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ACE Inhibitors: Initiation, Titration and Creatinine Monitoring

…and potassium should be evaluated within 1 to 2 weeks after initiation of ACE inhibitors, especially in patients with preexisting azotemia, hypotension, hyponatremia, diabetes mellitus…

Atrial Fibrillation in the Critically Ill Patient

…evidence of coronary ischaemia. These findings determine the urgency and type of intervention. The assessment should also clarify: Whether AF is pre existing, newly detected…

Noradrenaline, Dobutamine and Levosimendan: Practical Infusion Use

…Furthermore, acute heart failure and cardiogenic shock can present de novo in pregnant women without pre existing heart disease, such as in peripartum cardiomyopathy, or…

Preeclampsia and Hypertensive Pregnancy Disorders as Future Cardiovascular Risk

Cardiology Clinical medicine Definition and clinical classification Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy comprise chronic or pre existing hypertension, gestational hypertension, and preeclampsia. Collectively, they affect approximately…

Acquired QT Prolongation and Drug-Induced Arrhythmia

…constitutes a major clinical problem. It can manifest as an increase in the frequency of a pre existing arrhythmia, the sustenance of a previously non…

ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock

…hypertension, and pulmonary congestion. Hemodynamic deterioration is more likely with larger infarcts, anterior infarction, advanced age, delayed or unsuccessful revascularization, and pre existing diabetes, previous…

ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Diagnosis and ECG Criteria

…right ventricular involvement Pre existing abnormalities such as prior infarction, left bundle branch block, Wolff–Parkinson–White patterns or ventricular pacing STEMI and non ST…

Statin Intolerance and Statin-Associated Muscle Symptoms

…This discrepancy reflects, at least in part, the nocebo effect : negative expectations, contextual cues and attribution of pre existing symptoms to the medication. No single…

🟠 Drug-Induced Cardiotoxicity

…no no INFED IRON DEXTRAN IRON DEXTRAN Mixed ar less patients with pre existing cardiovascular disease/cardiac arrest Solu Cortef HYDROCORTISONE SODIUM SUCCINATE HYDROCORTISONE SODIUM…

Contrast-Associated Acute Kidney Injury: Risk Assessment and Prevention

…disturbance and ischaemia; pre existing or concurrent hypovolaemia; cardiac dysfunction or haemodynamic instability; and additional nephrotoxic exposures. The typical biochemical pattern is a rise in…

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