Category: Cardiology

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.

Increased length and flow, decreased sternal infections and reduced pain are the proposed benefits of skeletonized internal mammary artery grafting.

The eight previously known Brugada syndrome genes are three Na channel genes, two K channel genes, two Ca channel genes and one GPD 1-like gene.

Various types of coronary anomalies in TOF have been described.

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.