Items tagged “cardiology”
190 results found
Case
Giant calcified left atrium
Published
24 Jan 2011
75% complete
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Transseptal course of left coronary artery
Published
29 Jan 2011
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CT
Article
Right atrial enlargement
Right atrial (RA) enlargement is less common, and harder to delineate on chest radiograph, than left atrial (LA) enlargement.
Pathology
Etiology
Enlargement of the right atrium (RA) can result from a number of conditions, including:
raised right ventricular pressures
pulmonary arterial hype...
Article
Cardiac chamber enlargement
Cardiac chamber enlargement can be recognized by cardiac contour changes, new or different interfaces with adjacent lung, and/or displacement of adjacent mediastinal structures. These are discussed separately:
right atrial enlargement
right ventricular enlargement
left atrial enlargement
lef...
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Biventricular cardiac pacemaker
Published
11 Mar 2011
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Massive pulmonary embolism
Published
15 Mar 2011
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CT
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Variation in fetal heart rate through gestation
Published
16 Mar 2011
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Diagram
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Transposition of great arteries
Published
25 Mar 2011
75% complete
X-ray
Article
Fetal bradycardia
Fetal bradycardia refers to an abnormally low fetal heart rate, a potentially ominous finding. A sustained first trimester heart rate below 100 beats per minute (bpm) is generally considered bradycardic. The average fetal heart rate changes during pregnancy, however, and some consider the lower ...
Case
Dilated cardiomyopathy
Published
18 Apr 2011
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X-ray
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Pericardial effusion
Published
07 May 2011
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X-ray
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Cardiac failure with Kerley B lines
Published
10 May 2011
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X-ray
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Echogenic intracardiac focus
Published
10 May 2011
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Ultrasound
Article
Acardiac twin
An acardiac twin, also known a recipient twin, refers to the haemodynamically disadvantaged twin of a twin-pair in the setting of twin reversed arterial perfusion (TRAP) sequence. The acardiac twin undergoes secondary atrophy and is non-viable.
Epidemiology
Acardiac twinning is thought to affe...
Case
Right coronary artery aneurysm
Published
19 May 2011
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CT
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Cardiac bronchus
Published
20 Jun 2011
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X-ray
CT
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Colloid cyst of the 3rd ventricle
Published
23 Jun 2011
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MRI
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Cardiac MRI - standard imaging planes
Published
08 Jul 2011
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MRI
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Aortic valve stenosis
Published
30 Jul 2011
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CT
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Article
Myocardial infarction
Myocardial infarction (MI), colloquially known as a heart attack, an acute coronary syndrome, results from interruption of myocardial blood flow and resultant ischemia and is a leading cause of death worldwide.
Epidemiology
Risk factors
male > females
age
>45 years for males
>55 years for...
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