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A Novel Familial Cardiac Arrhythmia Syndrome Identified Using ECG

…Atrial fibrillation and ventricular arrhythmias were observed in the fifth decade of life in several family members. Imaging studies did not reveal structural cardiac abnormalities…

A new ECG biomarker for sudden cardiac death

…death, and among those who did, only a minority had a reduced value — the majority of sudden cardiac deaths occur in patients with preserved LVEF…

Early repolarization pattern on ECG (early repolarization syndrome)

…18% have been reported. In the consensus report by MacFarlane et al it was noted that roughly 5% to 13% of all individuals in a…

Cardiovascular Risk Assessment with SCORE2 and SCORE2-OP

…healthy people or for individuals with elevated BP who do not already have a condition conferring sufficiently high cardiovascular risk. They should not be applied…

Anthropometric measurements

…is a population measure that performs poorly at the level of the individual: it does not distinguish muscle from fat and takes no account of…

Hypertension: Causes, investigations, complications & treatment

…Ezzati et al, Lim et al ). Approximately 90–95% of individuals with hypertension have essential hypertension , also referred to as primary hypertension . Essential hypertension is…

🟠 Enalaprilat

…hypertensive crisis due to its slow onset, prolonged duration of effect, and significant individual variations in its effect. Drug Enalaprilat Brand names Vasotec IV ®…

Cardiac arrest during pregnancy and childbirth

…manage cardiac arrest during pregnancy. Upon recognition of a cardiac arrest in a pregnant individual, either within or outside the hospital, prompt communication with an…

Risk factors for sudden cardiac arrest

…term prevention of cardiac arrest. Unfortunately, these efforts have not borne fruit. Our current ability to predict cardiac arrest remains poor at best. A key…

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (broken heart syndrome, stress induced cardiomyopathy)

…is corroborated by the finding that 75% of patients have increased plasma levels of catecholamines. References A recent consensus document has been issued by the…

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