Category: Cardiology

Drug eluting balloon with bare metal stent (BMS) implantation was found to be not superior to BMS alone in the DEB-AMI Trial.

Absent P waves can occur in atrial stand still either as an idiopathic disorder or following extensive radiofrequency ablation in the right atrium.

Since idioventricular rhythm is not a stable rhythm, the heart rate has to be stabilized by pacemaker implantation if the rhythm is permanent.

The electrode connected to the right leg is usually taken as the indifferent electrode in ECG (electrocardiogram).

ACS patients with prior TIA / Ischemic stroke have worse outcome – PLATO Trial ACS patients with prior TIA / Ischemic stroke have worse outcome: Stefan K James,

ROOBY Trial found that off pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) was less effective than on pump CABG .

Chest compression rates during cardiopulmonary resuscitation was found to affect return of spontaneous circulation, but not survival to hospital discharge.

Evaluation of prosthetic valves is one of the difficult tasks in echocardiography because of the dense shadows caused by prosthetic valves.

Regional wall motion abnormality (RWMA) on an echocardiogram Regional wall motion abnormality on an echocardiogram means that a region of the heart muscle is not contracting as it normally

Cardiac CT scan image at the level of the bifurcation of the main pulmonary artery (MPA) into right pulmonary artery (RPA) and left pulmonary artery (LPA).