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Carina Blomström-Lundqvist
Job title: Professor of Cardiology
Dr Carina Blomström-Lundqvist is Professor of Cardiology at the Department of Cardiology, Institution of Medical Science, Uppsala, SE and Senior Consultant and Professor at the Department of Cardiology and Medical Science, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, SE. Dr Blomström-Lundqvist graduated in medicine in 1976, she went on to specialise in cardiology and internal medicine, and started… View more
Author(s): Nico A Blom Added: 3 years ago
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) using biventricular pacing has been proven to be effective in adult patients with left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction and QRS prolongation. In this group of patients, CRT improves exercise tolerance, symptoms of heart failure and all-cause mortality.1 In addition, there is growing evidence that inter- and intra-ventricular dyssynchrony induced by… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Author(s): Henry M Spotnitz , T Alexander Quinn Added: 3 years ago
Surgeons have contributed studies of the pathophysiology and treatment of arrhythmias in experimental animals and patients during thoracotomy. This research has involved epicardial1 and endocardial2 pacemakers and implantable cardioverter–defibrillators (ICDs).3 Surgeons helped to define the mechanisms and ablation methods for supraventricular arrhythmias (including Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome… View more

Vascular Disease and Surgery

Heart Failure
Sanjay Prasad
Job title: Consultant in cardiology and cardiovascular magnetic resonance Professor of cardiomyopathy
Dr. Sanjay Prasad ran the Virgin London Marathon in 2016 to raise money for the Alexander Jansons Foundation, an organisation which was set up to fund research conducted by the Royal Brompton Hospital into causes, prevention and cures for Myocarditis.¹ He is also a musician and used to play in a jazz band. Academic History Dr. Prasad studied for his medical degree at the University of Wales in… View more
Author(s): Emily Seif , Leway Chen , Bruce Goldman Added: 3 years ago
Myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of the myocardium. It has a wide spectrum of severity, with symptoms ranging from mild fevers, shortness of breath, and palpitations to severe hemodynamic collapse. Fulminant myocarditis is a rare form of severe myocarditis that presents with sudden-onset acute heart failure, cardiogenic shock, or life-threatening arrhythmias.1 Prognosis and management of… View more

Heart Failure
Author(s): Hans Joachim Nesser Added: 3 years ago
Tissue Doppler-based measurements of myocardial strain are possible and accurate for structures that move along the ultrasound beam, but are underestimated in other directions and even impossible for angles close to 90º. To overcome these limitations, the speckle tracking technique was introduced in 2004, offering a more user-friendly workflow and better reproducibility.1 This echocardiographic… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

MI/ACS
Author(s): Victor L Serebruany Added: 3 years ago
Understanding of the pathogenesis of congestive heart failure (CHF) has improved remarkably in recent years. However, despite better knowledge and novel pharmaceutical strategies, this disease is still one of the most brutal killers in the Western world. The pathophysiology of CHF is complex, and much of our comprehension revolves strictly around the neurohormonal and mechanical mechanisms… View more

Anticoagulation
Author(s): G Hamilton Baker , Girish S Shirali Added: 3 years ago
Congenital heart disease affects approximately 0.8% of the population.1 It is also estimated that there are approximately one million adults in the US living with some form of congenital heart disease.2 In daily practice, echocardiography is the most widely used imaging modality for diagnosis and evaluation of these patients. As medical technology has developed, this modality has continuously… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

Heterogeneous Populations
Catheter Ablation for Ventricular Tachycardia
Author(s): Timothy M Markman , Daniel A McBride , Jackson J Liang Added: 3 years ago
Ventricular tachycardia (VT) occurs most frequently in patients with structural heart disease. Management of VT in these patients can be complex, requiring an integrated approach with multiple therapeutic modalities. Antiarrhythmic drugs (AADs) can be effective in the management of VT and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) have been shown to effectively prevent sudden cardiac death… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Author(s): Tamar S Polonsky , Victor Mor-Avi , Roberto M Lang Added: 3 years ago
Cardiac imaging has become fully integrated in the management of patients, with echocardiography being the most widely used modality. Two-dimensional echocardiography (2DE) offers a detailed assessment of ventricular function, valvular pathology, and hemodynamics, but its comprehensiveness is limited by the fact that images represent a single plane, and may thus inadequately represent a heart… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics