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Vulnerable Plaque and Mechanisms of Acute Coronary Occlusion

…and a thin fibrous cap. Disruption of the cap exposes the lipid core and extracellular matrix to circulating blood. Tissue factor within the plaque and…

Biventricular hypertrophy ECG and clinical characteristics

…However, the ECG may show features characteristic of biventricular hypertrophy. Biventricular hypertrophy ECG In case the ECG or other examinations suggest left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH…

Preeclampsia and Hypertensive Pregnancy Disorders as Future Cardiovascular Risk

…may nevertheless be diagnosed without proteinuria when clinical symptoms or laboratory abnormalities indicate end organ injury. Eclampsia is the occurrence of new onset seizures or…

Atherosclerosis: Pathogenesis from Fatty Streak to Plaque Rupture

…presence of these features does not imply inevitable clinical disruption. Fewer than 5% of thin capped fibroatheromas have been identified as the source of an…

Invasive Coronary Angiography: Indications and Vascular Access

…identify plaque disruption, thrombus and other structural features that may not be evident on angiography alone. It is particularly useful when ACS occurs without significant…

Left Ventricular Thrombus After Myocardial Infarction

…fourfold greater risk of embolic events in patients with LV thrombus than in matched patients without thrombus. Factors associated with embolization Echocardiographic features suggesting increased…

Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: Diagnosis and Treatment

…chronic kidney disease (CKD), and multiple non cardiovascular conditions are frequent features. A proposed disease pathway involves systemic and coronary microvascular endothelial inflammation associated with…

A new ECG biomarker for sudden cardiac death

…one defined entirely from the ECG, without echocardiography. They then stress tested the model against multiple outcome definitions and validated it, with no fine tuning…

Sinoatrial block (SA block): ECG criteria, causes and clinical features

…sinoatrial block impulses are blocked sporadically (without any Wenckebach phenomenon). The pauses between the visible beats are always multiples of the normal P P interval …

Acquired QT Prolongation and Drug-Induced Arrhythmia

…when multiple modifiable and non modifiable risk factors converge. The electrophysiological mechanism underlying TdP involves prolonged ventricular repolarisation, which allows for the recovery of time…

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