I read thoroughly the article written by Lee et al, which reported that rivaroxoban would be a cost–effective alternative to warfarin even with the lowest price of rivaroxoban in the…
Edema is a common side effect of endothelin receptor antagonists. Ambrisentan is an endothelin type A-selective endothelin receptor antagonist approved for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension. We examined the…
Patients with heart failure (HF) are at high risk of hospitalization or death. The objective of this study was to develop prediction models to identify patients with HF at highest…
Early bereavement is associated with increased cardiovascular events. The mechanism, however, has not been well studied. We assessed whether bereavement is associated with an increased heart rate (HR) and decreased…
Our study objective was to assess the incidence, predictors, and implications of access site complications related to transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). We pooled the prospective TAVI databases of…
Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is a common congenital malformation with the known sequela of ascending aortic dilation. The morphology of the BAV and the elasticity of the adjacent ascending aorta…
Decreased exercise capacity is the main symptom in patients with heart failure (HF). We assessed the association among noninvasively determined maximal cardiac output at exercise, systolic and diastolic cardiac functions…
We thank Dr. Cookson and Dr. Salloum for their interest in our study and possible suggestions for the results we obtained. They suggest that cardiovascular deaths increased in relation to…
As keen investors, we read with interest the study by Schwartz et al showing that the 2008 stock market crash was not associated with an increase in total or cardiac…
Little is known about the epidemiology of stress (takotsubo) cardiomyopathy (SC). We used a 3-arm case–control study to assess differences in demographic and co-morbid predictors of SC compared to orthopedic…
