cardiovascular Links

Cardiovascular case presentations and teaching files from various resources. They are intended for use by health care professionals.

ACLS Treatment Protocols
Quick Reference Guide for Clinicians. Contains recommendations on the care of patients with unstable angina. Anesthesia Server.
Drugs commonly used in intensive medical management of patients with unstable angina
Online CME: Angina and Coronary Artery Disease: Primary Care Strategies for Diagnosis and Treatment. Sponsored by Georgetown University Medical Center and Pfizer.
Hemodynamics of Aortic Insufficiency. University of Miami.
Loyola University. Short, concise review of Aortic Stenosis
Overview. University of Alberta.
Overview of atherosclerosis. Oregon Health Sciences University.
Clinical Guideline. Cardiac Rehabilitation (Overview) . National Institutes of Health. AHCPR.
Teaching module. Cardiovascular Disease.
Cardiology lecture notes. Ed Friedlander, M.D.
Overview. University of Alberta.
Pericarditis, myocarditis, infective endocarditis. Overview. University of Alberta.
Hyperlipidemia. University of Chicago.
Cholesterol Screening in Asymptomatic Adults, Revisited. Benifits of cholesterol reduction. ACP online.
Comprehensive lecture notes from the University of California, Irvine.
Classification of functional capacity and objective assessment of patients with cardiac disease. NYHA
Electric Differential Multimedia Lab. Virtual Hospital.
Drugs therapy in CHF
Southern Medical Association
Overview. University of Alberta.
University of Iowa. Virtual Hospital
Cardiac Arrhythmia Advisory System. Text descriptions only. University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
Southern Medical Association
Southern Medical Association
EKG images of cardiac normal and abnormal rhythms. EMBBS
A Brief history of cardiac stimulation and electrophysiology- Seymour Furman MD, FACS, FACC - Testamur NASPExAM
Southern Medical Association
University of Iowa. Virtual Hospital
Epidemiology, pathogenesis, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of infective endocarditis. Michael Vavrik
Prevention of bacterial endocarditis. Recommendations by the American Heart Association.
Overview of the use of Enhanced external counterpulsation(EECP) in angina pectoris. Heart Center of Sarasota.
Southern Medical Association
Multimedia presentation. Heart Preview Gallery. Graphics .
University of Iowa. Virtual Hospital
Complete book chapter on hypertension--Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment. UCSF
Southern Medical Association
Importance of therapeutic coverage in antihypertensive therapy
HTN Study Questions. UKMC.
Overview. University of Alberta.
Primary Care Teaching Module: Treatment of Hypertension. UCSF.
Primary Care Lecture Series. University of Chicago.
Virtual Hospital
Virtual Hospital
Overview. University of Alberta.
Database for leads. HeartWeb.
Stanford University
Southern Medical Association
Mitral Valve Prolapse in Active Patients: Recognition, Treatment, and Exercise Recommendations. the Physician and Sports Medicine.
University of Iowa. Virtual Hospital
Laboratory Diagnosis of Myocardial Infarction.
Laboratory Diagnosis of Myocardial Infarction. Includes Case presentations UCI .Lecture series.
Laboratory Diagnonsis of Myocardial Infarction. University of California, Irvine.
Southern Medical Association
Hypertext teaching file. University of California, Irvine. Guide to pacemakers and Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD).
Long Term Survivors of Pacemaker Implant. Heart Web.
University of Chicago
Selection of Prosthetic Heart Valves. Sample document. Prime Practice.
Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty. Southern Medical Association.
University of Iowa. Virtual Hospital
Specifications on over 1160 pacer models. HeartWeb.
Overview. University of Alberta.
Southern Medical Association
University of Iowa. Virtual Hospital
False Positive Thallium Exam. Review and Reference Notes on Nuclear Medicine
Southern Medical Association
Overview. University of Alberta.
Vascular ablnormalities of the chest.
60-year-old white man with a pulsing mass in the stomach
Rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysm. Images.
Aortic Stenosis in the Elderly. Grand Rounds--Froedtert Hospital
Chest Pain in a Middle-Aged Hispanic Female.
Fatigue and shortness of breath.
73-year-old black woman had a syncopal episode with apparent respiratory arrest after arising from her chair.
14-year-old girl with Hemoptysis and increasing shortness of breath for 2 years.
Congestive heart failure due to diastolic dysfunction. Reuters Clinical Challenges.
Acute onset of sharp tearing upper back pain and constant chest pain.
54-year-old white man with buttock and thigh claudication and impotence (Leriche's syndrome).
Echocardiographic Demonstration of Rapid Growth of a Left Atrial Myxoma. Grand Rounds at Froedtert Hospital.
12-lead electrocardiogram interpretation
33-year-old attorney with fever and malaise for 3 months.
Two short hypertension cases.
Uncontrolled hypertension in a Middle-Aged Hispanic Male.
Headaches and blurred vision of 3 days duration.
28-year-old white woman who presented with a severe hypertension of recent onset.
A 15-year-old boy developed syncopal attacks, bouts of chest pain, and dyspnea on exertion.
Case of coronary intervention. Grand Rounds at Froedtert Hospital.
The Heart In Iron Overload. Grand Rounds at Froedtert Hospital.
IHD Presentation with gross and microscopic images.
Small inferior myocardial infarction and acute shortness of breath
Interactive clinical case. Requires frames capable browser. Creighton University.
MI case presentation with gross and microscopic images.
73-year-old accountant with severe chest pain for 2 days.
6-month-old infant with ten hours of fever, anorexia, progressive tachypnea and sinus tachycardia.
Possible viral myocarditis in an infant. Images.
60-year-old woman with dyspnea on exertion for 16 years; worse in the past 3 months.
13-year old boy with a history of cough and shortness of breath for three weeks.
Presentation and discussion of difficult cardiology case. Columbia University
R arm weakness and visual problems.
Chest Radiographs of some patients with cardiac lesions. South Bank University
Images and a few articles on echocardiograpy. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
Atherosclerosis and thrombosis index. WebPath.
Cardiovascular index. Pathology images. WebPath.