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- CTA or MRA after coarctation repair site should be done every 5 years
- Pindolol is noncardioselective beta blocker with intrinsic sympathomimetic activity
- After acute pericarditis, T-wave inversion may persist for months
- Isosorbide dinitrate and hydralazine have significant mortality benefit in African Americans with HF
- Fever, BAV severe AR, AVR planned, blood cultures positive for Streptococcus bovis - colonoscopy for colon cancer screening is mandatory before AVR
- Foot and calf pain worse with ambulation, sore, dry, black eschar on toe and foul smelling wound - threatened should undergo urgent revascularization after CT angiography
- When HIT develops, heparin should be stopped immediately & anticoagulate with bivalirudin or argatroban regardless of platelet count & symptoms
- After PTMC, pressure half time is unreliable for about 72 hrs to access mitral stenosis severity, do echocardiogram with planimetry of mitral valve area
- Ischemia + RCA origin in left cusp, interarterial course - surgical intervention
- RV lift, palpable systolic thrill at second left intercostal space, widely split second heart sound, and harsh ejection systolic murmur loudest at second left intercostal space are consistent with pulmonary stenosis