British Cardiovascular Society

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The British Cardiovascular Society (BCS) is a United Kingdom-wide health organisation based in London. It aims to represent all healthcare professionals working in the field of cardiology, set standards for prevention, diagnosis, and clinical care, and communicate those standards to the community and the patients through training, education and public outreach.

History

The first idea for the BCS came in 1910 by the Scottish cardiologist Sir James Mackenzie. At an Association of Physicians meeting in Oxford on 22 April 1922, the Cardiac Club was formed by 5 cardiologists: Carey F. Coombs, T. F. Cotton, John Cowan, A. G. Gibson (as chair), and W. E. Hume. It was founded in 1922 at the Club's first active meeting by 15 founder members — the original five plus ten others, including Thomas J. Horder and Thomas Lewis — and with one honorary member, namely Mackenzie. In April 1937 it became the Cardiac Society of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1946 it became the British Cardiac Society.

It was incorporated (03005604) on 1 January 1995 as the British Cardiac Society. It became the British Cardiovascular Society on 8 May 2006.

Function

It produces the Heart journal; this was established in 1939 as the British Heart Journal. The Editor is Catherine Otto. Another journal it produces is called Open Heart.

Structure

It is situated in Fitzrovia in the London Borough of Camden. It became a UK Registered Charity in 2002. Its membership (2,500) included doctors and nurses. It is an affiliate of the European Society of Cardiology. The current President of the Society for the 2018–2021 term is Simon Ray, Honorary Professor of Cardiology of Manchester University.

References

Cowan, John (January 1939). "Some notes on the Cardiac Club". Br Heart J. 1 (1): 97–104. doi:10.1136/hrt.1.1.97. PMC 503409. PMID 18609810.
"Companies House". Archived from the original on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
Coats, Caroline J (22 April 2022). "History of the British Cardiovascular Society". Heart. 108 (10). BMJ: 761–766. doi:10.1136/heartjnl-2021-320139. ISSN 1355-6037.
"European Society of Cardiology". Archived from the original on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
"Professor Simon Ray: President at the British Cardiovascular Society". BCS Hackathon. 7 May 2019. Archived from the original on 23 June 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2020.

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Cardiovascular disease (vessels)

Arteries, arterioles
and capillaries

Inflammation	Arteritis Aortitis Buerger's disease
Arteriosclerosis	Atherosclerosis Foam cell Fatty streak Atheroma Cholesterol LDL Oxycholesterol Trans fat Monckeberg's arteriosclerosis Hyaline arteriolosclerosis Hyperplastic arteriolosclerosis
Peripheral artery disease	Stenosis Carotid artery stenosis Renal artery stenosis Aortoiliac occlusive disease Critical limb ischemia Degos disease Erythromelalgia Fibromuscular dysplasia Hepatic artery thrombosis Intermittent claudication Raynaud's phenomenon
Aneurysm / dissection / pseudoaneurysm	torso: Aortic aneurysm Abdominal aortic aneurysm Thoracic aortic aneurysm Aneurysm of sinus of Valsalva Aortic dissection Aortic rupture Coronary artery aneurysm head / neck Intracranial aneurysm Intracranial berry aneurysm Carotid artery dissection Vertebral artery dissection Familial aortic dissection
Vascular malformation	Arteriovenous fistula Arteriovenous malformation Telangiectasia Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia Generalized essential telangiectasia
Vascular nevus	Cherry hemangioma Halo nevus Spider angioma

Veins

Inflammation	Phlebitis
Venous thrombosis / Thrombophlebitis	primarily lower limb Deep vein thrombosis abdomen Hepatic veno-occlusive disease Budd–Chiari syndrome May–Thurner syndrome Portal vein thrombosis Renal vein thrombosis upper limb / torso Mondor's disease Paget–Schroetter disease Pulmonary embolism head Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis Post-thrombotic syndrome
Varicose veins	Gastric varices Portacaval anastomosis Caput medusae Esophageal varices Hemorrhoid Varicocele
Other	Chronic venous insufficiency Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency Superior vena cava syndrome Inferior vena cava syndrome Venous ulcer

Arteries or veins

Blood pressure

Hypertension	Hypertensive heart disease Hypertensive emergency Hypertensive nephropathy Essential hypertension Secondary hypertension Renovascular hypertension Benign hypertension Pulmonary hypertension Systolic hypertension White coat hypertension
Hypotension	Orthostatic hypotension Shock (circulatory)

Signs and symptoms relating to the circulatory system

Chest pain

Auscultation

Pulse

Tachycardia
Bradycardia
Pulsus paradoxus
doubled
- Pulsus bisferiens
- Pulsus bigeminus
Pulsus alternans

Other

Shock

Cardiovascular disease

Aortic insufficiency	Collapsing pulse De Musset's sign Duroziez's sign Müller's sign Austin Flint murmur Mayne's sign
Other endocardium	endocarditis: Roth's spot Janeway lesion/Osler's node Bracht–Wachter bodies
Pericardium	Cardiac tamponade/Pericardial effusion: Beck's triad Ewart's sign
Other	rheumatic fever: Anitschkow cell Aschoff body EKG J wave Gallavardin phenomenon

Vascular disease

Arterial	aortic aneurysm Cardarelli's sign Oliver's sign pulmonary embolism Right heart strain radial artery sufficiency Allen's test pseudohypertension thrombus Lines of Zahn Adson's sign arteriovenous fistula Nicoladoni–Branham sign
Venous	Friedreich's sign Caput medusae Kussmaul's sign Trendelenburg test superior vena cava syndrome Pemberton's sign

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