Category: Cardiology

Echocardiography is ultrasound imaging of the heart.

The coronary risk reduction after smoking cessation is fifty percent by one year.

Age and etiology of aortic stenosis: degenerative AS beyond 60 years, BCAV stenosis in 40-60 years and rheumatic AS before 40 years of age.

ALPHEE study concluded that celivarone was not effective for the prevention of ICD intervention or sudden death.

Reel syndrome: pulse generator rotates on its transverse axis and lead coils around the generator, retracting from the heart, causing loss of capture.

Transcoronary ethanol ablation for VT is used when endocardial / epicardial RF ablation has failed and for deep intra myocardial foci.

Tips on endovascular aortic repair (EVAR) and types of endoleak after EVAR.

Ten year survival of aortoarteritis (Takayasu’s arteritis) was eighty four percent with sixty four percent was event free survival.

NACE = net adverse clinical event(s) = MACE + major bleeding unrelated to CABG

Medina classification assigns a binary value (1,0) to the three components of a coronary bifurcation depending on whether have > (1) or < (0) 50% lesion.