All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

Age as a risk factor for coronary artery disease: more than 45 years for males and more than 55 years for females are taken to convey risk.

Myocardial bridge: portion of epicardial coronary artery passes beneath a myocardial bridge, seen as a narrowing in systole, but not in diastole.

Speckle tracking echocardiography can be used to identify ideal sites for LV lead implantation

Pack year for cigarette smoking as a risk factor is the number of packs smoked per day multiplied by the number of years the person has been a

Tachycardia mediated atrial cardiomyopathy denotes atrial mechanical stunning after reversion of persistent atrial arrhythmias like AF or AFL.

Transradial access for primary angioplasty: Trans radial vascular access is gaining popularity for both elective and primary angioplasty in acute MI.

Prasugrel was more beneficial in PCI patients with STEMI, diabetes and stent thrombosis.

Kawasaki disease patients treated with ulinastatin (urinary trypsin inhibitor - a suppressor of neutrophils) had lower rates of coronary artery lesions.

European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE) has been developed to assess the risk of patients undergoing cardiac surgery.

Metabolic tracers for PET scan include C-11 palmitate, I-123 Beta-methyl-p-[123I]-iodophenyl-pentadecanoic acid (BMIPP) and F18 fluro-deoxy glucose (FDG).