…or therapeutic benefit against the patient’s specific procedural risks. Vascular access and access site complications Radial and femoral access Radial access is generally preferred…

…referred to as primary hypertension . Essential hypertension is defined as hypertension without an identifiable underlying cause. Researchers previously believed that this form of hypertension was…

…slurring or notching at the J point. A notch at the J point is actually a J wave. The term “early repolarization” was used to…

…acceptance was delayed, partly due to autopsy studies demonstrating an absence of coronary thrombi in a significant proportion of deceased patients. Historically referred to as…

…to their clinical presentation, these patients are immediately referred to angiography but no coronary artery occlusion can be identified. Injection of contrast media into the…

…several studies have shown that the majority of patients inappropriately referred to the catheterization laboratory with suspicion of STEMI (STE ACS) have left bundle branch…

…should be amenable to reversal. The indication is stronger in younger individuals. Individual patient circumstances and clinical judgment are paramount in determining the appropriateness and…

…Nevertheless, cardiac troponin (T or I) has almost 100% specificity for myocardial cells and is the preferred biomarker according to North American (ACC, AHA) and…

…the ST segment bulges upwards (Figure 1 and 2) in these leads. These ECG changes were previously referred to as strain pattern because it was…

…fibrillation or sudden cardiac arrest is referred to as early repolarization syndrome . Early repolarization pattern may actually not be due to early repolarization The term…