CARDIOLOGY

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250 Cases in Clinical Medicine

Practitioners and researchers must always rely on their own experience and knowledge in evaluating and using any information, methods, compounds, or experiments described herein. In using such information or methods they should be mindful of their own safety and the safety of others, including parties for whom they have a professional responsibility.Although this book is designed for the clinical examination it is best utilized at least 6 months before the Part 1 MRCP written examination and at least a year before the PACES clinical examination. Simultaneous development of both gist and verbatim memory requires a lot of practice and, therefore, this book is best utilized at the bedside after seeing an index case. To improve gist memory by only seeing patients (without using this book) is like embarking on a trans-Atlantic flight without a flight plan, but merely to read books without seeing adequate numbers of patients is like a plane not taking off at all. Each candidate is encouraged not only to see at least three to four representative patients of each case but also to present each patient to a colleague who has passed the examination or a consultant physician (i.e. each case should have been presented by the candidate at least three to four times before the examination); style matters as much as substance and this requires practise, practise and more practise

Echocardiography and Heart Failure: A Glimpse of the Right Heart

The catastrophic consequences for patients in the settings of certain clinical conditions such as acute right ventricular infarction or massive pulmonary embolism with right heart failure illustrate the essential role that the right ventricle plays in sustaining life. With the development of more sophisticated diagnostic imaging technologies at the end of the last century and the dawn of this century, the importance of the right ventricle has been clearly demonstrated. The continued and evolving nature of our understanding of the right ventricle was emphasized in 2006, when the National Heart, Blood, and Lung Institute formed a working group focused on developing a better understanding of the right ventricle in both healthy and disease states. The objective of this review paper is to examine the right ventricle structure and function and describe the role of echocardiography in the evaluation of the right ventricle and right heart failure. Special focus will be on echocardiographic images and major society guidelines. 2014, Wiley Periodicals, Inc