A 33-year-old woman with an anomalous left coronary artery arising from the pulmonary artery who had undergone Takeuchi repair at age 7 years presented for evaluation. The Takeuchi procedure creates…
More than 25 years ago, dual-chamber pacing was promoted as a specific treatment remedy and panacea for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC), in the absence of conduction system disease. Considerable enthusiasm for this…
Marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug, with approximately 200 million users worldwide. Once illegal throughout the United States, cannabis is now legal for medicinal purposes in several states…
When the right atrial pressure (RAP) exceeds the left atrial pressure, right-to-left shunting can occur. Normally, the Valsalva maneuver is used to facilitate elevation of RAP. However, performing the Valsalva…
Decreased arterial compliance is an early manifestation of adverse structural and functional changes within the vessel wall. Its correlation with left ventricular (LV) area on computed tomography, a marker of…
Uncorrected congenital heart disease (CHD) frequently leads to pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), the most severe form of which is Eisenmenger syndrome (ES). We compared patients with idiopathic or heritable PAH…
Endothelial dysfunction is considered an important prognostic factor in atherosclerosis. To determine the long-term association of brachial artery flow-mediated dilation (FMD) and adverse cardiovascular (CV) events in healthy subjects, we…
Vascular calcium is well studied in the coronary and peripheral arteries, although there are limited data focusing on calcium deposits specific to renal arteries. The associations among renal artery calcium…
Patients with atrial fibrillation, who are referred for radiofrequency pulmonary vein antral isolation, frequently undergo transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) to detect and/or exclude left atrial or left atrial appendage (LAA) thrombus…
Energy drink (ED) consumption has been linked to several adverse event reports, but there is limited data on related cardiovascular (CV) complications. We describe clinical characteristics, ED consumption profile, co-ingestions,…
