Whether the relief of chronic right atrial (RA) volume load by device closure of an atrial septal defect (ASD) normalizes RA size is unknown. The present study evaluated the prevalence…
Patients with truncus arteriosus often require pulmonary arterial (PA) and/or right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) reintervention within the first year of repair. However, little is known about the risk factors…
Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is frequently associated with aortic wall abnormalities, including dilation of the ascending aorta and even dissection. We propose 2 new indexes of aortic wall biophysical properties,…
The purpose of the present study was to compare the aortic valve area, aortic valve annulus, and aortic root dimensions measured using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with catheterization, transthoracic echocardiography…
Patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot have a reduced percentage of predicted peak oxygen consumption (VO 2 ) and percentage of oxygen pulse (O 2 P%) compared to healthy controls….
The new high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) assay seems to provide important prognostic information in patients with stable cardiovascular disease. To understand the merit of hs-cTnT more closely in stable…
Studies on psychological morbidity in patients with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) have focused on mean differences rather than intraindividual differences. Such an approach masks the chronicity of symptoms in individual…
There are no parameters predicting the individual probability of “full response” to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). The aim of this work was to find prognostic factors of full clinical and…
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is an established treatment of patients with heart failure. Several baseline characteristics can influence the CRT outcomes, and little is known about the effect of gender….
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is 1 of the most clinically diagnosed cardiac disturbances but little is known about its risk factors. Previous epidemiologic studies have reported on the association between diabetes…
