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- Monocyte/macrophage lineage cells are considered most important to process of atherosclerosis
- Hydralazine has side effect ankle edema
- LMWH and bivalirudin doses should be adjusted if creatinine clearance is less than 30mL/minute
- E wave > A wave, LV deceleration time less than 190 ms - Pseudonormalized pattern
- Slow flow after stenting, IVUS no complications - cause microvascular obstruction
- CAC score >400 shows high risk of future cardiovascular events
- History of acute pericarditis, on high-dose aspirin and colchicine, right heart failure, echo constrictive pericarditis - treatment steroid (0.25 to 0.5 mg/kg/day) with colchicine and PO diuretic
- Brugada syndrome has ECG shows RBBB morphology with ST-segment elevation in anterior precordial leads
- Anterior STEMI, PCI TIMI 2 flow, hypotension despite dopamine infusion - management percutaneous LVAD
- HTN, DM, increased weight gain, fracture after minor fall, increasing hirsutism - diagnosis Cushing syndrome, test 24 hour urine cortisol