Revised Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) for Echocardiography were published in 2011 and classify potential procedure indications as appropriate (score of 7 to 9), uncertain (score of 4 to 6), or…
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is a chronic illness. Few adults with CHD are cured and those with disease of moderate or great complexity remain at risk of premature death. Current…
Although intravenous adenosine is recommended for acute vasodilator testing in patients with pulmonary hypertension, long-term outcomes in acute responders treated with calcium channel blockers (CCBs) who are identified by adenosine…
In patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) in the general population, elevated glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA 1c ) increases the risk for developing heart failure (HF). However, in patients with established HF,…
Impaired kidney function often accompanies heart failure (HF) and is associated with a worse prognosis. This post hoc analysis of the Treating to New Targets (TNT) trial examined whether the…
Increased physical activity (PA) is associated with improvement of cardiac risk factors and prevention of cardiovascular disease, yet many women remain sedentary. With rising Internet use, Web-based interventions provide an…
Microalbuminuria is one of the strongest predictors of both adverse renal and cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Although measurement of urinary albumin excretion (UAE)…
This retrospective study assessed long-term clinical outcomes of patients with orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT) and transplant coronary artery disease (TCAD) who developed in-stent restenosis (ISR) after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)….
Results of recent studies using the ratio of plasma triglyceride (TG) to high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol concentration to identify insulin-resistant patients at increased cardiometabolic risk have emphasized that the cut…
Conventional coronary angiography (CCA) has considerable limitations regarding visualization of distal vessel segments in chronic total occlusion. We assessed the ability of coronary computed tomographic angiography (CCTA) to predict the…
