Catheter-based treatment of pulmonary embolism (PE) has been demonstrated to be successful in case reports and small series. The investigators report the results of a novel, pharmacomechanical approach with prolonged…
Elevation in plasma activity of von Willebrand factor (vWF) reflects endothelial dysfunction and predicts death in pulmonary arterial hypertension. Higher vWF activity is also associated with a lower right ventricular…
On March 11, 2011, a huge tsunami attacked the northeastern coast of Japan after a magnitude 9 earthquake. No reports have investigated the impact of tsunamis on the incidence of…
A 62-year-old man with a history of 2 previous cardiac catheterizations presented with an itchy, nontender skin lesion over his right scapula. The skin lesion had been present for >5…
Liver transplantation (LT) has not traditionally been offered to patients with intracardiac shunts (ICSs) or pulmonary hypertension (PH). There is a paucity of data regarding cardiac structural characteristics in LT…
Pulmonary valve regurgitation is the most common complication after complete repair of tetralogy of Fallot. The benefits of pulmonary valve replacement (PVR) on right ventricular (RV) volumes is well established….
Findings on electrocardiogram may hint that pulmonary embolism (PE) is present when interpreted in the proper context and lead to definitive imaging tests. However, it would be useful to know…
Cardiomyopathy is the leading cause of death in Friedreich’s ataxia. This autosomal recessive disease is caused by a homozygous guanine-adenine-adenine trinucleotide repeat expansion in the frataxin gene (chromosome 9q21). One…
Although left ventricular (LV) mechanical dyssynchrony can predict the response to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), the presence of baseline LV dyssynchrony might not be the only determinant of the response…
