The straight forward DANAMI-3–PRIMULTI trial showed that patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction and multivessel disease, who had timely primary percutaneous coronary intervention, benefitted from fractional flow reserve–guided revascularizations of lesions…
I read the contribution by Gopalakrishnan et al, published on line ahead of print on September 3, 2015 in the American Journal of Cardiology , about the predictors of short-term and…
I read the interesting report by Y-Hassan et al, published online ahead of print, on September 3, 2015, in the American Journal of Cardiology , about a 64-year-old woman who suffered…
Previous authors have suggested a higher likelihood for industry-sponsored (IS) studies to have positive outcomes than non-IS studies, though the influence of publication bias was believed to be a likely…
A 53-year-old man, a former smoker with a history of hyperlipidemia, came to the hospital because of 4 weeks of chest pain occurring with walking. He underwent a treadmill exercise test…
A growing number of solid organ transplant survivors require surgery for cardiac disease. We examined the effect of having a previous transplant on outcomes after cardiac surgery in these patients…
Although several studies have shown the relation between temperature/atmospheric pressure and pulmonary embolism (PE), their results are inconsistent. Furthermore, diurnal temperature range (DTR) and diurnal pressure range (DPR) were not…
The 35-year perspective as to prognosis and management of myocardial infarction by Chen et al offered an interesting analysis as to the historic epidemiology of the diagnosis and treatment of myocardial…
One of the most vexing interactions between statisticians and clinicians/scientists is the discussion about power and sample size calculations. We statisticians do not expect everyone to understand the detailed machinery…
Aging is associated with calcium deposits in various cardiovascular structures, but patterns of calcium deposition, if any, are unknown. In search of such patterns, we performed quantitative assessment of mitral…
