All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

Cardiac catheterisation laboratory: place where angiography and inteventions are done

Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is a communication between the pulmonary artery (blood vessel carrying deoxygenated blood to the lungs) and aorta.

Two types of fibrinolytic protocols have been advised for the management of prosthetic valve thrombosis

Pannus is the ingrowth of fibrous tissue into the valve apparatus of prosthetic valves, causing valve dysfunction and increasing transvalvular gradients.

Using an anchor balloon for guide support can be tried when there is difficulty in passing a stent into a vessel.

Better to use an undersized stent than an oversized stent for SVG intervention. Distal overhang of the stent is required to reduce distal embolization.

IABP is a useful tool while performing unprotected left main stenting. Unprotected left main is one which is not protected by a patent graft or collaterals.

In SKS, it is difficult to reenter the lesion as the wire can pass through the struts of one stent and reenter the opposite vessel.

PCI in situs inversus with dextrocardia provides certain challenges to the interventionalists.

Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is being explored as an option for high operative risk moderate to severe functional mitral regurgitation.