Key points • Vegetations are oscillating or nonoscillating intracardiac masses on the valves or other endocardial structures or intracardiac implanted materials. • Vegetations are typically located on the upstream side…
Key points • Newer echocardiographic techniques may provide incremental information to help characterize cardiac masses. • Myocardial contrast echocardiography allows an improved definition of intracavity structures and an assessment of…
Key points • Anatomic variants occurring in normal cardiac developments often simulate pathologic entities. • Anatomic variants are particularly common in the right atrium. • Due to the physical properties…
Key points • Baseline ECG in any cardiac or extracardiac tumors is mandatory since therapeutic side effects of chemotherapy on heart are proven. • Comprehensive understanding of the cardiac effect…
Key points • Most heart tumors are benign. Atrial myxomas make for 30%–50% of all primary cardiac tumors. (See Boxes 5.2 and 5.3 .) Box 5.2 Coronary artery disease. Coronary…
Key points • Primary cardiac tumors (PCTs) are extremely rare that may be symptomatic or found incidentally. • The signs and symptoms of cardiac tumors generally are determined by the…
Key Points • Cardiac tumors are being rare, but form an important component of cardio-oncology practice in which diagnosis and management are vital. • Tumors encompass a broad set of…
Heart failure (HF) is a heterogeneous clinical syndrome characterized by symptoms of exercise intolerance. Peak oxygen consumption (VO 2peak ) is considered the gold-standard measurement of exercise/functional capacity in participants…
Use of peripheral vascular intervention (PVI) for intermittent claudication (IC) continues to expand, but there is uncertainty whether baseline demographics, procedural techniques and outcomes differ by sex, race, and ethnicity….
Accurate placement of coronary stents in left anterior descending artery (LAD) ostial locations (Medina 0,1,0) poses technical challenges because of the ambiguity in angiographic ostial separation and issues related to…
