Category: General Cardiology

ILLUMINATE trial analysis: there was significant improvement in glycemic control after torcetrapib treatment.

Clinical signs of pulmonary hypertension are remarkable in Eisenmenger syndrome: left parasternal right ventricular heave, palpable second heart sound.

Congenital cyanotic heart diseases can be classified into those with decreased pulmonary blood flow and those with increased pulmonary blood flow.

Syndromes in CHD (congenital heart disease)

Sudden death in young athletes could be due to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, commotio cordis, coronary anomalies, aortic stenosis and long QT syndrome.

Hypoplastic left heart syndrome: hypoplasia of left heart at multiple levels - hypoplastic left ventricle, aortic atresia and a hypoplastic ascending aorta.

Innocent murmurs may be heard in up to fifty percent of normal children. Still’s murmur is a common innocent murmur of childhood.

Supravalvar aortic stenosis is often part of the William's syndrome with hypercalcemia, elfin facies and learning disability associated.

A retrospective analysis showed that renin-angiotensin blockade may in fact be useful in aortic stenosis.

Evaluation of a patient with grown up congenital heart disease (GUCH) is similar to any other patient and begins with a good history to assess symptoms.