Category: Cardiology

LAHB manifests as rS complexes in inferior leads causing left axis deviation in the absence of other causes of left axis deviation.

Basic principles of intracardiac electrograms, how they are recorded and interpreted.

Isolated left ventricular cardiac tamponade can occur postoperatively due to loculated collections posterior to the left ventricle.

Bifurcation lesions have wide range of variations in plaque burden, plaque location, site of bifurcation, angle between branches and diameter of branches.

Allopurinol added to optimal medications shown to increase the median exercise time to ST segment depression and the total exercise time.

Shone complex – surgical results Shone complex, originally described in 1963, [1] is combination of serial obstructions in the left heart at multiple levels. The original description included

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has higher resolution of 10 - 20 microns, but tissue penetration is only 2 - 3 mm, compared to 10 mm for IVUS.

Connexin 40 (Cx40) is a tissue-specific gap junction protein. Gap junctions are important in providing cell to cell coupling for propagation of impulses.

Decellularized pulmonary homograft is a cadaver derived allograft, processed to remove cells so that what remains is a scaffold of connective tissue.

Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis is described as an association with gadolinium based contrast agents in those with renal failure.