Fractional Flow Reserve Measurements in the Management of Acute Coronary Artery Syndrome

Cardiovascular diseases are a leading cause of mortality and morbidity around the world. Coronary artery disease (CAD), commonly known as heart disease is the end product of atherosclerotic plaque formation. High blood pressure, smoking or high cholesterol levels are some of the risk factors that worsen the atherosclerotic...

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Management of Atrial Fibrillation

The human heart is a muscular pump which beats as a result of electrical impulses produced by a special group of cells in the heart that have the ability to generate electrical activity on their own. Any abnormalities in the heart rate or rhythm can be considered to be a fault in the electrical conduction system of the heart....

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Recent Advances in Cardiac Electrophysiology

Cardiology, being a prime medical speciality has always been in the forefront of inventing new diagnostic techniques, medical therapies, interventional procedures, medical imaging, continuous monitoring systems and more.  Among the many recent advancements, leadless pacemaker and thermocool smarttouch catheter offer...

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Use of Drug-Eluting Stents during Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Narrowing of arteries and obstruction in the blood supply to the heart may lead to major cardiovascular events such as ischemia, myocardial infarction (heart attack), stroke and more. Plaques that build-up in the coronary arteries can behave in different ways: a plaque that grows to certain size and stops, a plaque that eventually...

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Why Diagnosis of Treatment Resistant Hypertension is Important?

It is a well known fact that heart diseases have been claiming the lives of people more than any other disease. Termed as Coronary Heart Disease, this cardiac condition leads to heart attack, stroke and other major cardiovascular events. Treatment of coronary heart disease mainly focuses on controlling the risk factors by making lifestyle changes and prescribing drug treatments. High blood pressure (hypertension) and high blood cholesterol levels...

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