Patient Education

Cardiology Courses Online is written for doctors. If you are a patient, or caring for someone with heart disease, this page points you to material written for you in plain language by the same author, Dr A M Thirugnanam, MD, MSICP, FSCAI, Ph.D., Senior Interventional Cardiologist.

This page is not a substitute for your own doctor. The material below explains conditions and treatments in general terms. It cannot tell you what is right for you. Do not start, stop or change any medicine without speaking to the doctor who prescribed it. If you have chest pain, sudden breathlessness, fainting or signs of a stroke, call 112 or 108 in India (or your local emergency number) immediately.

Books written for patients and families

These titles are available here as downloadable eBooks. Each is written for the public rather than for clinicians.

After a heart procedure

Preventing heart disease

Mind and heart

Free heart-health programmes for the public

Viretonaa Health Club is our public preventive-cardiology club. It focuses on lifestyle, diet, sleep, stress and early detection of heart disease, and includes a Heart Risk Assessment you can complete online.

Patient-friendly videos are published on the IPCARD TV YouTube channel and the IPCARD Facebook page.

For doctors: using this with your patients

Clinicians often ask what to give patients after angioplasty, bypass surgery or a new diagnosis. The books above are written to be recommended to patients and families. Recommending a title is always welcome; please do not copy or redistribute the eBook files, which are licensed to the individual purchaser.

Questions about your own heart?

We cannot answer personal medical questions through this website, by email or on social media, because safe advice needs an examination and your records. To see Dr Thirugnanam as a patient, please book through the hospitals listed on Maps and Directions.