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🟠 Calculating Shunt Fraction (Qp/Qs) Using Echocardiography

…progression in chronic conditions. Post Intervention Monitoring : Assess residual shunts after device closure or surgery. Differentiating Pathologies : Helps differentiate cardiac vs. non cardiac causes of…

Isoprenaline and Dopamine Infusions for Bradycardia

…of intermittent infrahisian block should be maintained, particularly in older patients and those exhibiting a bundle branch block (BBB) or an intraventricular conduction defect. In…

Post-Infarction Mechanical Complications: Ventricular Septal, Free-Wall, and Papillary Muscle Rupture

Echocardiography Myocardial ischemia and infarction Definition and pathophysiology Post infarction mechanical complications are structural disruptions of acutely infarcted myocardium occurring most often during the first…

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

…mild defects ( Baumgartner et al ). Approximately 40,000 children are born with CHD annually in the United States ( Triedman et al ). The prevalence of congenital…

CME: How dietary fat affects coronary arteries, LDL cholesterol and body weight

…debated intensely in the past decade. A quick search (on Google) for anything related to statins, LDL cholesterol and dietary fat returns thousands of blogs…

Skin biopsy — punch, shave and excision

…A pot of 4 % formalin, and for immunofluorescence Michel's medium or saline according to local procedure. Photograph and draw in the site before the…

Supraventricular and intraventricular conduction defects in myocardial ischemia and infarction

…RBBB) The right bundle branch block mainly affects the terminal portion of the QRS complex, resulting in a second R wave (referred to as R'…

Left bundle branch block (LBBB) in acute myocardial infarction: the Sgarbossa criteria

…To address these challenges, researchers have developed ECG criteria designed to identify ischemia in the presence of left bundle branch block. The most widely recognized…

Pharmacologic agents in myocardial perfusion imaging

…This results in flow heterogeneity and perfusion defects in areas supplied by the disease artery. Thus, vasodilators replicate the effects of exercise on coronary arteries…

Digoxin - ECG changes, arrhythmias, conduction defects & treatment

…conduction defects and waveform changes Digoxin may be used in patients with heart failure, atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, and in selected cases of paroxysmal supraventricular…

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