Diastole and systole refer to when the heart muscles relax and contract. The balance between diastolic and systolic pressure determines a person’s blood pressure. A blood pressure reading displays ...

Left ventricular end-diastolic volume is the amount of blood in the heart’s left ventricle just before the heart contracts. While the right ventricle also has an end-diastolic volume, it’s the value ...

Background: Prolonged steady state exercise can lead to a decrease in left ventricular (LV) function as well as promote the release of cardiac troponin T (cTnT). There is limited information on the ...

A 55-year-old man with a history of mild aortic stenosis presents to his cardiologist for a routine exam. He says he has no cardiac symptoms and is physically active. Physical examination is ...

A person's sensitivity to external stimuli depends not only on the state of their nervous system, but also on their cardiac cycle. Usually we do not notice our heartbeat, paying attention to it only ...

What Pressure Reference Point Should Be Used for Titration of Vasopressor and Vasodilator Drips? Balloon pumping every other heartbeat expands the arterial waveform to five reference points. The ...

BELGRADE, Serbia—An artificial intelligence algorithm for interpreting electrocardiograms (AI-ECG) can identify individuals who have subclinical heart failure (HF) when echocardiography isn’t widely ...

How does the ejection fraction (EF) calculated during the sestamibi imaging of a cardiac stress test correlate with an EF measured with a two-dimensional cardiogram? — Patricia Gable, FNP-BC, Cadillac ...

The immediate past Chief Medical Director of LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Prof. O. G. Opadijo, is a consultant cardiologist and expert in cardiology medicine. In this interview by ...