100 QUESTIONS IN CARDIOLOGY

3 Brophy JM, Deslauriers G, Rouleau JL. Long-term prognosis of patients presenting to the emergency room with decompensated cong ...

58 What are LVADs and BIVADS, and who should have them? Brendan Madden Over the past 30 years, there have been efforts to produc ...

FFuurrtthheerr rreeaaddiinngg Elbeery JR, Owen CH, Savitt MA et al. Effects of the left ventricular assist device on right ventr ...

59 Who is eligible for a heart or heart-lung transplant? How do I assess suitability for transplantation? Brendan Madden Cardiac ...

33 New York Heart Association class III or IV 44 Non-transplant cardiac surgery considered unfeasible 55 Heart failure resulting ...

therapy in excess of 10mg/d. Additional contraindications for cardiac transplantation include pulmonary vascular resistance grea ...

60 What are the survival figures for heart and heart-lung transplantation? Brendan Madden In the International Registry for Hear ...

61 What drugs do post-transplant patients require, and what are their side effects? How should I follow up such patients? Brenda ...

and pulmonary transplant immunosuppression is unclear and requires further study. The side effect profile of corticosteroid ther ...

62 Can a cardiac transplant patient get angina? How is this investigated? Brendan Madden Post-transplant cardiac denervation the ...

FFuurrtthheerr rreeaaddiinngg Grant SCD, Brooks NH. Accelerated graft atherosclerosis after heart transplantation. Br Heart J199 ...

63 What drugs should be used to maintain someone in sinus rhythm who has paroxysmal atrial fibrillation? Is there a role for dig ...

with recent onset atrial fibrillation have shown no effect of digoxin as compared with placebo. Hence there appears to be no rol ...

64 Which patients with paroxysmal or chronic atrial fibrillation should I treat with aspirin, warfarin or neither? Suzanna Hardm ...

RReeffeerreenncceess 1 Hart RG. Warfarin in atrial fibrillation: underused in the elderly, often inappropriately used in the you ...

65 Which patients with SVT should be referred for an intracardiac electrophysiological study (EP study)? What are the success ra ...

amiodarone). The risk of AV block is remote (less than 1%) unless the accessory pathway is located close to the AV node in which ...

66 What drugs should I use for chemically cardioverting atrial fibrillation and when is DC cardioversion preferable? Suzanna Har ...

FFuurrtthheerr rreeaaddiinngg Falk RH. Proarrhythmic responses to atrial antiarrhythmic therapy. In: Falk RH, Podrid PJ, eds. At ...

67 How long should someone with atrial fibrillation be anticoagulated before DC cardioversion, and how long should this be conti ...