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Evaluation of exercise stress test: ECG, symptoms, blood pressure, heart rate, performance

…of the parameters that must be evaluated and the final result of the test depends on an integrated assessment of six components: Symptoms Exercise performance…

Edrophonium test

…ECG monitoring and access to airway support. Indications Clinically suspected myasthenia gravis in a patient with clear, objectively verifiable fatigable symptoms. Assessment of whether residual…

Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: Diagnosis and Treatment

…are elevated. The syndrome is therefore defined by symptoms and signs of congestion or impaired cardiac performance rather than by ejection fraction alone. Heart failure…

Digoxin: Dosing, Therapeutic Range and Toxicity Management

…the His Purkinje system and ventricular muscle are minimal, except in cases of toxic concentrations. In most patients, the sinus rate and P wave duration…

Statin Intolerance and Statin-Associated Muscle Symptoms

…who report intolerance can ultimately take some form of statin therapy after systematic reassessment and rechallenge. The principal manifestation is statin associated muscle symptoms (SAMS)…

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

…Cardiogenic shock. Complete transection of a papillary muscle may cause immediately overwhelming MR. Partial rupture, often involving the tip or head of the muscle, more…

Reduction of dislocations

…to a prosthesis) — a high risk of avascular necrosis of the femoral head and of vascular injury; always an orthopaedic surgeon, and usually general anaesthesia…

Cardiac troponin I (TnI) and T (TnT): Interpretation and evaluation in acute coronary syndromes

…are cardiac specific isoforms of troponin and these are abbreviated cTnI, cTnT, and cTnC. The isoforms cTnI and cTnT are specific to cardiac muscle cells…

Anthropometric measurements

…BMI of 23 and obesity from 27.5, because cardiometabolic risk appears at a lower BMI. BMI is misleading in athletes with a large muscle…

Renal parameters

…C based eGFR With an atypical muscle mass, or to confirm a creatinine based value The mean of creatinine and cystatin C The most reliable…

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