There is a general sense that most outcomes trials in patients receiving dialysis failed to yield statistically significant benefits, in contrast to many cardiovascular (CV) trials in the general population….
Two recent studies in the New England Journal of Medicine attempted to cast some light on the question how percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) compares to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)…
The prognostic implications of several baseline preprocedural variables in patients with severe native valve aortic stenosis (AS) undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) are unclear. The goal of this study…
The red blood cell distribution width (RDW) is a quantitative measure of the variability in the size of circulating erythrocytes. We aimed to study whether higher levels of the RDW…
Electrocardiographic voltage has been used to determine the presence of left ventricular hypertrophy for about 70 years. Varying electrocardiographic criteria have been applied. We have found total 12-lead QRS voltage to…
The impact of antithrombotics on cancer is currently under intense investigation because of the excess of solid cancers in trials after thienopyridines such as TRITON (prasugrel), DAPT (prasugrel and clopidogrel),…
Evaluation and treatment of cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) suffer from lack of sensitive and easily repeatable markers of disease activity. We studied measurements of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T or troponin I…
Outcome is better in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDC) than in ischemic heart failure (HF), but morbidity and mortality are nevertheless presumed to be substantial. Most data on the…
Careful evaluation, including provocation tests, is needed to specify an indication for septal reduction therapy in patients with drug-refractory hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. This study aimed to evaluate the outcome of…
