Category Archives: General

Morten Olsen and colleagues from the Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark report on the association of congenital heart disease with developmental and psychiatric disorders [Congenital [..]

Nesiritide (exogenous atrial type natriuretic peptide; ANP) and carperitide (exogenous B-type natriuretic peptide; BNP) activate guanylyl cyclase A (GC-A) which result in the formation of cyclic GMP (cGMP). Guanylyl cyclase B (GC-B) [..]

Isolated reversible perfusion defects can occur in the inter ventricular septum with nuclear cardiology imaging in left bundle branch block (LBBB). It is partly due to the heterogeneity [..]

W. Bruce Fye in an article in today’s Circulation is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the coronary care unit (CCU) concept [Resuscitating a Circulation Abstract to Celebrate the [..]

Reynolds risk score was derived in a cohort of twenty five thousand healthy women from the United States [Ridker PM, Buring JE, Rifai N, Cook NR. Development and [..]

HDL (high density lipoprotein cholesterol) less than 40 milligrams per deciliter in males and less than 50 milligrams per deciliter in females, can be considered to confer risk [..]

It is well known that the chance of coronary artery disease increases with age. When age is considered as a risk factor for coronary artery disease (CAD), more [..]

Number of cigarettes in a pack is taken as twenty. If a person has been smoking one pack per year for five years, it is taken as five [..]

Phelebotomy is often resorted to in patients with cyanotic congenital heart disease and symptoms of hyperviscosity due polycythemia which occurs in response to hypoxia which causes an increased [..]

PML (posterior mitral leaflet) prolapse is often that of the middle scallop and is much more amenable to repair than that of the AML (anterior mitral leaflet).