Category: Cardiology

ILLUMINATE trial analysis: there was significant improvement in glycemic control after torcetrapib treatment.

Right atrial infarction is more common than left atrial infarction, possibly because of the higher oxygen concentration in the left atrial blood.

Lewis lead is useful for recognition of P wave during wide QRS tachycardia when the P waves are usually obscured by the QRS complex or T wave.

Clinical signs of pulmonary hypertension are remarkable in Eisenmenger syndrome: left parasternal right ventricular heave, palpable second heart sound.

Congenital cyanotic heart diseases can be classified into those with decreased pulmonary blood flow and those with increased pulmonary blood flow.

Positron emission tomography (PET) can measure both the myocardial perfusion and metabolism.

Magnetic resonance angiography (MR angio) is a non invasive technique which enables excellent visualization of the peripheral arteries.

KCNJ5 or the potassium inwardly-rectifying channel, subfamily J, member 5 is the gene involved in in congenital long QT syndrome 13 (LQTS13).

Long QT syndrome 13 (LQT13) has been described by Yang and associates in a large four generation Chinese family in 2010.

Twelve types of familial atrial fibrillation has been described in the OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man) database.