A 66-year-old man with a large secundum atrial septal defect (ASD) that had been repaired percutaneously 30 months previously with an Amplatzer ASD occluder (ASO) presented with fevers and Staphylococcus…
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC) is the most common cause of sudden death in the young but a relatively uncommon disease in clinical practice. Therefore, even the experiences of individual cardiologists and…
Vidi et al reported a 21% prevalence of anxiety or depression in their 34 patients with tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy (TTC), making these mood disorders even more common in this group of…
A recent “state of the art” report on the no-reflow phenomenon (NRP) in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarctions (STEMIs) who undergo primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) brings up thoughts…
Myocardial infarct (MI) size is a well-established prognostic marker but the association of serum markers with MI size, as measured by myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI), has not been well studied…
Echocardiographic findings in the fastest growing segment of our population, the very elderly, are limited in the literature. We performed a retrospective analysis of 431 consecutive nonagenarians who underwent transthoracic…
Right ventricular (RV) dysfunction adversely affects prognosis in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) due to left ventricular (LV) dysfunction. However, little evidence exists regarding the prognostic role of RV…
Although previous studies have documented adherence with certain established heart failure (HF) quality metrics in outpatient cardiology practices, the extent to which there is conformity with other evidence-based, guideline-driven quality…
Exercise training has been shown to be effective in improving exercise capacity and quality of life in patients with heart failure and left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction. Real-time myocardial contrast…
Increased cardiac troponin I (cTnI), a marker for cardiac damage, has been reported after strenuous exercise in young subjects. However, little is known about changes in cTnI after moderate-intensity exercise…
