Cardiophile Common

Cardiology information for common man

Category Archives: Acronyms

IRBBB

IRBBB: Incomplete right bundle branch block

AICD

AICD: automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator (now called just ICD or implantable cardioverter defibrillator

PTMC

PTMC: percutaneous transmitral commissurotomy (same as BMV)

BMV

BMV: balloon mitral valvotomy (same as PTMC)

ICD

ICD: Implantable cardioverter defibrillator