Category: Cardiology

Model for End-Stage Liver Disease or MELD score is a logarithmic function of creatinine, total bilirubin, and International Normalized Ratio. MELD score was originally developed to assess prognosis

Calculation of intracardiac shunts by cardiac cath and Flamm formula. Pulmonary blood flow is designated as QP and systemic blood flow as QS in hemodynamic calculations. When there

How can you know if the Holter monitor stops recording? It depends on whether the Holter monitor is a tape recorder or an electronic (digital) recorder. If it

Locomotor brachii or locomotor brachialis is often described as a peripheral sign in severe aortic regurgitation or other causes of aortic runoff.

The mitral valve complex consists of the mitral annulus, mitral valve leaflets, the chordae tendineae and the papillary muscles. The mitral leaflets are the anterior and posterior leaflets.

Nitric Oxide Synthase: Three important varieties: nNOS, iNOS, eNOS

Echocardiogram in ostium primum atrial septal defect with a recap of embryological development of atrial septum.

Left Bundle Branch Block LBBB and STEMI Criteria: Start off with Cabrera’s sign and Chapman’s sign.

Couple of chest X-rays showing serial changes in pulmonary hypertension over the years and another with features of severe pulmonary hypertension.

Patent ductus arteriosus in Tetralogy of Fallot, seen as a mosaic colour jet in pulmonary artery. Colour flow imaging shows high velocity jet in the pulmonary artery arising