Category: General Cardiology

Adrenomedullin (ADM) is a vasodilatory peptide with potent hypotensive effects and levels of adrenomedullin are increased in chronic heart failure.

Olsen and colleagues from Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark report an association of congenital heart disease with developmental and psychiatric disorders

Cenderitide is a novel dual GC-A and GC-B agonist.

Reynolds risk score includes traditional risk factors used in the Framingham risk score along with parental family history of premature CAD and hs-CRP.

Pack year for cigarette smoking as a risk factor is the number of packs smoked per day multiplied by the number of years the person has been a

Prasugrel was more beneficial in PCI patients with STEMI, diabetes and stent thrombosis.

Kawasaki disease patients treated with ulinastatin (urinary trypsin inhibitor - a suppressor of neutrophils) had lower rates of coronary artery lesions.

Blood vessels of the heart (coronary arteries) are blood vessels supplying oxygenated blood to the heart itself for the muscular pump to function.

Framingham risk score for CAD incorporates age, gender, total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, smoking status, systolic BP, and antihypertensive therapy.

Retrospective analysis of intravenous calcium in digitoxicity Conventional wisdom says that intravenous calcium should be avoided in digitoxicity. A retrospective analysis assessed this aspect. Digoxin being a sodium-potassium