Category: Cardiology

Tricuspid regurgitation is most often secondary to elevated right ventricular pressure as a consequence of increased pressure in the pulmonary artery.

Coronary angioplasty is the procedure in which small balloons attached to the tip of small tubes are used to remove the blocks in coronary arteries.

Defibrillator is a device for delivering high energy direct current electric shocks in a controlled manner to correct abnormalities in cardiac rhythm.

An electrocardiograph records the electrical activity of the heart from the surface of the body. The recorded graph is called an electrocardiogram (ECG).

Cardiac pacemaker is a device meant to give regular electrical pulses to the heart when the normal pacemaker function of the heart is defective.

Cardiac catheterisation laboratory: place where angiography and inteventions are done

Two types of fibrinolytic protocols have been advised for the management of prosthetic valve thrombosis

Pannus is the ingrowth of fibrous tissue into the valve apparatus of prosthetic valves, causing valve dysfunction and increasing transvalvular gradients.

Using an anchor balloon for guide support can be tried when there is difficulty in passing a stent into a vessel.

Better to use an undersized stent than an oversized stent for SVG intervention. Distal overhang of the stent is required to reduce distal embolization.