Author Archives: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin

Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) are life saving devices used for treatment of life threatening ventricular arrhythmias and averting sudden cardiac death. Some of the rare adverse events which [..]

Functional mitral regurgitation (FMR) occurs due to non-coaptation of mitral leaflets in the setting of left ventricular dilatation. It can occur in cardiomyopathies of both ischemic and idiopathic [..]

90.7% freedom from recurrent severe mitral regurgitation was documented at twenty years after mitral valve repair in a study by David TE et al [Late outcomes of mitral [..]

Radiation associated heart disease is more noted in survivors of breast cancer and Hodgkin’s disease who had undergone radiotherapy with incidental radiation to the heart. The risk is [..]

Mandawat A and colleagues [Safety of Pacemaker Implantation in Nonagenarians. An Analysis of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project-Nationwide Inpatient Sample. Circulation. 2013;127:1453-1465.] retrospectively analyzed the data of [..]

J. Matthew Brennan and associates from Duke Clinical Research Institute [Long-Term Safety and Effectiveness of Mechanical versus Biologic Aortic Valve Prostheses in Older Patients: Results from the Society [..]