Described are certain clinical and morphologic features of one patient with acute , another with subacute , and one with chronic cor pulmonale. All 3 had evidence of severe pulmonary…
We enjoyed the recent review from the Cleveland Clinic describing outcomes of patients with mitral regurgitation treated with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). We first described this technique with a small…
Because of its unique hemodynamic features, constrictive pericarditis may be identified using 2-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography. An important component of a “constriction-protocol” echocardiogram is the tissue Doppler assessment of the early…
A spiral phenomenon is sometimes noted in the plots of CO 2 output (VCO 2 ) against O 2 uptake (VO 2 ) measured during cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPX) in…
Patients admitted to today’s cardiac intensive care units (CICUs) have increasingly complex medical conditions; consequently, palliative care is becoming an integral component of their care. Although there is a robust…
Ventricular strain and dyssynchrony can be measured in patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), but their effect on clinical outcomes is poorly understood. The purpose of this study was to…
Recent studies have highlighted differences in how older patients respond to high-risk pulmonary embolism (PE) and treatment. However, guidelines for PE risk stratification and treatment are not based on age,…
Severely symptomatic patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC) may benefit from surgical myectomy. In patients with enlarged mitral leaflets and mitral regurgitation, myectomy can be combined with anterior mitral leaflet…
The diagnostic yield of continuous electrocardiographic (ECG) monitoring in children for periods longer than a Holter monitor is unclear. The aim of this study was to characterize diagnostic yield, arrhythmia…
Although ventricular premature complexes (VPCs) have been shown to correlate with decreased cardiac function in adults, the correlation of left ventricular (LV) function to VPCs in asymptomatic children remains unclear….
