Category: General Cardiology

In the Europa study on perindopril, an angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor, 12218 patients with stable coronary artery disease participated.

Patients with a homozygous deletional form of ACE gene (dd) have increased circulating ACE level and hence are more likely to develop myocardial infarction

ACE inhibitors in coronary artery disease: most important benefit is prevention of adverse cardiovascular remodeling after a myocardial infarction.

Clinical features of severe aortic stenosis

Coarctation of aorta is a narrowing in the proximal descending aorta. It can be a discrete narrowing or a tubular one.

Irregular cannon waves in jugular venous pulse are seen in complete heart block and with frequent ventricular ectopic beats.

Surgical shunts in congenital heart disease: Blalock - Taussig shunt, Glenn shunt, Waterston shunt, Potts shunt and their modifications.

Univentricular Heart Univentricular heart has one dominant ventricle and a rudimentary ventricle, usually just an outflow chamber. Dominant ventricle has double inlet. This can be double inlet left

Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ) is a set of 21 questions used to evaluated patients with heart failure.

Lower Coenzyme Q10 levels have been linked to mortality in chronic heart failure.