Diabetes mellitus is a major risk factor for coronary artery disease (CAD) and for diffuse and progressive atherosclerosis. We evaluated the outcomes of drug-eluting stent (DES) placement and coronary artery…
There is some uncertainty, and even controversy, as to when hypertrophic cardiomyopathy was first recognized. Dating back to 1868, there are autopsy-based case reports from France, Germany, and the United…
Recently, it has been demonstrated that transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) can result in significant improvement in patients’ quality of life (QOL) in the short term. At present, however, little…
We examined right ventricular (RV) and ascending pulmonary artery (PA1) dimensions in adults with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). The survey included 99 adults with OI divided in 3 clinical types (I,…
Surgical indications in patients with severe chronic aortic regurgitation (AR) and normal left ventricular (LV) ejection fractions (EF) remain to be established. The aim of this study was to identify…
The geometries and sizes of persistent iatrogenic atrial septal defects (IASDs) after transseptal puncture during catheter-based mitral valve clip insertion (MVCI) have not been detailed. In this study, 11 IASDs…
We appreciate Almalag and colleagues’ interest in our systematic review and meta-analysis of the association between methotrexate (MTX) use and incident cardiovascular disease (CVD). Most of their questions arise from…
Thanopoulos et al, in a recent report, presented their experience in the treatment of coarctation of the aorta (CoA) in children with stent implantation. They retrospectively analyzed 74 consecutive patients…
Atrial arrhythmia (AA) is common in adult patients with congenital heart disease (CHD). To enable the prevention of AA or its complications, timely identification of adult patients with CHD at…
Evidence-based medicine is an evolutionary process, intended to foster and disseminate the best practice guidelines from an ongoing critical analysis of available data. An underaddressed challenge relates to detecting and…
