Category: Cardiology

How does blood pressure get elevated in polycythemia rubra vera? Polycythemia rubra vera is a condition in which there is an abnormal increase in the erythrocyte count. Increased

Can you mention an adverse effect common to many antihypertensive drugs? Orthostatic hypotension or fall in blood pressure on standing up, is an adverse effect common to diuretics,

Intracranial pressure goes up with bleeding in the brain, causing a reflex increase in blood pressure pressure and slowing of heart rate (Cushing reflex).

Fluroscopy is an excellent tool for the evaluation of mechanical prosthetic valves.

Crux of the heart: Junction of the atrioventricular and inter ventricular grooves behind the heart.

Coronary arteries are blood vessels supplying oxygenated blood to the heart. Two coronary arteries, right and left, arises from the root of aorta.

Left ventricular diastolic function assessment by echocardiography usually on mitral inflow velocity measurement with demonstration of E/A reversal.

Cardiac catheterisation laboratory is the place where angiography (imaging of blood vessels and the heart) and interventions are done.

Alpha and beta angles of r’ wave can be used to differentiate between Brugada syndrome and incomplete right bundle branch block.

Nanto’s technique is for changing a percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) balloon catheter over a regular-length guide wire.