Category: General Cardiology

Rheumatic mitral regurgitation: Mitral valve is the commonest valve involved in rheumatic heart disease.

Double outlet right ventricle (DORV) is a cyanotic congenital heart disease in which pulmonary artery and aorta arises from the right ventricle.

Congenital heart disease is an important cause of death in Down syndrome in early childhood.

Jones criteria for the diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever was first published in 1944

Holt-Oram syndrome was described by Mary Holt and Samuel Oram as 'Familial heart disease with skeletal malformations'.

Ebstein's anomaly is characterised by the distal displacement of the septal and posterior leaflets of the tricuspid valve.

Carney complex is an autosomal dominant disorder characterised by cardiac myxomas, lentiginosis and endocrine abnormalities.

Libman-Sacks Endocarditis was described by Libman and Sacks in 1924 as sterile verrucous vegetations in cases of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).

Ticagrelor is an anti-platelet agent which acts by blocking the ADP receptors of the subtype P2Y12.

Most women have prodromal symptoms before an acute myocardial infarction.