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TRITON-TIMI 38 trial [NEJM 357: 2001-2015, 2007] compared prasugrel with clopidogrel in around thirteen thousand six hundred patients with acute coronary syndrome [unstable angina, ST segment elevation myocardial [..]

Higher plasma levels of neutrophil elastase and markedly activated neutrophils have been associated with poor response to intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) and coronary artery lesions in Kawasaki disease. Ulinastatin, [..]

European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE) has been developed to assess the risk of patients undergoing cardiac surgery. There is a simple additive scoring system and [..]

Beating heart transplantation or ‘Heart in the box” is a new technology being perfected by UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) Health System which keeps the donor heart [..]

Framingham risk score is widely used score for prediction of coronary artery disease. This score incorporates various risk fators like age, gender, levels of total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein [..]

Selvan JP and colleagues have recently published the long term follow up data of patients operated early in life for persistent truncus arteriosus [Long-Term Follow-Up of Persistent Truncus [..]

Nodule of Arantius is the thickened nodule at the centre of the line of coaptation of aortic valve leaflets

Conventional wisdom says that intravenous calcium should be avoided in digitoxicity. A recent retrospective analysis assessed this aspect. Digoxin being a sodium-potassium ATPase inhibitor, digoxin overdose can be [..]

Internal mammary artery harvesting is associated with reduced sternal perfusion and higher deep sternal wound infections, especially with bilateral internal mammary artery grafts and in diabetics. Reduced sternal [..]

The coronary risk comes down by fifty percent one year after smoking cessation. The risk for developing coronary artery disease approaches that of non smokers three to five [..]