Category: Cardiology

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.

WPW syndrome is characterized on the ECG by a short PR interval, wide QRS complex and a delta wave at the beginning of the QRS complex.

Starlings law of the heart states that the force of contraction of the heart muscle is directly proportional to the initial fibre length.

DDI mode: A functional mode of the pacemaker in which both chambers are sensed and both chambers are paced, in the inhibitory mode.

Aliasing: Phenomenon in Doppler echocardiography occurring when the velocity is beyond the Nyquist limit, the direction of flow is depicted as opposite.

Jatene's procedure is arterial switch operation, a corrective surgery for d-transposition of great arteries (d-TGA).

When conduction through left bundle is delayed or blocked, a characteristic pattern is seen on ECG, which is known as the left bundle branch block (LBBB).