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Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease: Assessment and Treatment

…Definition and pathophysiology Obesity is a chronic, relapsing and biologically complex disease characterized by excessive accumulation of adipose tissue. It is an important cause of…

🟠 QT Drugs: Drugs causing QT prolongation, torsade de pointes (TdP) and long QT syndrome (LQTS)

…or risk of torsade de pointes in PubMed. GnRH Antagonist Cancer (prostate) Synthetic decapeptide antagonist to gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH). <a href="http://www.ncbi…

Pharmacologic agents in myocardial perfusion imaging

…dipyridamole, regadenoson) These agents exert vasodilatory effects, increasing coronary blood flow by relaxing vascular smooth muscle. They are contraindicated in patients with bronchospastic lung disease…

Ventricular Pressure-Volume Relationship: Preload, Afterload, Stroke Volume, Wall Stress & Frank-Starling's law

…left ventricular pressure. This is explained by the fact that the left ventricle is capable of relaxing and expanding rapidly during diastole. The term compliance…

Cardiac electrophysiology: Action potential, automaticity and vectors

…cells start to contract a few milliseconds after the start of the depolarization and they start relaxing a few milliseconds after the repolarization is completed…

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