…reaction 0.37 Haemodynamic complications 0.26 Cardiac chamber perforation 0.03 Other complications 0.28 Total major complications 1.70 In another large diagnostic…

Myocardial ischemia and infarction Definition and pathophysiology A chronic total occlusion (CTO) is a complete or nearly complete coronary arterial obstruction that has persisted for…

Echocardiography Echocardiographic assessment of regional contractile function Systolic ventricular function is one of the strongest predictors of total and cardiovascular mortality. Previous chapters have discussed…

…assessment of the QT interval (QT duration). The QT duration represents the total time for depolarization and repolarization. It is measured from the beginning of…

…Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published an article titled Hearts too good to die (JAMA, 1961). A total of 500 cases of fatal…

…affects cardiovascular and total mortality. Left bundle branch block is more common in individuals with structural and ischemic heart disease. Assessment of ischemia on ECG…

…the end of the T wave. This interval represents the total time taken to depolarize and repolarize the ventricles ( Figure 1 ). The length of the…

…two occasions establishes a diagnosis of diabetes HbA1c < 42 mmol/mol 42–47 = prediabetes; ≥ 48 = diabetes Total cholesterol < 5.0 mmol…

…whom total brain infarction is not expected to occur within a reasonable time, and in whom death is judged likely within 180 minutes of treatment…

…total osmolality but not in the effective osmolality, because urea crosses cell membranes relatively freely and therefore does not produce the same sustained shift of…

…second part of the course you will learn all about the normal ECG, normal variants and diagnosis of pathological findings. A total of 8 lessons…