Although transcatheter aortic valve implantation has been available for 10 years, reports of cardiovascular morphologic studies after the procedure are virtually nonexistent. The investigators describe such findings in 2 patients,…
In the ANCHOR trial publication, Ballantyne et al, evaluating AMR101 (icosapent ethyl) for the treatment of mixed dyslipidemia, concluded that omega-3 fatty acids containing only eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) lower low-density lipoprotein…
We welcome the opportunity to respond to Dr. Baum’s comments regarding the use of light liquid paraffin (LLP) as the study placebo and placebo-adjusted values for our recently published results…
Ambrosy et al recently reported cardiotoxicity attributed to coronary spasm in 5 patients with cancer who underwent treatment with the 5-fluorouracil (5FU) prodrug capecitabine. All were subsequently rechallenged with capecitabine after…
Vitamin D and parathyroid hormone (PTH) may affect cardiovascular health in patients with kidney disease and in the general population. The aim of this study was to investigate associations of…
The investigators describe the clinical course of a 26-year-old-man who was brought to the emergency department in a comatose state with status epilepticus after smoking a large amount of crack…
We read the recent Readers’ Comment by García-Niebla et al demonstrating that applying a nonstandard high-pass filter of 0.5 Hz can artificially distort the ST-segment and terminal portion of the T wave, resulting in…
Dual-antiplatelet therapy with aspirin plus a P2Y 12 receptor inhibitor is recommended for use as first-line therapy in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) who undergo high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention….
We evaluated the cross-sectional associations of N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) with cardiac structural and functional abnormalities in a cohort of patients with chronic kidney disease without clinical heart failure,…
Despite the existence of several risk scores, the accurate prediction of the prognosis in pulmonary embolism (PE) remains a challenge. The Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) risk score…
