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Takayasu arteritis
Takayasu arteritis is an inflammatory disorder affecting aorta and its major branches. It is also known as aortoarteritis and pulseless disease [1]. Arteritis leads to thickening of vessel wall, fibrosis, stenosis and thrombus formation. Severe inflammation may weaken the arterial media and lead to aneurysm formation [2]. Takayasu was an ophthalmologist, who noted characteristic fundal arteriovenous anastomoses in a young female in 1905 and published it in Acta of the Opthalmic Society of Japan in 1908 (12:554–5). Onishi and Kagosha described similar cases associated with absent radial pulses in the same year [1]. ...
Source: Cardiophile MD - April 7, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: Cardiology Source Type: blogs

8 Foods I ’ve Added to My Diet to Enhance My Health
Some nutritionists believe that food is medicine. I’m not sure if I want to go through life taking nothing but chicken soup every time I get sick, but I pay attention to what I put in my mouth and its effects on my body. As a result, I’ve eliminated many products from my meals over the years, but what I gave up, I made up for in healthier additions. Here are eight foods I’ve added to my diet to enhance my health and why. 1. Beets Your thoughts might not turn to this root vegetable until it’s time to make red beet eggs for your next picnic. However, including more of them in your weekly diet could help your...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - March 11, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kara Reynolds Tags: diet featured health and fitness self-improvement food mental health pickthebrain Source Type: blogs

Microfluidics and AI Microscopy for Hemoglobin Measurements
In this study, we demonstrate that the applicability of a system originally designed for the purposes of imaging can be extended towards the performance of biochemical tests without any additional modifications to the hardware unit, thereby retrainin...
Source: Medgadget - February 25, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine Military Medicine Pediatrics Surgery Sigtuple Source Type: blogs

What Can We Expect From 2021: The COVID Perspective
Nearing the end of 2020, we are globally far from seeing the end of the pandemic that ruled (and ruined) 2020. Every day we see hundreds of thousands of new cases of coronavirus infections, with the WHO reporting a record one-day rise, while people have a hard time complying with the strict safety measures again. We are all waiting for this nightmare to stop, but will it ever? How long, ‘till we need to keep masks on and stay away from grandma? After this dystopian 2020, how are we looking at 2021? No one knows for sure. With countries being knee-deep in the second wave, everyone is waiting for the vaccines to put an ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 15, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Forecast Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Science Fiction fake news vaccination covid covid19 pandemic vaccine hoax flu Oxfam COVAX olympics Source Type: blogs

de Winter syndrome
de Winter syndrome was initially described as a new ECG sign of occlusion of proximal left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery by Robbert J de Winter, Niels J W Verouden, Hein J J Wellens and Arthur A M Wilde, Interventional Cardiology Group of the Academic Medical Center, in 2008 as a Letter to the Editor [1]. Instead of the ST segment elevation which is typical of anterior wall infarction which occurs in total occlusion of LAD, they described anterior ST segment depression, in about 2% of cases. An ECG with typical features showing upsloping ST segment depression in anterior leads with tall symmetric T waves and l...
Source: Cardiophile MD - September 7, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: ECG / Electrophysiology de Winter sign LAD total occlusion Source Type: blogs

Diabetes management in CAD : Who is dictating to whom ?
No one would have Imagined a generally Innocuous entity called Diabetes will emerge into a  “single disease sub-speciality” in medicine”. Thanks to the global authorities  & pharma Industry for making this speciality a formidable one. The link between diabetes and cardiology is so strong, now with pharmacological strategies looking for overlapping Indications.   Let me share a presentation in one of the cardiology meet in 2017 at Thiruvananthpuram.TAN CSI meet , India.   Click here for a  PDF version  The days are gone when anti-diabetic drugs were alleged to increase CVD mortality. New...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - August 23, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Diabetes and Heart ada dapa hf Diabetes and cvd risk empaglifozin hba1c sglt in diabetes ukpds Source Type: blogs

Hypoxia and LV dysfunction: Let us learn more from “ COPD, COVID-19 and Tetralogy of Fallot ”
Superficially, tissue hypoxia might look similar to Ischemia but differs in one important aspect. Though the hypoxic myocardium is short of oxygen, the respiratory excreta from cells ie Co2, lactic acid, and free radicles are promptly cleared and flushed as blood flow is normal. Hence, generally acute  Ischemia of tissues is more cell threatening than regional hypoxia at any organ level. How do you classify hypoxia? we need to go to physiology classes again.There are 4 types. Ischemic -Hypoxia, systemic hypoxia, Anemic hypoxia, Histo-toxic hypoxia.A good reference to read (Ošt’ádal B., Kolář F. (1999) Myocardial Hy...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - August 9, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: metabolic support of heart failure anerobic cardiac metabolism copd and lv dysfunction covid heart disease hypoxia and covid lv dysfunction hypoxia vs iscehmia ketone bodies ato heart lv dysfunction in congenital cyanotic heart disease met Source Type: blogs

Planned PCI in high bleeding risk patient: Three forbidden options
Though two stents Onyx one (Medtronic) and Biofreedom(Biosensors) appear promising with rapid endothelisation and hence short DAPT. There are three more options. available in this situation. Option 1 Avoid the endothelium unfriendly DES and use BMS* and use MAPT (Mono or minimal antiplatelet therapy). For the sake of the young generation cardiologists, let me expand BMS,ie Bare metal stents. BMS in 2020 ! What nonsense are you talking about? (For those who ask this question, please try to go through the following study with a conscience) (NORSTENT 2016 -One of the most underrated, deliberately concealed landmark paper in...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - June 13, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized biofreedom vs onyxone bms for high bleeding risk BMS VS DES IN 2020 NORSTENT BASKET PROVE NEJM POBA DEB to reduce bleeding risk Source Type: blogs

Is there an entity called “ Isolated ” systolic pulmonary arterial hypertension ?
What is the incidence of Isolated systolic pulmonary arterial hypertension (ISPAH) and its Implication? We attempted to answer this question and found some interesting answers. It was published in the Indian heart journal  December 2007 Abstract issue. More than a decade gone. I think this issue is still largely misunderstood. Fellows may pursue this. One more parameter that can be explored is pulmonary artery pulse pressure and effect on progressive pulmonary vascular disease and PVR. Mean while  PAH definition and classification has changed many times, ISPAH definitely requires a place in the new scheme of things. The ...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - May 15, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Pulmonary arterial hypertension Pulmonary circulation Pulmonary vascular resistance Thesis/Research topics for cardiology fellows isolated pulmonary arterial hypertension ispah normal pulmoanry arterial pressure pulmonary hypertension syst Source Type: blogs

DM Cardiology seats from MCI website 2020
This list is based on the site accessed on 1st May 2020. Please check MCI site from the link above for the up to date information. The information given here is only for general guidance of the potential DM Cardiology aspirants. Total DM Cardiology seats : 406 Total number of colleges offering DM Cardiology course : 104 Institutions having more than 10 seats of DM Cardiology are the following: AIIMS New Delhi: 25, Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology, Bangalore: 21, PGI Chandigarh: 16, Madras Medical College, Chennai: 14, B J Medical College, Ahmedabad: 12, SMS Medical College, Jaipur: 12 Full list of colleges and number ...
Source: Cardiophile MD - May 1, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: Cardiology Source Type: blogs

Can The Tablighi Jamaat ’s Conference be India’s Own Epidemiological Diamond Princess?
By SOMALARAM VENKATESH, MD “It has always been science versus fundamentalism, not science versus religion.” Abhijit Naskar, Biopsy of Religions: Neuroanalysis Towards Universal Tolerance On February 3, 2020, the luxury cruise ship Diamond Princess docked on Japanese shores and was promptly quarantined with 3711 people on board, because a passenger who had disembarked at Hong Kong two days earlier had tested positive for SARS-Cov-2,  or also known as  COVID-19. Passengers & crew members were either repatriated or hospitalized in Japan over the next 4 weeks. In total,, more than 700 of them were ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 30, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Diamond Princess India Somalaram Venkatesh Tablighi Jamat Source Type: blogs

Mitral isthmus – Cardiology MCQ – Answer
Mitral isthmus – Cardiology MCQ – Answer Mitral isthmus, often targeted during ablation of atrial fibrillation is between the mitral valve and – Correct answer: a) Left inferior pulmonary vein It is a narrow isthmus of myocardium between the lateral mitral annulus and the left inferior pulmonary vein [1]. It was first described by Luria DM et al 2001 during left accessory pathway ablation [2]. It was considered to be analogous to the cavotricuspid isthmus in the right atrium which is targeted for atrial flutter ablation. Feasibility and safety of ablation of the isthmus for atrial fibrillation was fi...
Source: Cardiophile MD - April 15, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: Cardiology MCQ DM / DNB Cardiology Entrance Source Type: blogs

BiWaze Cough System Receives FDA Clearance to Help Clear Secretions
ABM Respiratory Care, a company with offices in USA, Singapore, and India, announced that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance to market its BiWaze Cough System, a device for removing secretions in patients who are unable to cough or clear secretions...
Source: Medgadget - April 2, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Cici Zhou Tags: Cardiology Medicine Neurology Pediatrics Source Type: blogs

India ’s COVID Conundrum: To Lockdown or Not to Lockdown
By SOMALARAM VENKATESH, MD  In “Asterix and the Roman Agent”, Julius Caesar deploys Tortuous Convolvulus to cause internal conflict among the Indomitable Gauls. Until then, the only fights the peaceful Gaulish village witnessed were between Unhygienix, the fishmonger and Fulliautomatix, the village smith. The Gauls always stood united against the Roman army and in spite of the occasional free-for-all, would always come together at the end for a boisterous feast.  In the new millennium, India – like many other countries – has exhibited deep fault lines circumscribing hardened ideologies. It i...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 2, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy lockdown Source Type: blogs

Why the human heart thrives with exercise
How did the human heart adapt during our evolution as a species? To explore that question, Harvard cardiologist Dr. Aaron Baggish led a unique study that compared the hearts of African great apes, Mexican farmers, and American athletes. But the findings also have a practical message. “They reinforce the importance of regular brisk walking or jogging throughout life to stay healthy as you age,” says Dr. Baggish, director of the cardiac performance lab at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital. The study included great apes (gorillas and chimpanzees) and four different groups of men: inactive men, endurance ru...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 17, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Julie Corliss Tags: Exercise and Fitness Health Heart Health Men's Health Source Type: blogs

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