Category: General Cardiology

Adiponectin and peripheral arterial disease: Total and high molecular weight adiponectin were lower in women who develop peripheral arterial disease.

Bone marrow stem cells can proliferate and differentiate into various types of cells. Bone marrow stem cells are a renewable source and easily accessible.

Classification of VSD: perimembranous, muscular, inlet or AV canal type and supracristal.

Genes implicated in dilated cardiomyopathy

Overall combined data favours medium dose therapy with sildenafil for pediatric pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Sinus of Valsalva aneurysms are clinically silent unless they produce symptoms due to compression of adjacent structures or rupture.

Though life threatening cardiac arrhythmias are the most important adverse effects seen with digitoxicity, the most common ones are anorexia and nausea.

Loeffler endocarditis was described by Wilhelm Loffler in 1936

Newer anti anginal drugs: ranolazine inhibits late sodium current, trimetazidine inhibits beta oxidation of fatty acids, nicorandil dilates coronary resistance vessels.

Myocardial oxygen consumption is the oxygen consumed by heart muscle and the determinants are intramyocardial wall tension, contractility and heart rate.