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Peripheral Artery Disease: Diagnosis, Ankle–Brachial Index and Risk Management

…Asymptomatic and atypical disease Fewer than half of patients with PAD have typical symptoms. Many have impaired walking or a slow gait without describing classic…

Acute Limb Ischaemia: Recognition and Urgent Management

…ischaemia (ALI) is an abrupt reduction in arterial perfusion of an upper or lower limb that causes tissue metabolic requirements to exceed available blood flow…

The T-wave: physiology, variants and ECG features

… However, T wave inversions that are accompanied by ST segment deviation (either depression or elevation) is representative of ischemia (but in that scenario, it is…

ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock

…abrupt reduction in coronary blood flow caused by thrombotic occlusion of a previously atherosclerotic artery. Plaque erosion or rupture exposes thrombogenic material to circulating blood…

ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Diagnosis and Electrocardiographic Criteria

…unexplained drop in arterial pressure. Silent or unrecognized infarction occurs more often in patients without antecedent angina and in those with diabetes and hypertension. Of

The left ventricle in myocardial ischemia and infarction

…also supplies the inferior left ventricular wall in over 90% of all individuals. Hence, a proximal occlusion (in the RCA) which cuts off blood flow…

STEMI (ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction): Diagnosis, ECG, Criteria, and Management

…involve partial occlusions, resulting in subendocardial ischemia and comparatively milder symptoms. For the same reason, patients with STEMI are at higher risk of life threatening…

ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Diagnosis and ECG Criteria

…in people with diabetes and becomes more common with advancing age. Presentations without pain may include: Sudden breathlessness Syncope or sudden loss of consciousness Confusion…

Atrial fibrillation: ECG, classification, causes, risk factors & management

…limbs or other organs. However, the increased risk in mortality is not completely explained by the increased risk of stroke; people with atrial fibrillation are…

Alcohol and Cardiovascular Disease

…heavy consumption is associated with hypertension, coronary artery disease, arrhythmias, heart failure and alcohol related cardiomyopathy. The cardiovascular implications of lower alcohol intake remain controversial…

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