Cardiology Journal 2009, tom 16, nr 1

To determine whether the number of optimally controlled hypertensive patients is higher using self-measurement of blood pressure at home and ambulatory monitoring, compared to using conventional blood pressure measurements at the doctor’s office...

Valve replacement for aortic stenosis (AS) determines negative ventricular remodelling. We used cross sectional and Doppler echocardiography to check how rapidly it occurs and to assess if these changes are sustained over time....

Negative T wave and lack of ST segment elevation in predischarge ECG in ST-segment elevation myocardial infraction (STEMI) patients are given as markers of good prognosis. Repolarization duration, especially its late part (TpeakTend — TpTe), likewise ST-T patterns, is related to local post-myocardial infarction myocardial attributes...

Recent advances in wireless communication, data storage, and implantable electronic technologies have ushered in a new era of real-time, remote electrocardiographic (ECG) monitoring using implantable devices. Existing continuous external ECG monitoring is limited by the patient’s ability to tolerate adhesive electrodes applied to the skin for days at a time, and the need to have the device worn on the waist or around the neck at all times. These external ambulatory ECG monitoring devices are first line when limited monitoring are needed but are impractical for long term use...

An operator’s ability to determine the optimal vascular access strategy for patients undergoing peripheral endovascular intervention is critical to maximizing procedural safety and success. Individualizing an approach to access requires careful planning, and is contingent upon a solid general knowledge of normal and abnormal vascular anatomy, as well as the particulars of each patient’s history, physical examination, and non-invasive test results...

Few inventions dramatically revolutionize the practice of medicine; however, the creation of the heart-lung machine by John Heysham Gibbon Jr. not only succeeded in this goal but also created a whole new field of cardiovascular surgery. John H. Gibbon Jr. was born in Philadelphia on September 29th 1903 to a highly intellectual and prominent family...

Congenital diverticulum of the left ventricle is a very rare cardiac abnormality characterized by a local embryological development failure of the ventricular muscle. It may present as an isolated disorder or may be associated with other cardiac abnormalities...