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Cardiology Update 2020
Date: Sunday, 15th March, 2020 Venue: Baby Memorial Hospital, Kozhikode, Kerala, India Open to all modern medical doctors with interest in Cardiology. Registration free. Watch out for the second communication with detailed program schedule.
Source: Cardiophile MD - February 19, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: Cardiology Source Type: blogs

Pericardial effusion associated with Infective Endocarditis : Incidence , mechansim and clinical Implication.
Pericardial effusion is often detected in patients with Infective endocarditis. Incidence can be as high as 25% . Most often it is mild, can be moderate in few. Mechanism Sympathetic effusion in response to endocardial infection. It’s never more than minimal. (Evidence ? it’s only an assumption) IE related cardiac failure (Raised systemic venous pressure to which pericardial veins drain) Local sepsis, Abcess formation tracks to pericardial space through transmural lymphatics Fungal , granulomatous , Tuberculous IE (Rare) Here IE and PE  share the same pathology Part of systemic sepsis activated Immune mechan...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - January 28, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: cardiology -Therapeutics Cardiology -unresolved questions Infrequently asked questions in cardiology (iFAQs) pericardial disease pericardial effusion Pericardium infective endocarditis pericardial effusion in infective endocarditis Source Type: blogs

Pricardial effusion associated with Infective Endocarditis : Incidence , mechansim and clinical Implication.
Pericardial effusion is often detected in patients with Infective endocarditis. Incidence can be as high as 25% . Most often it is mild, can be moderate in few. Mechanism Sympathetic effusion in response to endocardial infection. It’s never more than minimal. (Evidence ? it’s only an assumption) IE related cardiac failure (Raised systemic venous pressure to which pericardial veins drain) Local sepsis, Abcess formation tracks to pericardial space through transmural lymphatics Fungal , granulomatous , Tuberculous IE (Rare) Here IE and PE  share the same pathology Part of systemic sepsis activated Immune mechan...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - January 28, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: cardiology -Therapeutics Cardiology -unresolved questions Infrequently asked questions in cardiology (iFAQs) pericardial disease pericardial effusion Pericardium infective endocarditis pericardial effusion in infective endocarditis Source Type: blogs

Ischemic cardiomyopathy: Why is it, still searching for a definition?
The term Ischemic cardiomyopathy(ICM)  was originally coined by Dr. Burch from Tulane University, New Orleans, USA in 1970. For many decades there was skepticism regarding the existence of such entity. WHO classification over the years never included this term. ESC working group of 2008  (Elliott P,  European Heart 29(2):270–276) decided not to include CAD as a cause for cardiomyopathy. Even the current MOGES system doesn’t invoke CAD as a cause for cardiomyopathy.  But, I am sure, most of practicing cardiologists would agree, there is a need for such an entity. Why there is much reluctance to diagnose Ische...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - September 21, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Criteria and Nomenclature ischemic cardiomyopathy Uncategorized defintion of ischemic cardiomyopathy MOGES classification what is ischemic cardiomyopathy who whf classification of cardiomyopathy Source Type: blogs

Doctors Perform First Minimally Invasive Remote Robotic Cardiac Procedure
Clinicians in India have teamed up to demonstrate the feasibility of having a physician remotely perform percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures. Using the CorPath GRX, an FDA cleared cath lab robot that lets physicians stay away from the...
Source: Medgadget - September 6, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiology Radiology Source Type: blogs

Was the past perfect ? I don ’ t know, but the future looks tense … welcome on-board, to automated ACS management.
Charles river esplanade ,Boston* : A healthy middle-aged man who was jogging quietly, while his heart was under intense scrutiny by the bionic eyes of Apple i-watch’s smart patch electrode. Suddenly, it detected some bizarre ST segment fragmentation (Seems it can predict in advance , Ischemic signals 10 minutes prior to onset of ACS ) The built-in cosmos direct GPS instantly alerted & summoned a titanium powered Space X drone that pulled the patient from the riverside to the nearest human wellness port . It dropped him through a remotely accessed split glass roof right inside the hybrid heart lab, to find , men ...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - June 23, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: acute coroanry syndrome Clinical cardiology Ethics in Medicine Hippocratic oath history of cardiology Histroy of medicine Left main disease Medical ethics Primary PCI Source Type: blogs

Meril Myval Transcatheter Aortic Valve Cleared in Europe
Meril Life Sciences, a company based in India, has obtained the European CE mark of approval for its Myval transcatheter aortic heart valve. This marks the first such approval for an Indian company, highlighting how far the country’s medical de...
Source: Medgadget - June 11, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Source Type: blogs

Master health musings : Where did Alexander the Great, checked his LDL and Chenghis khan recorded his BP ?
A middle-aged man a Biotech engineer, who is just back from his annual health check, sitting in front of me with a deeply anguished face and said “Doctor my LDL is 130mg, and my diastolic BP is 90 mmHg and fasting sugar is 120 mg .I am very much worried about my future” Wait , let me go through your file, I said , Isn’t a serious Issue doctor? No, its not , But , doctor, I have read about ASCOT, SPRINT and HOPE-3 trials. I guess they tell us to keep the LDL, blood sugar and diastolic BP all these three parameters around 80. Isn’t doctor? He went on to add, that his old fashioned family physician ha...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - June 2, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized master health check up in cardiology preventive health care Source Type: blogs

Economics Lessons from the Subcontinent: India ’s Coronary Stent Policy
This article originally appeared here on The Accad & Koka Report. Stent image courtesy Jack McLure via Wikimedia Commons
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 1, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Anish Koka coronary stent prices health economics India Source Type: blogs

First Cardiac Contractility Modulation Device Approved by FDA
Most cardiac implants, such as pacemakers and AICDs, are designed to correct the underlying heart’s rhythm, and synchronize atrial and ventricular contractions. That’s how these devices can improve cardiac performance in people with heart fai...
Source: Medgadget - March 22, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Source Type: blogs

Coronary Stent Price Control in India: Two Years and Counting
By SOMALARAM VENKATESH MD With a stated intent of bringing social justice and financial relief to hundreds of thousands of patients undergoing coronary angioplasty in the country every year, the Government of India capped the sale price of coronary stents in Feb 2017. Stent prices fell by as much as 80% with this populist move, seen as anti-trade within the industry circles. It is tempting for a practising interventional cardiologist to look at two years of this government control on medical device prices in a market economy. Before price-capping, angioplasty patients were indeed getting a raw deal. There was no uniformity...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 4, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Physicians cardiology coronary stent prices India Somalaram Venkatesh Source Type: blogs

Philips HealthWorks Supports Startups Using AI for Radiology, Ultrasound, and Oncology: Interview
In Philips innovation hubs located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Eindhover, Netherlands, Bangalore, India, and Shanghai, China, 19 startups out of 750 applicants are taking part in an intensive, 12-week Philips HealthWorks program to accelerate their ...
Source: Medgadget - December 19, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Michael Batista Tags: Exclusive Informatics Medicine Net News Oncology Radiology Society Source Type: blogs

What we can learn from the tragic deaths of CEOs
An excerpt from Dead Execs Don’t Get Bonuse$: The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Your Career With a Healthy Heart.  The details of the careers and tragic deaths of these CEOs are a matter of public record, and the disruption that followed their deaths was enormous. Take Ranjan Das, for example. At age forty-two, he was the regional CEO of SAP for the Indian subcontinent and the youngest CEO of a multinational corporation in India. He was returning home after using the corporate gym when he suffered a fatal cardiac arrest. Das was known for his healthy diet and exercise habits. He had finished a marathon just months be...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 26, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/joel-kahn" rel="tag" > Joel Kahn, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Cardiology Source Type: blogs

Left main coronary artery disease on ECG
Left main coronary artery disease on ECG ST segment elevation in aVR and diffuse ST segment depression in inferior and anterolateral leads is considered a feature of significant left main coronary artery disease. The ECG shown above, there is ST segment elevation in aVR and V1 along with ST depression in inferior and lateral leads. ST elevation in aVR more than that in V1 is also suggestive of left main disease. In a study comparing acute obstruction of left main, left anterior descending (LAD) and right coronary (RCA) occlusions, aVR ST elevation of more than 0.05 mV was noted in 88% of left main (LMCA) obstruction, 43% ...
Source: Cardiophile MD - September 21, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: ECG / Electrophysiology ECG Library Source Type: blogs

Idiopathic Ventricular Tachycardias for the EM Physician
Written by Pendell Meyers, reviewed by Steve Smith and Scott Weingart“Idiopathic ventricular tachycardias” refer to a group of tachydysrhythmias originating below the AV node and bundle of His but differing in etiology, prognosis, and treatment compared to classic ventricular tachycardia (VT). The name “idiopathic” is becoming more and more inappropriate, as various specific subgroups and specific etiologies are being discovered, including right ventricular outflow tract VT, fascicular VT, and bundle branch reentrant VT. To understand these entities one must first understand the differences between classic VT and i...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - September 14, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs

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