Author: Johnson Francis

Twenty year survival in Ebstein's anomaly after surgery was 65 percent compared to 74 percent in age and sex matched controls.

Those who respond very well to CRT are called super-responders to cardiac resynchronization therapy and are in the upper quartile of LVEF improvement.

More than 75 % of patients returned to baseline platelet reactivity in 7 days after discontinuation of prasugrel, similar effect for clopidogrel in 5 days

Drug eluting balloon with bare metal stent (BMS) implantation was found to be not superior to BMS alone in the DEB-AMI Trial.

If the slowing of heart rate is significant enough to become dangerous, stopping of lithium and substituting it with another medication is advisable.

LAD is short for left anterior descending coronary artery, branch of left main coronary artery, which supplies blood to the front portion of left ventricle.

Absent P waves can occur in atrial stand still either as an idiopathic disorder or following extensive radiofrequency ablation in the right atrium.

Since idioventricular rhythm is not a stable rhythm, the heart rate has to be stabilized by pacemaker implantation if the rhythm is permanent.

If blood vessels contract for a prolonged period, blood supply to the region will be affected and cause pain.

If a localized region of the cardiovascular system is considered, it is possibly the heart itself which has a large collection of blood at any time