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Digital medical imaging has progressed immensely in recent years, providing the opportunity to store images in a picture archiving and communications system (PACS) and eliminating the need for film storage. Images can be viewed simultaneously in many monitors during or after the radiological technique, enabling more accurate and efficient treatment of the patient. The result is acceleration of…
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Electrocardiograms (ECGs), derived by the transformation of three bipolar quasi-orthogonal leads, have according to EASI lead ECG been introduced for many years for use in emergency situations and for the monitoring of patients during the acute phase of myocardial infarction. Theoretically, a further reduction and simplification of the classic EASI setting of five electrodes may even improve…
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Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most common cause of morbidity and premature mortality globally,1 and cardiac autonomic dysfunction is one of the risk factors for CAD.2 Heart rate variability (HRV) is the physiological phenomenon of variation in the time interval between heartbeats and is one of the most promising non-invasive diagnostic methods for assessing autonomic dysfunction.
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Utility of CTCA in CTO PCI
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“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” Sir Isaac Newton
Advances in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention – An Overview
Over the last 10 years, the…
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Coronary artery ectasia (CAE) is a relatively common entity causing inappropriate dilatation of the coronary vasculature. The exact mechanism of its development is unknown, but evidence suggests a combination of genetic predisposition, common risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD) and abnormal vessel wall metabolism. It frequently co-exists with aneurysms elsewhere, mostly involving the…
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Some cardiovascular (CV) risk-prone patients are easy to recognise, for example following manifestations of cardiovascular disease (CVD), coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) or percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) interventions, and they deserve appropriate risk-factor control for secondary prevention, including blood pressure (BP) lowering. However, many other at-risk patients…
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Echocardiography is the most widely used non-invasive imaging method in cardiology worldwide. Several reasons justify its success, the most important being its ability to answer easily and repeatedly the pertinent clinical questions posed every day by clinicians about their patients. In addition, it has accommodated itself to the continuous technological and scientific developments of the last…
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Coronary stenting is a percutaneous procedure intended to regain coronary artery patency overcoming the major limitations of balloon angioplasty: acute recoil and negative vessel remodelling.1–3 The first contemporary balloon-expandable stent was the Palmaz, immediately followed by an articulated variant known as the Palmaz-Schatz, the first stent to be tested in large multicentre trials (the…
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Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death in most countries. It is also a major cause of physical disability, particularly in the rapidly growing population of elderly people. The prevention of subsequent coronary events and the maintenance of physical functioning in such patients are major challenges in preventative care.
Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programmes were first…
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