Being diagnosed with a heart condition or disease can be a stressful and upsetting time for you and your loved ones, when you find out that your condition was left untreated or was allowed to progress due to negligent treatment can be worrying.

Commonly misdiagnosed cardiac conditions include:

• Abnormal heart rhythms.
• Aortic disease.
• Coronary heart disease (CHD).
• Heart attacks.
• High blood pressure (hypertension).
• Left-sided heart failure.
• Peripheral arterial disease.
• Right-sided heart failure.
• Stroke.

There may be grounds for a claim if a clinician has failed to:

• Refer you to a heart specialist for tests.
• Follow up abnormal test results.
• Properly interpret test results.
• Diagnose symptoms correctly.
• Carry out the correct treatment after diagnosis.
• Treat or recognise an infection.
• Perform surgery correctly.