Heart HQ: TAVI
Heart HQ - Episode $: TAVI. We discuss Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implant (TAVI). Traditionally, open heart surgery has been the main treatment option for aortic stenosis
Cardiology
De Winter T Wave
First reported by de Winter in 2008, the de Winter ECG pattern is an anterior STEMI equivalent that presents without obvious ST segment elevation
Heart HQ: Valve-in-Valve TAVI
Heart HQ - Episode 3: Valve-in-Valve Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (ViV TAVI)and Cardiovascular Disease in women
Peter Kerley
Sir Peter James Kerley (1900-1979) was an Irish radiologist. Kerley was widely published including describing (but not naming) his eponymous lines firstly in 1933 and then in again his textbook in 1950, and widely about TB diagnosis. Kerley lines A, B and C
Heart HQ: WPW and Myocarditis
Heart HQ - Episode 2: Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) Syndrome, myocarditis and COVID 19 Vaccines
Robbert de Winter
Robbert J. de Winter (1958 – ) is a Dutch Professor of cardiology. Eponym: de Winter T wave - a new ECG Sign of Proximal LAD Occlusion
Heart HQ: Coronary Artery Calcium
Heart HQ - Episode 1: Heart HQ celebrates World Heart Day by launching a podcast. We talk about Left Atrial Myxoma and Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring
Killer ECG Patterns: Part 1
The average Emergency Clinician is interrupted every 6 minutes. When busy, it can be tempting to quickly “sign off” an ECG. These are the patterns not to miss.
Ultrasound Case 110
A 40 yo man is admitted with lobar pneumonia. He develops new atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response; becomes hypotensive and increasingly dyspnoeic.
Charles Aston Key
Charles Aston Key (1793 –1849) was an English surgeon. Eponym: Key-Hodgkin murmur (1827)
Kounis Syndrome
Acute Coronary Syndrome in the setting of allergic or anaphylactic reactions, usually secondary to allergic coronary vasospasm
ST depression does not localise
This review will change your approach to localised ST depression on the ECG, which on its own does not accurately localise ischaemia, and may be the first sign of subtle occlusion