Category Archives: General

Loeffler’s endocarditis

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Johnson Francis | Permalink Comments Off

Loeffler’s endocarditis was described by Wilhelm Loffler in 1936 [Loffler W. Endocarditis parietalis fibroplastica mit Bluteosinophilie. Ein eigenartiges Krankheitsbild. Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift, Basel, 1936, 66: 817-820] with eosinophilic [..]

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Sinus of Valsalva aneurysm

Posted on December 25, 2011 by Johnson Francis | Permalink Comments Off

Sinus of Valsalva aneurysms are clinically silent unless they produce symptoms due to compression of adjacent structures or rupture causing an abnormal track of blood flow. Usually they [..]

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Cor triatriatum sinister and dexter

Posted on December 25, 2011 by Johnson Francis | Permalink Comments Off

Cor triatriatum can be either cor triatriatum dexter or cor triatriatum sinister. Usually we mean cor triatriatum sinister when we say just cor triatriatum. Cor triatriatum means a [..]

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Ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Johnson Francis | Permalink Comments Off

It is well known that blood pressure of an individual can wary widely at various times of the day. There is also a so called “white coat effect” [..]

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dal-PLAQUE: phase 2b study of dalcetrapib which increases HDL cholesterol

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Johnson Francis | Permalink Comments Off

Initial studies of increasing HDL cholesterol with cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) inhibitor torcetrapib were a failure and further development of the molecule was halted. Now another CETP [..]

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