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Unusual seminars in cardiology :Ten simple ways to waste cardiology resources !

drsvenkatesan wrote 4 months ago: Do 64slice MDCT  in all patients who has  a coronary event and follow it up with catheter based CAG. … more →

Tags: Cardiology-Coronary artery disese, cardiology- coronary care, Cardiology -unresolved questions, Cardiology-Arrhythmias, Cardiology hypertension, PCI, stemi, NSTEMI, Cardiology

Who is an "Interventional cardiologist" ?

drsvenkatesan wrote 4 months ago: Is he a person who puts  a   metal coil  coated with a synthetic fungus   in  a   incidentally  dete … more →

Tags: Cardiology-Coronary artery disese, cardiology- coronary care, Bio-Ethics, Madras Medical College, primary pci, NEJM, ethics in cardiology, JAMA, Cardiologist

How to tackle CTO ? Japan shows the way - Welcome to the world of complex cardiovascular interventions !

drsvenkatesan wrote 4 months ago: Annual workshops for interventional cardiologists has been  hugely popular events.They have  become … more →

Tags: CTO, tctmd, scai, chronic total occlusion, CCT JAPAN, complex pci, front runner, gaurd wire

Coronary hemodynamics in 100% occlusion ?

drsvenkatesan wrote 5 months ago: Total coronary artery occlusion is a common finding in CAD  especially in chronic stable angina. Nor … more →

Tags: Cardiology - Clinical, Cardiology -Interventional -PCI, cardiology -Therapeutics, cardiology- coronary care, Cardiology -unresolved questions, PCI, stemi, NSTEMI, thrombolysis

ENHS

esperanzanhs wrote 5 months ago: Welcome to ESPERANZA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL, Esperanza, Sultan Kudarat 9806. … more →

Tags: Contacts, Clubs/Organizations, faculty, Principal, Vision, mission, History

Can we advice CABG for single vessel disease ?

drsvenkatesan wrote 7 months ago: Can we advice CABG for single vessel disease  ? Yes, CABG  may be indicated  in Critical , proximal … more →

Tags: Cardiac Surgery, PCI, RCA, lad, CABG, triple vessel disease, proximal lad, lcx, acc.aha

What is the most important criteria for doing a PCI in CAD ? The secret 6th criteria !

drsvenkatesan wrote 7 months ago: Scientifically ,  the  indication for coronary revascularisation   should be  based on following Pat … more →

Tags: PCI, ACS, stemi, cath lab, stent, primary pci, CABG, gruentzig, chronic stable angina

Why many of the coronary perforations during PCI are benign ?

drsvenkatesan wrote 8 months ago: Coronary artery  perforation is a dreaded complication of PCI. Perforations are the Interventional c … more →

Tags: Cardiology -Interventional -PCI, PCI, Dissection, gruentzig, europcr, tctmd, scai, jacc, Pseudo-Science

What are the precautions to be taken during PCI when we encounter thrombus containing lesions ?

drsvenkatesan wrote 9 months ago: First and foremost is Avoid the procedure if  not really indicated.A lesion which  has more thrombus … more →

Tags: Cardiology -Interventional -PCI, cardiology -Therapeutics, PCI, ACS, primary pci, tct md, IVUS, drug eluting stent, coronary thrombosis

What is plaque prolpase within a coronary artery ?

drsvenkatesan wrote 9 months ago: Coronary stents have revolutionised the management of CAD. Stents are metallic scaffolding devices t … more →

Tags: Cardiology - Clinical, Cardiology -Interventional -PCI, Infrequently asked questions in cardiology (iFAQs), PCI, left main, tct md, europcr, drug eluting stents, stents

What is the incidence of insignificant left main disese ? How will you manage it ?

drsvenkatesan wrote 9 months ago: Left main coronary artery disease (LMCAD) always  evokes  a terrorising  feeling among cardiologists … more →

Tags: Cardiology -Interventional -PCI, Cardiology-Coronary artery disese, cardiology- coronary care, hemodynamics, PCI, ACS, lad, Coronary Artery Disease, left main disese

Solo practice: Dinosaur or phoenix?

smnewsletters wrote 9 months ago: It’s no news that quality of life for physicians in independent practice is difficult these da … more →

Tags: Practice Management, Memory, Primary Care, Facial Expressions, Solo Practice, small practice, Quality of Care, independent practice, minority patients

Critical cardiology : And now , drug abuse inside human coronary arteries !

drsvenkatesan wrote 11 months ago:                                                     Drugs are poisons , whenever it is administered … more →

Tags: PCI, ACS, thrombolysis, ethics, primary pci, Angioplasty, NEJM, europcr, tctmd

The art of unlearning cardiology : ACC/AHA 2009 revascularisation guidelines -It is 135 pages of simple commonsense !

drsvenkatesan wrote 11 months ago: Contrary to popular belief ,great things happen only rarely in medicine . It takes  only  few  month … more →

Tags: Cardiology - Clinical, cardiology -Therapeutics, cardiology- coronary care, Bio-Ethics, EBM, scai, evidence based cardiology, revascularisation, pci guidelines

Top ten inventions and concepts in cardiology1 comment

drsvenkatesan wrote 12 months ago:  Selected on the basis of ,  impact  on survival , relief of  human suffering index and also innovat … more →

Tags: Cardiology - Electrophysiology -Pacemaker, Cardiology - Clinical, cardiology-ethics, hemodynamics, Top ten in cardiology, PCI, Cardiology, statins, ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY

Unscientific quotes for the interventional cardiologists

drsvenkatesan wrote 1 year ago: A poorly deployed drug eluting stent is far inferior to a properly deployed bare metal stents Doing … more →

Tags: PCI, interventional cardiology, cath lab, drug eleuting stents

Why should a stent elute drug ?

drsvenkatesan wrote 1 year ago: Stents are mechanical  devices like  a  spring ,  used to  keep an artery open after a PTCA or PCI. … more →

Tags: Cardiology -Interventional -PCI, Cardiology-Coronary artery disese, Infrequently asked questions in cardiology (iFAQs), cardiology- coronary care, cardiology-ethics, PCI, tct md, europcr, drug eluting stent

Drug eluting stents bare it all ! and bare metal stents cover it all !

drsvenkatesan wrote 1 year ago:                                       One of the important principles of  post PCI care is,   we nee … more →

Tags: Cardiology -Interventional -PCI, cardiology -Therapeutics, Infrequently asked questions in cardiology (iFAQs), tct md, scai, xience v, Cypher, acc.aha, drug eluting stents

Can stable angina occur at rest ?

drsvenkatesan wrote 1 year ago:                                         Angina pectoris , classically occur on exertion and gets rel … more →

Tags: Cardiology - Clinical, Cardiology -Interventional -PCI, cardiology -Therapeutics, Infrequently asked questions in cardiology (iFAQs), cardiology- coronary care, drsvenkatesan, stemi, NSTEMI, Cardiology


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