Mutations in the bone morphogenetic protein receptor type 2 ( BMPR2 ) gene and the activin receptor–like kinase 1 ( ALK1 ) gene have been reported in heritable pulmonary arterial…
This article has two errors in tables 3 and 4 where the quartile (Q) comparisons for the RDW and the MCHC are not written correctly. For the RDW, in the…
With femoral access, bivalirudin decreases risks of major bleeding after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and provides better net clinical benefit compared to unfractionated heparin (UFH) plus planned glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors….
Cardiac transplantation is a treatment option for patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC) who developed refractory heart failure and/or intractable arrhythmia. However, the pretransplant characteristics and post-transplant prognosis for patients with…
Cardiac malformations occur commonly in Turner syndrome (TS), but the outcomes of cardiac operations and catheter-based procedures are unknown. The Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium database was queried for individuals with…
Some patients diagnosed with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) are eventually found to have cardiac sarcoidosis (CS). Accurate differentiation between these 2 conditions has implications for immunosuppressive therapy and familial…
Cardiac troponin increases are common in adult marathon finishers. However, data on troponin values for young marathon runners are scarce. Forty young runners (20 healthy male and 20 female) 13…
The long-term effects of illicit drug use (IDU) on the clinical outcome of patients with heart failure (HF) are not well described. The objective of the present study was to…
There is a tendency to avoid noncardiac surgery in patients with mechanical heart valves (MHVs) owing to the increased risk of perioperative thromboembolism, infective endocarditis, and bleeding. We aimed to…
Our aim was to assess the prognostic impact of a high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) assay in an outpatient population with chronic systolic left ventricular heart failure (HF). Four hundred…
