…posture. Specific triggers are well recognized and include: Provoked fear, pain, anxiety, intense emotion, the sight of blood, unpleasant sights and odors, and orthostatic stress…

…evaluate their performance and symptoms under the supervision of their clinician. Indeed, kinesiophobia (fear of exercising) is common after myocardial infarction and it is associated…

…the patient to recite the months of the year backwards. A normal result does not exclude delirium, however, and an abnormal result is not specific…

…is also possible to zoom in on regions of interest; e.g the aortic valve can be zoomed in to study its anatomy and function…

…image of the tissue, the ultrasound machine must overcome the following technical obstacles. The ultrasound machine must know which sound waves are reflected and from…

…In the majority of cases, it is only possible to determine the ischemic/infarct area (and thus the culprit) if the ECG displays ST segment…

…spectral curve and indicates how far blood travels during the flow period. VTI can be used for various volume calculations, such as calculation of stroke…

…The test presupposes that the patient has spontaneous nystagmus at the time of examination and that the examiner is experienced with the head impulse test…

…book? This question is far from trivial and the stakes are high; mastering ECG interpretation will frequently be a matter of life and death. ECG…

…intend to present an ECG with early repolarization (which is associated with 5 times as great a risk of ventricular fibrillation and sudden cardiac death)…

…waves reflect repolarization and should not be sensed by the pacemaker. Sensing is used to inhibiting or triggering pacing pulses. The inhibition of pacing is…

…The latter is far more common and the conditions may coexist. A significant percentage of the population has hypertension, and aortic stenosis is also more…

…more difficult, which explains why individuals with bundle branch blocks are treated sub optimally (in terms of evidence based medications and use of PCI), as…

…of the heart, as follows: The left anterior descending coronary artery ( LAD ). The left circumflex coronary artery ( LCX ). Figure 1 shows the coronary arteries and…

…one of the greatest advances in cardiology. Until 1961, patients with acute myocardial infarction were placed in beds located far away from physicians' and nurses…

…descriptors of pathological extent. Magnetic resonance imaging findings indicate that Q wave development relates more closely to infarct volume than to transmurality. Clinical Presentation and…