Social Media Use and Community-Based Cardiovascular Health-care Professionals: Perception versus Reality.

Social media use has dramatically increased in the past two decades. This growth has been seen in the health-care field as well. Social media is being used for a variety of activities including networking, education, public health, and marketing.

Cardiovascular Impact of Eating Disorders in Adults: A Single Center Experience and Literature Review.

Eating disorders have multiple medical sequelae, including potentially life-threatening cardiovascular complications. This article describes our cardiology practice experience of treating adults with eating disorders in the outpatient setting and documents baseline cardiac findings in this complex patient population. We describe our findings in patients across the spectrum of eating disorders; past studies have generally focused on anorexia only.

Influence of 99mTc-tetrofosmin SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging on the prediction of future adverse cardiac events.

Background: The impact of myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) on prediction of risk for future cardiac events was examined by comparing predictions based on clinical information alone and in combination with MPI findings.

Methods And Results: A 3-cardiologist Cardiac Event Prediction Panel (CEPP) estimated three-year cardiac event (non-fatal MI; aborted sudden cardiac death; cardiac death) risk based on clinical data (C) for 371 subjects. CEPP repeated this estimation after receiving Summed Stress Scores (SSS) and Summed Rest Scores (SRS) from blinded reading of rest-stress (99m)Tc-tetrofosmin MPI SPECT studies (C + MPI).

History of the evolution of echocardiography.

Echocardiography provides information regarding cardiac morphology, function and hemodynamics non-invasively. It is the most frequently performed cardiovascular examination after electrocardiography and chest X-ray. In less than half a century, this technique has evolved to a mainstay of cardiovascular medicine.