Category: Cardiology

Does statin therapy increase the chance of type 2 diabetes mellitus? Slightly increased risk of new onset type 2 diabetes mellitus noted in study.

Atrial fibrillation - transient / reversible factors: alcohol, cardiac surgery, infarction, pericarditis, myocarditis, pulmonary embolism, hyperthyroidism.

Atrial stunning denotes the delay in the onset of organised atrial contraction after a successful cardioversion of atrial fibrillation.

Juvenile T wave inversion is seen in anterior chest leads and may persist for a variable period in adult life.

ECG Quiz 33

ECG Quiz 39

ECG Quiz 1

12 lead ECG tracing showing sinus bradycardia at a rate of around 45 per minute.

Left atrial ganglionic plexi are new targets of AF ablation. Four major plexi are superior left, inferior left, anterior right and inferior right.

MR angiography of both femoral arteries showing severe disease on both sides with reformation of the vessels lower down as a good sized popliteal arteries.