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Congenital heart disease & GUCH (Grown Up Congenital Heart disease)

…European Society for Cardiology, 2800 adults per 1 million individuals have congenital heart defects, and half of them have moderate or complicated defects; the remaining…

Coronary Anomalies and Myocardial Bridging

Cardiology Genetic and miscellaneous conditions Definition and classification Coronary anomalies are congenital abnormalities involving the origin, course, distribution, or termination of the coronary arteries. They…

Familial and Genetic Screening in Premature Cardiovascular Disease

…counselling and, where appropriate, molecular testing. The approach is particularly relevant to cardiomyopathies, channelopathies, heritable aortopathies, selected congenital heart diseases, pulmonary arterial hypertension and thromboembolic…

Sotalol: Initiation, QT Monitoring and Renal Dosing

…and young adults with congenital heart disease. Initiation Strategies Because of its ability to significantly prolong the QT interval and cause torsades de pointes or…

Coronary Anatomy and Segmental Classification for the Clinician

…Angiography also provides limited information about plaque composition, vulnerability and the risk of future plaque rupture. Anatomical severity versus functional significance The physiological effect of…

🟠 QT Drugs: Drugs causing QT prolongation, torsade de pointes (TdP) and long QT syndrome (LQTS)

…each drug and we recommend the reader to use this link to assess the literature. Medical conditions Category Condition Congenital conditions Jervell and Lange Nielsen…

Pulmonary Hypertension: Classification and Treatment Principles

…Potential explanations include congenital heart disease, liver disease, airway or lung disease, and hyperthyroidism; follow up and investigation of the cause of increased flow are…

Ventricular tachycardia (VT): ECG criteria, causes, classification, treatment

…electrolyte disorders , congenital heart disease and catecholamine induced ventricular tachycardia . The vast majority of patients with ventricular tachycardia either have coronary artery disease (ischemic heart…

Atrial fibrillation: ECG, classification, causes, risk factors & management

…heart failure, congenital heart disease, diabetes mellitus (both type 1 and type 2), obesity, smoking, obstructive sleep apnea and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Moreover…

A Novel Familial Cardiac Arrhythmia Syndrome Identified Using ECG

…A, Lange Nielsen F. Congenital deaf mutism, functional heart disease with prolongation of the Q T interval and sudden death. Am Heart J 1957;54…

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