Online Test Series 90
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Source: Cardiophile MD - June 30, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin Tags: Cardiology MCQ DM / DNB Cardiology Entrance Source Type: blogs

Cardiology MCQ Test 2
Cardiology MCQ Online 2 Time limit: 0 Quiz-summary 0 of 15 questions completed Questions: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 You are welcome to try this MCQ set and share it among your friends. Answer key with explanation appears after you complete the test and submit it and press on the view questions button. We strongly advise you to verify the answers with standard text books. You have already completed ...
Source: Cardiophile MD - June 5, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin Tags: Cardiology MCQ Source Type: blogs

Cardiology MCQ Online 2
Time limit: 0 Quiz-summary 0 of 15 questions completed Questions: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 You are welcome to try this Cardiology MCQ set and share it among your friends. We strongly advise you to verify the answers with standard text books. After completion of test, please send your score for display through the test system so that you can assess your performance compared to other users. You have ...
Source: Cardiophile MD - June 5, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin Tags: Cardiology MCQ Source Type: blogs

Cardiology MCQ Test 1
Cardiology MCQ Online 1 Time limit: 0 Quiz-summary 0 of 15 questions completed Questions: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 You are welcome to try this MCQ set and share it among your friends. Answer key with explanation appears after you complete the test and submit it and press on the view questions button. We strongly advise you to verify the answers with standard text books. You have already completed ...
Source: Cardiophile MD - June 3, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin Tags: Cardiology MCQ Source Type: blogs

Cardiology MCQ Online 1
Time limit: 0 Quiz-summary 0 of 15 questions completed Questions: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 You are welcome to try this Cardiology MCQ set and share it among your friends. We strongly advise you to verify the answers with standard text books. After completion of test, please send your score for display through the test system so that you can assess your performance compared to other users. You have ...
Source: Cardiophile MD - June 3, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin Tags: Cardiology MCQ Source Type: blogs

Athletes With Defibrillators Don’t Need To Quit Sports
Although the American College of Cardiology and the European Society of Cardiology now advise people with ICDs not to participate in vigorous sports, a new study offers strong support for people with ICDs who want to take part in sports. Although a large number of people with ICDs are elderly heart failure patients who are unlikely to want to participate in sports, ICDs are also implanted in young and otherwise healthy people with genetic diseases that leave them at high risk for lethal arrhythmias. Now findings from the ICD Sports Safety Registry, published in Circulation, provide vital new More… (Source: CardioBrief)
Source: CardioBrief - May 21, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Larry Husten Tags: Heart Rhythms Policy & Ethics Prevention, Epidemiology & Outcomes Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia athletes Cardiac dysrhythmia Heart disease Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy ICDs Long QT syndrome sports Source Type: blogs

Cardiology Online Test Series 1
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Source: Cardiophile MD - May 19, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin Tags: Cardiology MCQ DM / DNB Cardiology Entrance Source Type: blogs

Left Bundle Branch Block with Less Than 1 mm of Concordant ST Elevation (in the Setting of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy)
A male in his 60's with a known history of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HOCM) presented for chest pain.  He thought  it was "acid reflux," and it started a few hours prior to his presentation to a non-PCI capable hospital.  He denied any associated symptoms.  His pain was not relieved with NTG.  He had an minimally elevated troponin at the referral institution, (assay unknown).  He was diaphoretic and clutching his chest.  Here is the first ECG:There is sinus rhythm with LBBB and high voltage, and all leads have appropriate and proportional discordance EXCEPT for lead V4, which has less t...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - May 3, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs

What is the mechanism of ventricular tachycardia in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy ?
Take Our Poll In HCM every myocyte is  genetically made  defective . Myofibrils are in disarray every where . Still , can we identify some vulnerable zones that acts as arrhythmic  focus ? If that is possible , we  have a opportunity to abate that focus . In HOCM  , which is the most stressed area ? LVOT ?  Septum, ? When we say stress , it can mean either mechanical or electrical . Does electrical instability involve the same zone as mechanical stress ? How often VT originate from LVOT in HCM ?  For this we have good clinical model _, the patients who underwent alcohol septal ablation. What happens to the incidenc...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - April 26, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: drsvenkatesan Tags: cardiology -Therapeutics Cardiology -unresolved questions Cardiology-Arrhythmias Infrequently asked questions in cardiology (iFAQs) hocm hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy lvot vt in hocm mechanism of vt in hocm mechansim of vt in hcm Source Type: blogs

What is the mechanism of ventricular tachycardia in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy ?
Take Our Poll In HCM every myocyte is  genetically made  defective . Myofibrils are in disarray every where . Still , can we identify some vulnerable zones that acts as arrhythmic  focus ? If that is possible , we  have a opportunity to abate that focus . In HOCM  , which is the most stressed area ? LVOT ?  Septum, ? When we say stress , it can mean either mechanical or electrical . Does electrical instability involve the same zone as mechanical stress ? How often VT originate from LVOT in HCM ?  For this we have good clinical model _, the patients who underwent alcohol septal ablation. What happens to the incidenc...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - April 26, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: drsvenkatesan Tags: cardiology -Therapeutics Cardiology -unresolved questions Cardiology-Arrhythmias Infrequently asked questions in cardiology (iFAQs) hocm hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy lvot vt in hocm mechanism of vt in hocm mechansim of vt in hcm Source Type: blogs

Update on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
(Source: Notes from Dr. RW)
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - January 26, 2013 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Tags: cardiovascular Source Type: blogs

Utility of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Diagnosis of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy -- Rickers et al. 112 (6): 855 -- Circulation
This article in the current issue of Circulation again reiterates what is now a known fact. CMR is a superior tool to echocardiography as far as evaluation of HCM is concerned. This article does not assess the importance of delayed hyperenhancement, which over and above the superior assessment of the cine images, provides additional information, which may eventually carry significant prognostic value as well.Link:Utility of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Diagnosis of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy -- Rickers et al. 112 (6): 855 -- Circulation. (Source: Cardiac CT and MRI Literature)
Source: Cardiac CT and MRI Literature - August 8, 2005 Category: Radiology Authors: Bhavin Tags: Cardiomyopathies Source Type: blogs