Children with single ventricle (SV) physiology have increased ventricular work and are at risk of heart failure (HF). However, a HF diagnosis is especially difficult, because few objective measures of…
It is not well known whether systemic iron overload per se in hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is associated with cardiac arrhythmias before other signs and symptoms of cardiovascular disease occur. In…
Spontaneous echocardiographic contrast (SEC) is the presence of smoke-like echoes with a characteristic swirling motion of blood in echocardiography. Previous clinical studies have demonstrated that SEC is a risk factor…
Certain patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) do not have increased cardiovascular (CV) risk. The aim of the present study was to stratify hypertensive adults with DM into those…
Good aerobic fitness is associated with favorable cardiovascular outcomes. However, it is not well known whether aerobic fitness correlates to the degree of coronary atherosclerosis, which affects cardiovascular prognosis. The…
The objective of this study was to determine if late use of aspirin before coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with valve surgery affects bleeding events and major adverse cardiovascular events….
In the setting of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), patients at high risk of systemic emboli who undergo primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) using stents might require triple antithrombotic therapy…
After the introduction of drug-eluting stents (DESs), percutaneous coronary intervention with DESs has challenged coronary artery bypass grafting as the gold standard for the treatment of 3-vessel coronary artery disease….
The radial approach in primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has been recently assessed in both randomized and observational studies. However, observational studies have several biases that favor the radial approach….
The prognostic significance of postprocedure sustained ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation (VT/VF) in patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) has rarely been studied,…
