Category: Cardiology

TMT is short for treadmill (device used for exercise testing) test. The subject walks on a motorized belt, the speed and gradient of which can be adjusted.

EVOLVO study found that remote monitoring of defibrillators is useful in terms of reducing ER visits, total health care usage and better quality of care.

Supraventricular ectopics can mimic a ventricular ectopic when there is aberrant ventricular conduction either pre-existing or phasic.

Cryoablation is a method used to treat heart rhythm disorders by freezing the abnormal region using a cryoprobe.

Virtual EP study was performed in the computer model and real EP study was performed in vivo with programmed stimulation and noncontact mapping in pigs.

Shone's complex is a series of obstructive birth defects of the left side of the heart.

Ashman phenomenon has been described in atrial fibrillation. It is a form of aberrancy which was described by Gouaux and Ashman in 1947

Closed mitral valvotomy (CMV) was the closed heart procedure being done to open up a narrowed mitral valve (mitral stenosis) in the yester years.

Supra ventricular ectopics are premature beats originating above the ventricles.

Monomorphic ventricular ectopics are premature ventricular beats having the same morphology or shape.