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ArticleProcedurer
Exercise stress test on cycle ergometer

…with normal ST segments, whereas isolated ST depression in a woman with a low pre test probability is usually a false positive. Indications Evaluation of…

ArticleClinical chemistry & laboratory medicine
The Fourth Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction: Types 1–5

…including: Cardiac causes Systemic causes Heart failure Sepsis Myocarditis Chronic kidney disease Cardiomyopathy Stroke or subarachnoid haemorrhage Takotsubo syndrome Pulmonary embolism Recent coronary revascularization Infiltrative…

ArticleCardiology
Dietary Patterns and Cardiovascular Outcomes

Cardiology Clinical medicine Definition and Pathophysiology Dietary patterns are the overall combinations of foods habitually consumed rather than isolated nutrients considered independently. For cardiometabolic health…

ArticleArrhythmias and arrhythmology
Atropine: Dosing in Bradycardia and Its Limitations

…level, producing atrioventricular (AV) or intraventricular blocks. Isolated sinus bradycardia in the early hours following infarction may be associated with hemodynamic compromise. More broadly, bradyarrhythmic…

ArticleReferensvärden
Blood pressure

…and/or 100–109 Grade 3 hypertension ≥ 180 and/or ≥ 110 Isolated systolic hypertension ≥ 140 and < 90 Thresholds for different measurement methods Measurement technique…

ArticleKardiologi
Hypertensive crisis: drugs and doses

…organ damage. Isolated malignant retinopathy without other acute organ damage can often be treated more cautiously with oral drugs under careful observation [3,4]. A…

ArticleReferensvärden
Liver parameters

…tumour, primary biliary cholangitis, drugs Mixed Both raised Drug induced liver injury is the commonest cause Isolated bilirubin Unconjugated, the others normal Gilbert's syndrome…

ArticleCardiology
Blood Pressure Targets in Older and Frail Adults

…Consequently, isolated systolic hypertension and widening pulse pressure are common in later life. These changes contribute to the complexity of defining an appropriate treatment target…

ArticleCardiology
Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection

…of patients with SCAD. SCAD should therefore prompt consideration of systemic arteriopathy rather than being regarded solely as an isolated coronary event. SCAD predominantly affects…

ArticleCardiology
Cardiovascular Prevention in the Very Elderly

…After approximately 70 years of age, isolated systolic hypertension accounts for more than 90% of prevalent hypertension. Hypertension has a major population attributable contribution to…

ArticleCardiology
Diuretic Strategy and Decongestion in Heart Failure

…and hemodynamic instability. Evaluation and physical examination The objective of decongestion is clinical euvolemia rather than an isolated numerical change in weight. Assessment should integrate…

ArticleECG
Quiz: ECG in athletes

…sinus bradycardia (<30 beats/min or sinus pauses ≥3s) C: Increased QRS voltage (isolated QRS voltage criteria for left ventricular hypertrophy or right ventricular hypert

ArticleCardiology
Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)

…8] . Pathophysiology and mechanisms The pathophysiological paradigm of HFpEF has shifted dramatically from the historical concept of isolated "diastolic dysfunction" to a systemic, multiorgan disease…

ArticleECG
The PR Interval & PR segment

…impulse cannot travel directly from atrial myocardium to ventricular myocardium because the two are electrically isolated from each other by the fibrous rings ( anulus fibrosus)…

ArticleContinous medical discussion: the ECG blog
A new ECG biomarker for sudden cardiac death

…electronic health records, and asked whether it could isolate a clinically actionable high risk group for SCD — one defined entirely from the ECG, without echocardiography…

ArticleProcedurer
Arterial line

…tubing, a transducer, and a flush system with physiological saline in a pressure bag inflated to 300 mmHg , which provides a continuous slow flush. Ultrasound…

ArticleProcedurer
Endotracheal intubation

…in kg Always have one size smaller to hand. The cuff is inflated to 20–30 cmH₂O measured with a manometer — a higher pressure ca