Standard therapy, consisting of intravenous immunoglobulin and aspirin, reduces, but does not eliminate, coronary artery aneurysms (CAAs) in patients with Kawasaki disease. Large CAAs can persist or undergo varying degrees…
Cardiovascular anomalies are present in 80% of neonates with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. Three genes in chromosome 22q11.2 (TBX1, CRKL, and ERK2) have been identified whose haploinsufficiency causes dysfunction of the…
Our study investigated the abnormal right ventricular systolic pressure response (RVPR) in young patients with isolated atrial septal defect (ASD) or ventricular septal defect (VSD). An abnormal RVPR >50 mm…
Carcinoid heart disease is a rare disease, and its prevalence is uncertain. The aim of the present prospective study was to assess the prevalence of carcinoid heart disease using annual…
The aim of this study was to investigate whether patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC) and sleep disordered breathing (SDB) have a higher prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) compared to patients…
The right ventricular (RV) volume is commonly measured from magnetic resonance images using Simpson’s method from the stack of short-axis images acquired for analysis of the left ventricle. We compared…
Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC) is an uncommon variant of nonobstructive HC with peculiar characteristics. The investigators report a series of 13 consecutive Caucasian patients with a suspicion or diagnosis of…
Total plasma homocysteine (tHcy) is an independent risk factor for coronary artery disease, and tHcy is lowered by B vitamins. To assess the effect of homocysteine-lowering B-vitamin treatment on angiographic…
The status of neointimal coverage on the drug-eluting stent (DES) struts, which are placed across the side-branch vessels, remains unclear. The degree of neointimal coverage of stent struts crossing the…
Apolipoprotein E4 (apoE4) is a positively charged proinflammatory apolipoprotein bound to high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol and remnant lipoproteins. ApoE4 is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease….
