Category: Cardiology

Sometimes tachycardia focus is sub epicardial situated and needs epicardial ablation either through the coronary sinus or from the true epicardial aspect.

New study which found no significant association between any of the components of early repolarization and cardiac mortality.

Myocardial blood flow (measured by positron emission tomography) during stress divided by resting flow was taken as the coronary flow reserve.

Stress tissue Doppler imaging is done under dobutamine stress to avoid the problem of tissue Doppler imaging during exercise.

Serum vitamin E levels were lower in patients with recurrence of AF after electrical cardioversion.

Flash pulmonary edema in renal artery stenosis has been called Pickering Syndrome

Allopurinol infusion acutely improves the concentrations of ATP in the myocardium of the failing human heart.

Lesion related factors predicting peri procedural myocardial injury: restenotic lesions, SVG disease, eccentric lesions, greater plaque / thrombus burden

Platelet reactivity can be measured in P2Y12 reaction units (PRU) and can be used to assess on-treatment platelet reactivity (OTR) after PCI.

Miniature pumps give more comfort and mobility for the patients than the usual biventricular ventricular assist devices with displacement pumps.