A 79-year-old woman with severe mitral regurgitation due to endocarditis was admitted to our department in February 2011 for elective mitral valve surgery. Preoperative coronary angiography showed irregularities and a…
Summary Infective endocarditis is a serious disease that needs rapid diagnosis and accurate risk stratification to offer the best therapeutic strategy. Echocardiography plays a key role in the management of…
Summary Ventricular assist devices (VADs) have become an established therapeutic option for patients with end-stage heart failure. The appearance of heart failure in VAD patients seems unexpected. Nevertheless, this phenomenon…
Summary Background Catheter ablation is an effective and potentially curative treatment in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). Aim To test the hypothesis that left atrial appendage peak flow velocity (LAV)…
Summary Background Pulmonary regurgitation (PR) is a common complication of right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) reconstruction and leads to right ventricular (RV) dilatation and dysfunction. Although cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR)…
Summary Background Owing to the wide variety of surgical substrates used for right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) reconstruction, the predictors of successful outcomes in such patients are unclear. Aims To…
Summary Background Electrophysiological alterations in atrial fibrillation (AF) may be genetically based and may lead to changes in ventricular repolarization. Short QT syndrome is a rare channelopathy with abbreviated ventricular…
Summary Background In recent years, the importance of inflammation in restenosis has been recognized gradually. When vascular injury occurs, NF-κB, which controls transcription of many inflammatory genes in restenosis (such…
Preventive treatment of high-risk asymptomatic individuals requires preliminary accurate prediction of their probability of developing a future cardiovascular event. Non-invasive detection of subclinical atherosclerosis by peripheral artery echo-Doppler or computed…
Ruptured inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is relatively rare and there has been little documentation of the process of rupture. An 83-year-old man presented with abdominal pain, abdominal tenderness and…
