Category: Cardiology

Framingham risk score for CAD incorporates age, gender, total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, smoking status, systolic BP, and antihypertensive therapy.

Truncus arteriosus repair: there was no death during the follow up period which ranged from three months to almost fourteen years after repair.

Study found an increased prevalence of cervical spondylosis among interventional electrophysiologists, compared to matched non interventional cardiologists.

Reverse crush is performed mainly with provisional side branch stenting and sub optimal side branch result.

Retrospective analysis of intravenous calcium in digitoxicity Conventional wisdom says that intravenous calcium should be avoided in digitoxicity. A retrospective analysis assessed this aspect. Digoxin being a sodium-potassium

Ultrasonography is useful for detecting radial access site complications, many of which may be asymptomatic and clinically silent.

Crush technique is useful when the proximal segment of the coronary bifurcation is also involved.

In mini crush technique for coronary bifurcation angioplasty, both branches are wired and balloon dilated initially.

CLEVER Study: Treadmill walking performance was better with supervised exercise program than with primary stenting for claudication in aortoiliac PVD.

Tissue Doppler techniques for evaluation of diastolic function of left ventricle is less load dependent than mitral inflow velocities.