Cardiology Facts 57


  • 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