Category: Cardiology

Effects of statins on HDL cholesterol and triglycerides

Pleiotropic effects of statins: vasodilation, antithrombotic effects, antioxidant effects, antiproliferative effects, anti-inflammatory effects and atherosclerotic plaque stabilization.

Medical management of stable angina: Aims of treatment in the management of stable angina are the prevention of myocardial infarction and death and to minimise or abolish symptoms.

Syndrome X, specifically cardiac syndrome X is angina with normal coronary angiograms.

Vasospastic / variant angina is characterized by pain at rest (occasionally at exertion) an associated with ST elevation in ECG during the pain.

Canadian cardiovascular society classification of angina severity

Thrombolysis in myocardial infarction can be considered in early presentations if percutaneous coronary intervention is not available or delayed.

If the right ventricle is filling during a right coronary injection, what is the possibility? Coronary cameral fistula.

VT in structurally normal heart constitutes about 10% of patients with ventricular tachycardia.

Artifacts during ECG monitoring could be caused by body movement and intermittent skin-electrode contact, rapid manipulation of a recording electrode on the skin and by electrical interference from