Four patients are described with either parchment-like thinning or partial but extensive myocyte depletion with severe fatty or fibrofatty infiltration of the free wall of the right ventricle in its…
Although numerous strategies for radiation dose decrease in coronary computed tomographic angiography are effective, their combined impact on diagnostic performance is not known. We therefore assessed the effect of a…
I read with great interest Roberts et al’s report on the natural history of syphilitic aortitis. With regard to their information about the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis (TSUS), 3…
The impact of baseline systolic blood pressure (SBP) on outcomes in patients with advanced chronic systolic heart failure (HF) has not been studied using a propensity-matched design. Of the 2,706…
Although several investigations have demonstrated that prolonged aerobic exercise results in decreased left ventricular (LV) function, few have examined the impact of an acute bout of high-intensity exercise on right…
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a well-recognized complication of left-sided heart failure with preserved left ventricular systolic function that portends a worse prognosis. The identification of risk factors may provide insight…
The sentence in the first paragraph that begins “However, among the 30 patients who did undergo CABG,” in reference to the Trial to Assess Improvement in Therapeutic Outcomes by Optimizing…
In a recent issue of The American Journal of Cardiology ( AJC ), an editorial appears that comments on mortality in the Trial to Assess Improvement in Therapeutic Outcomes by…
The clinicopathology report by Roberts et al of 4 cases of arrhythmogenic right ventricular (RV) cardiomyopathy (ARVC; including 2 previously neglected examples reported by Waller et al in 1980 under…
The study by Gaglia et al shows an association between proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in patients with drug-eluting stents who are taking clopidogrel. However, the…
