by Mark | Aug 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
Congratulations to members of the McCauley and Darbar labs for publishing this important work in Circulation Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology linking metabolism to ion channel function in atrial fibrillation. These results will help inform which anti-arrhythmic drugs...
by Mark | Mar 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Due to the severe disruptions to medical student classroom learning as a result of the COVID pandemic, we will be offering the McCauley ECG course free online at YouTube for the next month. Each week, we will post a new series of lectures until all lectures are...
by Mark | Oct 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
Congratulations to my wife Amy for her first newspaper article in the Hinsdalean ! She is writing for the Hinsdale newspaper and also for a local magazine Life in the Woodlands. A link to her first article is here: There’s No Taste Like Home Also,...
by Mark | Oct 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
I am pleased to share that our work linking obesity and atrial fibrillation won the Paul D. White Award for the Best Abstract in the United States at the American Heart Association Basic Cardiovascular Sciences Session in Boston, MA. Congrats to the entire team for a...
by Mark | Aug 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
I am pleased to announce that the McCauley ECG Course has officially launched online. This course is specifically geared towards the needs of students (medical, nursing, health professions, industry) in learning how to interpret electrocardiograms (ECG). I created...
by Mark | Aug 28, 2019 | Cardiac Electrophysiology, Cardiology, General Public, Science
I am excited to announce that work from our laboratory was recently published in Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, as an Editor’s Choice Article. In this work, we show for the first time that the native electrical signal in the heart can be...
by Mark | Dec 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
Device Guidelines for Patients with Genetic Heart Disease: Pacemakers Permanent Pacemaker (2008 guidelines) Long QT Syndrome (LQTS) Class IIa Permanent pacing is reasonable for high-risk patients with congenital long-QT syndrome. Class III Permanent pacing...
by Mark | Dec 13, 2015 | Cardiac Electrophysiology, Cardiology, General Public
What is AVNRT? Rapid beating of the heart can cause the sensation of palpitations, which are often described as fluttering, pounding, and beating sensations in the chest. Sometimes these palpitations are rapid enough to affect other parts of the body, and people with...
by Mark | Oct 1, 2015 | Cardiac Electrophysiology, Cardiology, Science
Indications for Pacemaker (Class I and IIa/b Recommendations) Sinus node dysfunction (SND) with symptomatic bradycardia Symptomatic chronotropic incompetence Required drug therapy causing symptomatic bradycardia SND with HR < 40 bpm; bradycardia and symptom...
by Mark | Sep 29, 2015 | Cardiology, Science
Constrictive Pericarditis Pathology of constriction: Thick scarred pericardium equalizes 4 chamber pressure, limits ventricular filling, reduces cardiac volume. JV pressure wave form in constriction: rapid ventricular (RV) filling causes rapid Y-descent Then,...
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