All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

Systolic and diastolic frames from apical 4C view on echocardiography seen on the same screen.

Ebstein's anomaly is characterised by the distal displacement of the septal and posterior leaflets of the tricuspid valve.

Pulseless electrical activity (PEA) refers to any cardiac rhythm in which there is no palpable pulse, but the ECG shows cardiac activity.

Levophase of left coronary angiogram showing the coronary sinus and its tributaries.

AEDs are automatic external defibrillators which give instructions to lay operators; can be used by lay public for resuscitating a person in cardiac arrest.

Rheolytic thrombectomy: a jet of saline is directed at the thrombus in the coronary artery from the tip of a catheter using an AngioJet system.

Right coronary artery spasm noted as a discrete narrowing in the proximal RCA without any significant lesion elsewhere; relieved with NTG.

Carney complex is an autosomal dominant disorder characterised by cardiac myxomas, lentiginosis and endocrine abnormalities.

Libman-Sacks Endocarditis was described by Libman and Sacks in 1924 as sterile verrucous vegetations in cases of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).

Pericardiocentesis is often done therapeutically, but may occasionally be done for diagnostic purpose alone.