Mark Dayer, MD PhD FRCP « CardioExchange

March 27th, 2013

Left to Our Many Devices, Which One Do We Choose?

Mark Dayer, MD PhD FRCP and James Fang, MD

A 63-year-old male smoker with type 2 diabetes presents for the first time with chest pain and shortness of breath at rest. He has no recent history of viral infection and no family history of heart failure or sudden cardiac death. Initial laboratory testing documents negative troponin, normal calcium, normal serum angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) activity, and a […]

Categories: Electrophysiology
Tags: cardiac resynchronization therapy, defibrillation, left bundle branch block, pacemakers

September 4th, 2012

You Got the Criminal. But What About the Bystander?

Mark Dayer, MD PhD FRCP and James Fang, MD

A drug-eluting stent is successfully implanted after an acute inferior MI in a fit 70-year-old man. What do you do for the bystander disease detected at the LAD/D1 junction?

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