Patients with psoriasis may have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and myocardial infarction. The aim of this study was to investigate whether psoriasis is associated with an increased prevalence…
We welcome the opportunity to respond to Finsterer and Stöllberger’s comment and thank these investigators for their interest in our report. Finsterer and Stöllberger continue to use the term “left…
We read with interest the report by Greutmann et al on the predictors of adverse outcomes in adult patients with noncompaction, also known as left ventricular hypertrabeculation (LVHT). We have…
We acknowledge that it is possible that the proportion of very late stent thrombosis using 1 minus the Kaplan-Meier curve might have biased our estimate of the number of stent…
I read with interest the recent report by Barone-Rochette et al describing the 6-year follow-up of the EVASTENT (Cost-Effectiveness of Sirolimus-Eluting Stents in Patients With and Without Diabetes) matched-cohort registry….
Just 3 weeks before his 91st birthday, my father, J. Willis Hurst, died at Emory University Hospital on October 1, 2011. He had spent the last week of his life…
In their recently published report, Taglieri et al reported the 1-year prognoses of patients presenting with non–ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes with ST-segment depression in ≥1 electrocardiographic (ECG) leads accompanied…
In their recent study, Fuller et al investigated the incidence of nausea and vomiting in 180 patients with ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarctions (STEMIs) or acute myocardial infarctions (AMIs) associated…
To quote Captain Willard (played by Martin Sheen) in the movie Apocalypse Now , “There is no way to tell you his story without telling you my own.” Of course,…
I was fortunate as a junior medical student in 1957 to spend a 3-week rotation on Willis Hurst’s medical service at Emory University Hospital. It was during that period that…
