Withholding anti platelet therapy in those with coronary stents Five to ten percent of patients who have been implanted a coronary stent will need a surgery within the
Who needs a Pacemaker? Anyone with chronic, symptomatic bradycardia Asymptomatic life threatening bradycardia in following situations: Long pauses more than 3 sec while awake Heart rate less than
Cardiology X-ray Quiz This X-ray chest PA view shows a prominent main pulmonary artery segment. Right pulmonary artery shadow is also slightly more prominent. Left pulmonary artery does
Risk factors for stent thrombosis Risk factors for stent thrombosis can be divided into those due to unfavourable anatomical characteristics or procedural characteristics and those due to unfavourable
Reversible and irreversible platelet inhibition by anti platelet agents Agents which irreversibly inhibit platelets are: Aspirin Ticlopidine Clopidogrel Prasugrel In general all these agents except prasugrel are ideally
Cardiovascular surgeries with high risk of bleeding: Re-do surgeries Surgeries in the setting of infective endocarditis Coronary artery bypass grafting after failed percutaneous coronary intervention – bail out
Specific risk for bleeding with CABG Specific risk for bleeding with CABG: Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery has a few specific factors to it which can cause