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Author(s): Mary N Sheppard Added: 3 years ago
Takotsubo syndrome is an acute reversible heart failure syndrome, which is increasingly recognised by coronary angiography for patients with acute ‘cardiac’ chest pain.1 It is a distinct disease entity from acute coronary syndrome, although the initial presentation has similar features to either ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) or non-ST elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI). Early… View more

Heart Failure

Pericardium Disorders
Author(s): Ioannis Iakovou Added: 3 years ago
Stent thrombosis (ST) is the sudden occlusion of a stented coronary artery due to thrombus formation. The clinical consequences of ST are frequently catastrophic – most episodes occur within two weeks of stent implantation – and include death in 20–48% or major myocardial infarction (MI) in 60–70% of cases.1–3 When bare-metal stents (BMS) were first introduced, ST was a common complication… View more

Anticoagulation

Intervention
Author(s): Alan S Katz Added: 3 years ago
Computed tomography (CT) of the heart combines X-ray images with the aid of a computer to generate cross-sectional views of the body. Cardiac CT uses advanced CT technology with or without intravenous contrast dye to visualise cardiac anatomy, coronary circulation, and the great vessels. Cardiac CT is especially useful in evaluating the myocardium, coronary arteries, pulmonary veins, thoracic… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics
Author(s): Reginald Liew Added: 3 years ago
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) can be defined as unexpected death that occurs within one hour of the onset of symptoms or during sleep in a person who was previously stable. The mode of death, which may be due to an arrhythmic or non-arrhythmic cause, depends on the underlying cardiovascular abnormality (mechanical or electrical substrate). SCD remains a major public health problem worldwide and is… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics
Author(s): Konstantinos Bratis Added: 3 years ago
Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is an acute, profound, but reversible heart failure syndrome, usually but not always triggered by physical or emotional stress. To date, the exact pathogenic mechanism of this syndrome remains unclear; however, several hypotheses involving vascular mechanisms (i.e. abnormal coronary epicardial or microvascular vasoreactivity),1-3 endocrine and gender-related mechanisms (i… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

Heart Failure
Sudden Cardiac Death in Athletes
Author(s): Andrew D’Silva , Michael Papadakis Added: 3 years ago
The evidence supporting the beneficial effects of physical activity on health is compelling. Regular exercise reduces cardiovascular mortality by 35 % and all-cause mortality by 33 %1 and confers an average of 7 years greater longevity.2 Most professional athletes, however, undertake doses of exercise that far exceed those recommended by the current evidence, which has been adopted by national… View more

Heart Failure

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Author(s): Prabhakar Rajiah , Milind Y Desai Added: 3 years ago
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become an important non-invasive imaging modality in the evaluation of cardiovascular diseases because of advances in scanner hardware, coil technology, parallel-imaging techniques and MRI sequences, all of which facilitate the rapid acquisition of high-quality images. Several scientific studies validated the use of MRI in cardiovascular diseases and showed… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

Heart Failure
Author(s): Sofie Moreels , Steven Dymarkowski , Serge De Ridder Added: 3 years ago
A 65-year-old male patient was referred to our outpatient clinic for cardiac evaluation because of an asymptomatic continuous murmur. Four years ago, a grade 2/6 systolic cardiac murmur had been coincidentally detected, but it had not been investigated so far. The patient was completely asymptomatic. There was no relevant past medical history or significant family history. His cardiovascular risk… View more

Heterogeneous Populations
Optical Coherence Tomography For the Detection of the Vulnerable Plaque
Author(s): Konstantinos Toutouzas , Antonios Karanasos , Dimitris Tousoulis Added: 3 years ago
Acute coronary syndromes (ACS) comprise a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The almost-exclusive cause of ACS, including unstable angina, acute myocardial infarction (AMI) with or without ST-segment elevation, and sudden cardiac death, is atherothrombosis. Pilot pathological studies have identified the pathophysiological processes implicated in the destabilisation and thrombosis of… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Author(s): Sophie Mavrogeni , George Markousis-Mavrogenis , Genovefa Kolovou Added: 3 years ago
Systemic means ‘pertaining to or affecting the whole body’ as opposed to a localised condition. A systemic disease is one that affects a number of organs and tissues, or the body as a whole. Systemic diseases, according to WHO classification,1 and cardiac diseases that developed during their course, are listed in Table 1. Download original Thyroid diseases, pheochromocytoma and growth hormone… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

Heart Failure