Category: General Cardiology

Cardiovascular risks of obesity: Premature atherosclerosis, risk of myocardial infarction, heart failure, decreased survival, due to cardiovascular deaths.

Sydenham’s chorea is one of the major manifestations of rheumatic fever. It is a quasi purposive, non repetitive involuntary movement.

There is very little evidence for the role of aspirin for primary prevention except in females above the age of sixty five years.

CURRENT OASIS 7 trial found that double dose clopidogrel was associated with significant reduction in stent thrombosis in those who underwent PCI.

Isolated left ventricular cardiac tamponade can occur postoperatively due to loculated collections posterior to the left ventricle.

Allopurinol added to optimal medications shown to increase the median exercise time to ST segment depression and the total exercise time.

Connexin 40 (Cx40) is a tissue-specific gap junction protein. Gap junctions are important in providing cell to cell coupling for propagation of impulses.

P2Y12 antagonists can be classified into three generations depending whether they are reversible or irreversible inhibitors.

Cardiac involvement in Costello syndrome: hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, valvular pulmonary stenosis, atrial arrhythmias (chaotic atrial rhythm/ MAT or EAT).

Hallmark of cardiac amyloidosis is thickening of ventricular walls seen on echocardiography without corresponding higher voltages on electrocardiography.