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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 [..]

A large randomized clinical trial involving over four thousand seven hundred patients from seventy nine centres across nineteen countries has been published in NEJM [Lamy A et al. [..]

Lia Crotti and colleagues along with Peter Schwartz [Calmodulin Mutations Associated With Recurrent Cardiac Arrest in Infants. Circulation. 2013; 127: 1009-1017.] , the pioneer in studies on congenital [..]

Following features may help in thinking of a cardioembolic etiology for stroke: Sudden onset to maximal neurological deficit Decreased level of consciousness at onset Wernicke’s aphasia or global [..]

Ivabradine is a selective inhibitor of the Funny Current (If) or the pacemaker current in the sinoatrial (SA) node. This results in pure heart rate reduction. This can [..]