Previous coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) increases operative risk in conventional valve replacement. Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has been shown to be successful in high-risk patient subgroups. The present…
The main eligibility criterion for primary prevention implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) therapy, that is, left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), is based on large clinical trials using primarily 2-dimensional echocardiography (2DE)….
Diabetes mellitus (DM) modify outcome in patients with heart failure (HF). We aimed to analyze the risk for death, HF alone, combined end point HF/death, and ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation (VT/VF)…
Heart failure (HF) hospitalization length of stay (LOS) has been associated with the risk of subsequent readmission and mortality. We identified 19,927 hospitalized patients with HF who were discharged alive from…
Medication nonadherence is a common precipitant of heart failure (HF) hospitalization and is associated with poor outcomes. Recent analyses of national data focus on long-term medication adherence. Little is known about…
The use of prasugrel in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) has been associated with decreased major adverse cardiac events (MACEs) compared with clopidogrel but with an increased risk of…
Despite increasing use of the transradial approach (TRA) for coronary angiography, TRA failure and subsequent access site crossover remain a barrier to TRA adoption. The aim of this study was…
There are limited data on the impact of diabetes mellitus (DM) on the risk of subclinical atherosclerosis. Therefore, we sought to investigate the impact of DM on the risk of…
Co-morbidities have typically been considered as prevalent cardiovascular risk factors and cardiovascular diseases rather than systematic measures of general co-morbidity burden in patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Charlson…
Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) are considered the gold standard for evidence-based medicine. However, an accurate estimation of the event rate is crucial for their ability to test clinical hypotheses. Overestimation…
