…tolerated guideline directed therapy, or when recurrent cardiovascular events occur despite such treatment. The trials did not establish a mortality benefit. Consequently, the decision to…

…and the commonest complication of ear syringing is that someone syringes an ear that did not need syringing. The second commonest is that the syringing…

…negative T waves) do not affect the management of cardiac arrest. Recurrent VT or VF after ROSC in a patient with a coronary risk profile…

…systemic steroid given early [2,3]. Grading Grade the severity by the most serious finding. A patient does not have to meet every criterion in…

…arrest. The constraint does not lie in therapy: implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) are highly effective, terminating well over 99% of the ventricular arrhythmias they detect…

…1000 patient years, compared with 15.0 per 1000 patient years in age matched controls without autoimmune disease. The greatest risks were reported with systemic…

…in the fifth decade of life in several family members. Imaging studies did not reveal structural cardiac abnormalities, nor coronary artery disease. Another male patient…

…When did the patient first note the symptoms and how have the symptoms developed over time? In stable ischemic heart disease, symptoms are typically not…

…did not eliminate it. Angiographic restenosis—defined in the source material as follow up diameter stenosis greater than 50%—occurred in 20–30% of patients…

…earlier than normal in these patients. However, it is still unknown whether that is actually the case; i.e repolarization may actually not start earlier…