioplasty
anterolateral
aorta
aortic septal defect
aortic stenosis
arrhythmia
arteriosclerosis
ASD = atrial septal defect
asystole
atherosclerosis
atrial tachycardia
atrioventricular nodal tachycardia
atrioventricular node
AV block = atrioventricular block
AV nodal reentry tachycardia
beta blocker
bifascicular block
bradycardia
Bruce protocol
bruit
bundle branch block
bundle of His
calcium channel blocker
cardiac arrest
cardiac catheterization
cardiac enzymes
Cardiolite
cardiomegaly
cardioversion
carotid bruit
CK = creatine kinase
claudication
click
coarctation of the aorta
congenital heart disease
congestive heart failure or CHF
coronary angioplasty
coronary arteries
coronary artery bypass graft or CABG (sounds “cabbage”)
coronary artery disease or CAD
coronary bypass surgery
coronary steal syndrome
CPK = creatine phosphokinase
CPK-MB = creatine phosphokinase of muscle band
crescendo-decrescendo
diastole
diastolic murmur
digitalis
digoxin
dobutamine stress echocardiography
Doppler ultrasound flowmeter
downward sloping
ECG = electrocardiogram
echocardiography
ejection murmur
electrocardiogram
electrocardiography
emboli
embolus
endocarditis
endocardium
fibrillation
flutter
fusion beats
gallium scan
gallop
global hypokinesis
heave
hemiblock
holosystolic murmur
Holter monitor
infarction
inferior lead
interatrial septum
interval
interventricular septum
ischemia
LBBB = left bundle branch block
LVH = left ventricular hypertrophy
MB fraction
MI = mitral insufficiency
MI = myocardial infarction
mitral regurgitation
mitral stenosis
mitral valve
mitral valve prolapse
Mobitz type I heart block
Mobitz type II heart block
multivessel
murmur
myocardium
narrow complex tachycardia
necrosis
nitro paste = nitroglycerin paste
nitroglycerin
NSR (normal sinus rhythm)
PAC = premature atrial contraction
P-R interval
pacemaker
palpitations
PDA or patent ductus arteriosus
pericardial tamponade
pericarditis
pericarditis-myocarditis syndrome
pericardium
Persantine stress test
Persantine thallium stress test
phlebitis
phlebotomy
porcine prosthetic valve
precordium
prosthetic click
PSVT = paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia
PTCA = percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty
PVC = premature ventricular contraction
Q wave
QRS alternans
QRS changes
QRS complex
QRS complex tachycardia
QRS interval
QRS vector
QRS-ST junction
QRS-T changes
QRST interval
Q-T interval
quadrigeminy
R wave
Raynaud phenomenon
RBBB = right bundle branch block
regurgitation
rheumatic heart disease
right ventricular hypertrophy or RVH
ROMI = rule out myocardial infarction
rub
septal defect
septum
sestamibi
sestamibi stress test
sick sinus syndrome
sinoatrial node
sinus bradycardia
situs solitus
ST depression
ST elevation
ST segment
ST segment depression
ST segment elevation
steal syndrome
ST-T wave
supraventricular tachycardia or SVT
systole
systolic ejection murmur
systolic whoop
T wave
tachybrady
tachycardia-bradycardia syndrome or tachy-brady syndrome
tachydysrhythmia
TEE (transesophageal echocardiography)
tetralogy of Fallot
thallium stress test
thrill
thrombolytic therapy
t-PA or tissue plasminogen activator
transesophageal echocardiography or TEE
treadmill stress test
tricuspid regurgitation
tricuspid valve
troponin I
troponin T
valvuloplasty
Vas-Cath
vascular insult
vasoconstriction
vegetation
vena cava
Wenckebach
white-coat hypertension
wide complex tachycardia
WPW (Wolff-Parkinson-White) syndrome
