All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

TGA like physiology can be seen in D- TGA with VSD and no PS, DORV with VSD and no PS, tricuspid atresia with VSD and no PS etc.

Fallot like physiology – cyanotic heart disease with low pulmonary blood flow

Bilateral carotid artery stenosis can be tackled by careful stenting in a staged manner with low risk.

Smoking and heart attack is an important association. Smokers have up to 400% greater chance of getting heart disease.

Basically there are two types of treadmills for exercise at home. They mechanical ones and electrical driven treadmills.

Opening narrowed heart valves without surgery is by dilating them with balloons introduced into the heart through blood vessels.

Pulmonary artery banding is used to reduce the pulmonary blood flow in situations of high pulmonary blood flow as a result of left to right shunts.

Commonest great artery relationship in DORV is side by side. Other types are NRGA like, D-TGA like and L-TGA like great artery relationships.

Asymmetric VSD closure device has been designed for the closure of: a) Sub-pulmonic VSD b) Peri-membraneous VSD c) Muscular VSD d) Inlet VSD

An asymmetric VSD closure device is found to decrease the chance of complete heart block.