Percutaneous closure of an atrial septal defect has been increasingly used, and complications have been rare. We report the case of a 63-year-old man who had undergone endovascular closure of…
Obesity is epidemic in congenital heart disease, with reported rates of 16% to 26% in children and 54% in adults. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact…
The objective of the study is to report the contraceptive methods used by patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) before referral to a specific preconception clinic and evaluate safety and…
Navarese et al recently reported a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials concerning the effect of various types and doses of statins on new-onset diabetes mellitus (DM). The authors concluded that pravastatin 40…
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC) is a hereditary heterogeneous cardiovascular disorder. Existing data have been of predominantly Caucasian samples, and a large study is needed in Chinese population. The present study was…
Patients with mitral stenosis with severe pulmonary hypertension constitute a high-risk subset for surgical commissurotomy or valve replacement. The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of…
Brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) is a marker of systolic and diastolic dysfunction and a strong predictor of mortality in heart failure patients. The present study aimed to assess the relationship…
We sought to determine whether preoperative baseline echocardiographic analysis and the type of surgical procedure are predictive of the magnitude and timing of postoperative left ventricular (LV) remodeling in patients…
Quantitative assessment of aortic regurgitation (AR) remains challenging. The present study evaluated the accuracy of 2-dimensional (2D) and 3-dimensional (3D) transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) for AR quantification, using 3D 3-directional velocity-encoded…
Although a number of publications have described the natural history of patients with aortic stenosis (AS), the definition of “natural history” varies widely. Those describing a large number of patients…
