Cardiology Open Access Journals

Cardiology is a branch of internal medicine and a medical specialty concerned with disorders of the heart. It deals with the diagnosis and treatment of such conditions as electrophysiology, congenital heart defects, heart failure, coronary artery disease and valvular heart disease. Subspecialties of the cardiology field include interventional cardiology, cardiac electrophysiology, echocardiography and nuclear cardiology. Broad range categories of disorders in the field of cardiology include disorders of the myocardium, cardiac arrest, or the muscle of the heart, which include varieties of cardiomyopathy; disorders of the pericardium, or the outer lining of the heart, which include types of pericarditis; disorders of the heart valves, including the mitral valve, the aortic valve, the tricuspid valve and the pulmonary valve; congenital heart defects, which range from atrial septal defect to ventricular septal defect; diseases of the blood vessels, or vascular diseases, which includes varicose veins, deep vein thrombosis, vasculitis, aneurysm and diseases of other blood vessels.