All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

Ultrasonography is useful for detecting radial access site complications, many of which may be asymptomatic and clinically silent.

Crush technique is useful when the proximal segment of the coronary bifurcation is also involved.

In mini crush technique for coronary bifurcation angioplasty, both branches are wired and balloon dilated initially.

CLEVER Study: Treadmill walking performance was better with supervised exercise program than with primary stenting for claudication in aortoiliac PVD.

Tissue Doppler techniques for evaluation of diastolic function of left ventricle is less load dependent than mitral inflow velocities.

Increased length and flow, decreased sternal infections and reduced pain are the proposed benefits of skeletonized internal mammary artery grafting.

The eight previously known Brugada syndrome genes are three Na channel genes, two K channel genes, two Ca channel genes and one GPD 1-like gene.

Various types of coronary anomalies in TOF have been described.

Echocardiography is ultrasound imaging of the heart.

The coronary risk reduction after smoking cessation is fifty percent by one year.