Category: General Cardiology

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.

Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) can be defined as natural death from cardiac causes heralded by abrupt loss of consciousness within 1 hour of the onset of an acute

NT-proBNP levels reflect the mean values of left ventricular filling pressures over the previous 12 hours because of longer half life.