Howard Burchell—Personal Reminiscences
Bill Roberts has performed a great service by publishing >100 oral history interviews of cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons. His interview of Howard Burchell recorded a dozen years ago provides rich…
Renal Sympathetic Denervation and Systemic Hypertension
Hypertension represents a major health problem, with an appalling annual toll. Despite the plethora of antihypertensive drugs, hypertension remains resistant in a considerable number of patients, thus creating the need…
Triple Therapy: Triple Safety or Triple Danger?
We read the report by Zinn and Feit with great interest. We learned from the article by Zinn and Feit to individualize care and tailor therapy according to the risk…
Erratum for Bray GA, et al. “A Further Subgroup Analysis of the Effects of the DASH Diet and Three Dietary Sodium Levels on Blood Pressure: Results of the DASH-Sodium Trial” Am J Cardiol 2004;94:222–227
In Table 1, the first value under the Systolic BP by Sodium Level (mm Hg) “Higher” column should be 127 ± 9.
Erratum for From AM, et al. “Changes in Diastolic Dysfunction in Diabetes Mellitus Over Time” Am J Cardiol 2009;103:1463–1466
The following acknowledgement should be added to the article: This study was supported by Rochester Epidemiology Project Grant, AR30582-43 , Dr. Walter Rocca, Pl.
Aspirin—A Drug Whose Time Has Gone?
Aspirin has long been regarded as one of the essential drugs in the management of atherothrombotic disease and is widely used in primary and secondary prevention, being regarded as cost…
Structural and Functional Changes in Left and Right Ventricles After Major Weight Loss Following Bariatric Surgery for Morbid Obesity
Obesity and bariatric surgery have been associated with changes in ventricular function and structure. The aim of the present study was to assess the long-term changes in left ventricular (LV)…
The Editor’s Roundtable: Health Reform and Its Implications for Cardiovascular Medicine
Acknowledgment This program is made possible by an unrestricted grant from Abbott Laboratories, Santa Clara, California. Abbott Laboratories did not influence the content, nor do the positions stated necessarily reflect…
Anatomic, Imaging, and Clinical Characteristics of Double-Inlet, Double-Outlet Right Ventricle
The purposes of this study were to characterize the morphologic, imaging, and clinical characteristics of double-inlet, double-outlet right ventricle (DI-DORV), a rare congenital heart disease, and to compare these findings…
Morphologic Features of Exertional Versus Nonexertional Sudden Death in Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Pathologic features that characterize hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC) in exertional versus nonexertional sudden deaths have not been extensively studied. We performed gross measurements and histologic analysis on 103 autopsy cases of…
