Category: Cardiology

Fractional flow reserve (FFR) estimation using the Doppler wire is useful in assessing the need for a side branch stent in bifurcation disease.

High pass filter for bipolar intracardiac electrograms are set at thirty to fifty Hertz as the timing of the signal is more important and not the morphology

Reynolds risk score includes traditional risk factors used in the Framingham risk score along with parental family history of premature CAD and hs-CRP.

Myocardial bridge: portion of epicardial coronary artery passes beneath a myocardial bridge, seen as a narrowing in systole, but not in diastole.

Speckle tracking echocardiography can be used to identify ideal sites for LV lead implantation

Pack year for cigarette smoking as a risk factor is the number of packs smoked per day multiplied by the number of years the person has been a

Tachycardia mediated atrial cardiomyopathy denotes atrial mechanical stunning after reversion of persistent atrial arrhythmias like AF or AFL.

Transradial access for primary angioplasty: Trans radial vascular access is gaining popularity for both elective and primary angioplasty in acute MI.

Prasugrel was more beneficial in PCI patients with STEMI, diabetes and stent thrombosis.

Kawasaki disease patients treated with ulinastatin (urinary trypsin inhibitor - a suppressor of neutrophils) had lower rates of coronary artery lesions.