Coronary artery aneurysms that occur in 25% of untreated Kawasaki disease (KD) patients may remain clinically silent for decades and then thrombose resulting in myocardial infarction. Although KD is now…
Smoke-free ordinance implementation and advances in smoking cessation (SC) treatment have occurred in the past decade; however, little is known about their impact on SC in patients with coronary artery…
Described are certain clinical and morphologic features of one patient with acute , another with subacute , and one with chronic cor pulmonale. All 3 had evidence of severe pulmonary…
We enjoyed the recent review from the Cleveland Clinic describing outcomes of patients with mitral regurgitation treated with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). We first described this technique with a small…
Because of its unique hemodynamic features, constrictive pericarditis may be identified using 2-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography. An important component of a “constriction-protocol” echocardiogram is the tissue Doppler assessment of the early…
A spiral phenomenon is sometimes noted in the plots of CO 2 output (VCO 2 ) against O 2 uptake (VO 2 ) measured during cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPX) in…
Patients admitted to today’s cardiac intensive care units (CICUs) have increasingly complex medical conditions; consequently, palliative care is becoming an integral component of their care. Although there is a robust…
Ventricular strain and dyssynchrony can be measured in patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), but their effect on clinical outcomes is poorly understood. The purpose of this study was to…
Recent studies have highlighted differences in how older patients respond to high-risk pulmonary embolism (PE) and treatment. However, guidelines for PE risk stratification and treatment are not based on age,…
Severely symptomatic patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC) may benefit from surgical myectomy. In patients with enlarged mitral leaflets and mitral regurgitation, myectomy can be combined with anterior mitral leaflet…
