cardiovascular

The University of Arizona, College of Medicine- Tucson, will be hosting a virtual townhall on Thursday, May 26th. We invite all prospective applicants to come and learn more about our Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program. Interested in learning more? Join us on May 26th at 5:00PM...

The University of Arizona College of Medicine- Tucson will be hosting a virtual town hall next week for prospective applicants to learn more about our Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program. Interested in learning more? Join us on July 7th at 5:00PM (PST) for our Fellowship Recruitment Town...

Hi all! I'm gathering data for my research poster project about what current providers are using to calculate ASCVD risk - ACC/AHA 10yr ASCVD, LDL, Framingham risk score or others. Which do you use? This is not to conclude to any debate. This is mainly to determine what current providers are...

Undergrad premed students, please consider this great opportunity to do clinical research: Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation will hire 12 interns for paid, 12-week internships this summer. The application DEADLINE is JANUARY 31! Interns work 1:1 with a cardiologist mentor, and participate...

Undergrad premed students, please consider this great opportunity to do clinical research: Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation will hire 12 interns for paid, 12-week internships this summer. The application DEADLINE is JANUARY 31! Interns work 1:1 with a cardiologist mentor, and participate...

Hi, I'm Brazilian and I'll enter medical school, here in Brazil, in one year. My plan is to finish the 6 years of medical school here and then apply to 2-year residency in Sweden. I'd do my best to impress the people working with me so they encourage me to stay in Sweden, because I want to be...

In SA node and AV node, how is ERP - effective refractory period defined and how does it change with sym or psymp activation? Like its pretty clear in purkinje cells but what about these slow fibre? Considering that calcium channel transitions are time depepndent does it include phase4 (or a...

We learn in physio that during depolarization phase in the membrane, more sodium channels open as the membrane potential increases i.e., less negative. This is a kind of positive feedback in the action potential and explains the threshold of depolarization(an epsp) required for action potential...

I was hoping someone could help me understand what markers can be used to measure inflammation in patients that could be a sign of cardiovascular disease. I've read that neutrophil to leukocyte ratio and WBC count are used, but anyone elaborate on this for me? Say a patient goes to the doctor...