The Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome: A Very Long Follow-Up
One of the most significant articles in the history of cardiology was published in 1930 under the rather unassuming title, Bundle-branch block with short P-R interval in healthy young people…
Good Books in Cardiovascular Disease Appearing in 2013 and Early 2014
Cardiology Textbooks 1. Chatterjee K, Anderson M, Heistad D, Kerber RE, editors. Cardiology: An Illustrated Textbook. New Delhi: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2013:2099 (Volumes 1 & 2), $231.00. ∗2. Rosendorff…
Restarting Anticoagulation After Major Gastrointestinal Bleeding
We read the recent report of Qureshi et al reporting the outcomes of restarting anticoagulation after gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB) in patients with atrial fibrillation. The investigators found that patients who resumed…
Meta-Analysis of Time-Related Benefits of Statin Therapy in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
Patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACSs) still experience high rates of recurrent coronary events, particularly, early in their presentation. Statins yield substantial cardiovascular benefits, but the optimal timing of their…
Statin Intolerance
The term statin intolerance refers to an inability to use statins because of muscle symptoms or elevated creatine kinase, and the major diagnostic challenge is to unambiguously link these to…
Relation of Interatrial Block to New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation in Patients With Chagas Cardiomyopathy and Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators
Chagas cardiomyopathy is an endemic disease in Latin America. A significant proportion of patients develop atrial fibrillation (AF), which may result in stroke and increased morbidity or mortality. Interatrial block…
Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia Back in Force
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD) was first recognized in 1977 during a surgery to map and treat ventricular tachycardia at the Hôpital de La Salpêtrière. We first found that the…
Usefulness of Electrocardiographic Parameters for Risk Prediction in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia
The value of electrocardiographic findings predicting adverse outcome in patients with arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD) is not well known. We hypothesized that ventricular depolarization and repolarization abnormalities on the…
Incidence and Influence of Hospitalization for Recurrent Syncope and Its Effect on Short- and Long-Term All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality
Recurrence of syncope is a common event, but the influence of recurrent syncope on the risk of death has not previously been investigated on a large scale. We examined the…
Yield of Noncardiac Biopsy for the Diagnosis of Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis
Transthyretin (ATTR) cardiac amyloidosis may be because of mutant transthyretin causing familial amyloid cardiomyopathy (FAC) or wild-type transthyretin causing systemic senile amyloidosis (SSA). Histologic confirmation is often challenging and may…
