All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

ISAR-CABG trial: for de-novo saphenous vein graft lesions, drug eluting stents were better than bare metal stents.

Conversion to and from dabigatran to other anticoagulants is depending on the creatinine clearance, longer period for washout is needed as clearance drops.

Difficulties in onset and maintenance of sleep as well as feeling of non restorative sleep were associated with increase in risk of myocardial infarction.

Rivaroxaban is an anticoagulant that acts by selective direct inhibition of factor Xa. It is the latest oral anticoagulant to be approved by US FDA, after dabigatran.

Neurodevelopmental problems post d-TGA repair Children who would never have survived to adulthood due to D-transposition of great arteries are now able to grow well into adulthood, thanks

Plaque rupture and ulceration common in females with myocardial infarction and non obstructed coronaries

Abnormal heart rate recovery after exercise predicts mortality. Abnormal heart rate recovery after cardiac rehabilitation predicts higher mortality.

Tecarfarin is a vitamin K analogue which acts by inhibiting vitamin K epoxide reductase.

Apixaban is a direct factor Xa inhibitor. It has an oral bioavailability of about fifty percent.

Rivaroxaban is direct, specific, competitive factor Xa inhibitor and it has a half life of five to thirteen hours.