The embargo prevented Cuba's cardiology programme from obtaining consumables used in interventional cardiology procedures directly from the manufacturers.

Now we've got the dawn of interventional surgery here.

We really are seeing the dawn of interventional surgery.

Telehealth had been successfully used for pathology, radiology, magnetic resonance imaging, cardiology and further medical consultations.

While still in a research phase, stem cells may one day herald a quantum leap in the field of cardiology.

My Government, through an act of Parliament, has established the National HIV AIDS STI TB Council to coordinate all interventional efforts.

Chronic total occlusion is described as the last fortress of interventional therapy in coronary heart disease. The surgery success rate is around 70 .

On the cardiac side, pacemakers are getting smaller and much easier to place so you don't need to train an interventional cardiologist to place them.

Well there was a little piece of that Women's Health Initiative that went to National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, which is the cardiology part of the NIH.

I think this aspect of training in cardiology that the Heart Institute of the Caribbean has introduced in Jamaica is very important in terms of diagnosing cardiac diseases.

We have taken care of over 1,000 indigent patients that could have died, including four free pacemakers in patients with complete heart block. For those that understand cardiology, complete heart block means certain death.

And the last slide I want to show you is from I was again, this swami that I studied with for so many years, and I did a combined oncology and cardiology Grand Rounds at the University of Virginia medical school a couple of years ago.