Complications of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Mauro Moscucci, MD, MBA Advancements in technology have led to a significant increase in the safety of invasive diagnostic and therapeutic cardiovascular procedures. However, the…
Integrated Imaging Modalities in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Michael S. Kim, MD Robert A. Quaife, MD INTRODUCTION Over the last decade, there has been an exponential growth in the number…
Atherosclerotic cardiovascular (CV) disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and is responsible for more than 50% of all the deaths in the United States and other Western…
Definition For adults, the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7 Report, 2003) has recommended the following classification…
Definition When measured directly in the cardiac catheterization laboratory, the normal pulmonary artery (PA) systolic pressure of children and adults is 30 mm Hg or below, and the mean PA…
TABLE D-7 LEFT VENTRICULAR MASS AND LEFT VENTRICULAR MASS INDEX BY M-MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY Boys Age Left Ventricular Mass (g) Age Left Ventricular Mass Index (g/m 2.7 ) 50th Percentile 90th…
Definition Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a clinical syndrome in which the heart is unable to pump enough blood to the body to meet its needs, to dispose of systemic…
Competitive athletes are those who participate in an organized team or individual sport that requires regular competition against others. This definition is most easily applied to high school, college, and…
Lower and Shumway at Stanford University performed the first successful orthotopic heart transplantation in a dog in 1960. Barnard in South Africa unexpectedly performed the first successful human heart transplantation…
