Category: General Cardiology

Anti-ischemic mechanism of ranolazine: prevention of Ca overload reduces diastolic myocardial stiffness and compression of intramyocardial blood vessels.

Natriuretic peptides : ANP and BNP are now well known while CNP and DNP are relatively newer molecules.

Emergency cardiovascular care (ECC) guidelines were first published in 1974. Now it is a combined effort of many associations, revised every 5 years.

Evaluation and management of chest pain: discussion of differential diagnosis and management of various types of angina pectoris.

Cardiovascular protection by HDL is mainly by reverse cholesterol transport. Other possible mechanisms are discussed.

Brain volume linked to cardiac index in Framingham Offspring study: decreasing cardiac function is associated with accelerated brain aging.

Heart failure pearls

GUSTO criteria for severity of bleeding complications: Severe or life-threatening bleeding, moderate bleeding, minor bleeding.

Heart type fatty acid binding protein (H-FABP) is a cytoplasmic protein involved in the uptake and buffering of free fatty acids in the myocardium.

There could be a genetic background for peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) which does not resolve in the usual pattern in the postpartum period.