Renal dysfunction is a major risk factor for peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Infrapopliteal PAD is associated with more co-morbid conditions and worse prognosis than suprapopliteal PAD. Long-term outcomes of patients…
Still today, bifurcation PCI represents a challenge and complex setting for interventionists. Above all, final kissing balloon inflation (KBI) is yet strongly debated. Provisional T-stenting approach with final KBI to…
A young woman with an atrial septal defect and the Eisenmenger syndrome has worsening symptoms and electrocardiographic changes of right ventricular hypertrophy five years later. Right-axis deviation with an rsR′s′…
Catheter-directed interventions (CDI) are increasingly used for the treatment of acute pulmonary embolism (PE), despite the scarcity of comparative prospective data. Although systemic thrombolysis improves the PE hemodynamic profile, this…
Hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, diabetes, and smoking are the major modifiable risk factors for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States (US). With the…
Patients with genetic cardiomyopathy that involves myocardial hypertrophy often develop clinically relevant arrhythmias that increase the risk of sudden death. Consequently, guidelines for medical device therapy were established for hypertrophic…
Sudden cardiovascular events account for approximately 45% to 50% of all duty-related deaths among firefighters and a disproportionate number of these fatalities occur after strenuous fire suppression activities. The purpose…
Heart transplantation (HT) increases at some centers each year and decreases at others. We examined characteristics of patients having HT at the same hospital in 2 different time periods (1997–2012…
Prolonged endurance-type exercise is associated with elevated cardiac troponin (cTn) levels in asymptomatic recreational athletes. It is unclear whether exercise-induced cTn release mirrors a physiological or pathological underlying process. The…
It has been suggested that lipoprotein abnormalities may contribute to the pulmonary arteriolar dysfunction observed in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). High-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL) has vasodilatory, anti-inflammatory, and endothelial protective…
