Category: General Cardiology

Mechanisms of pulmonary hypertension in COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease).

Mechanism of pulmonary hypertension in kyphoscoliosis: pulmonary vasoconstriction due to hypoxemia and poor development of pulmonary vasculature.

The various positions of ventricular septal defects in double outlet right ventricle are: Subaortic, subpulmonary, doubly committed, remote or no VSD.

Myocardial glucotoxicity and lipotoxicity in uncontrolled diabetes mellitus may be linked to dilated cardiomyopathy.

Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy is characterised by left ventricular (LV) apical ballooning and normal coronary arteries.

Abnormal diastolic function is the hallmark in restrictive cardiomyopathies.

Hallmark of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is asymmetrical septal hypertrophy which narrows the left ventricular outflow tract.

Familial dilated cardiomyopathy constitutes about 30% of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy.

Peripartum cardiomyopathy is diagnosed when features of dilated cardiomyopathy develops in the last one month of pregnancy or within 5 months of delivery.

Alcoholic cardiomyopathy was also known as alcoholic heart muscle disease.