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Digital Consults to Enhance Heart Failure Treatment: The ADMINISTER Trial

Cardiology Update

This includes beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors, ARBs, ARNIs, MRAs, and SGLT2 inhibitors. The primary outcome is the GDMT prescription rate score, with secondary outcomes covering the time to full GDMT optimization, patient and clinician satisfaction, time spent on healthcare, and the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire.

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Abstract 4142012: Ectasias of Multiple Coronary Arteries and a Coronary Cameral Fistula Between Right Coronary Artery and Coronary Sinus

Circulation

Cardiac MRI did not show significant ischemic findings.The patient received medical therapy consisting of antiplatelet agents, high dose statin, beta blocker and ACE inhibitor, as well as diuretics. Notably, the LAD had multiple aneurysmal segments and areas of eccentric stenosis upto 90%.Multislice

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Understanding an Enlarged Heart (Cardiomegaly): Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

MIBHS

Cardiomyopathy Cardiomyopathy is a condition that affects the heart muscle, causing it to become enlarged, thick, or rigid. Excessive Alcohol or Drug Use Long-term abuse of alcohol or certain drugs can weaken the heart muscle, resulting in cardiomyopathy and eventually cardiomegaly.

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Heart Failure – Does Testosterone Hold the Key?

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

These include ACE inhibitors (medications such as ramipril, lisinopril, perindopril etc), beta-blockers (carvedilol, Bisoprolol, nebivolol), aldosterone antagonists (spironolactone), Entresto and now there is a new class of medications called SGLT2 inhibitors such as Dapagliflozin. Thank you for reading.

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Resynchronising the Heart in Heart Failure

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

We now do have some really good medications that help do both and these include: ACE Inhibitors/Entresto Beta Blockers MRAs – Mineraloreceptor antagonists SGLT2 inhibitors And ideally anyone with heart failure should be on all these medications unless they are intolerant or in some way the medications are contraindicated.

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What does the angiogram show? The Echo? The CT coronary angiogram? How do you explain this?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Angiogram No obstructive epicardial coronary artery disease Cannot exclude non-ACS causes of troponin elevation including coronary vasospasm, stress cardiomyopathy, microvascular disease, etc. hours T-wave are getting larger again The patient went for an angiogram at about 7 hours after arrival. Lindahl et al.

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Upon arrival to the emergency department, a senior emergency physician looked at the ECG and said "Nothing too exciting."

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

by making it clear to everyone that this is NOT an EKG that one sees with takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Hospital Course The patient was taken emergently to the cath lab which did not reveal any significant coronary artery disease, but she was noted to have reduced EF consistent with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Lindahl et al.

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