Category: General Cardiology

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.

6 minute walk test is a simple test to estimate the functional capacity in patients who cannot perform a conventional exercise test like treadmill test.

Rivaroxaban reduced the risk of composite endpoint in ACS, but increased risk of major bleeding and intracranial hemorrhage, though not fatal bleeding.

Unlike in the case of torcetrapib, dalcetrapib did not increase the blood pressure.