Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is an established treatment for heart failure patients with myocardial dysfunction and delayed ventricular activation, but approximately 25% to 40% of patients do not respond to…
The prognostic effects of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) are inconsistent in recent reports on heart failure (HF). Generally, participants in previous trials were relatively young and had HF with reduced ejection…
Although His bundle pacing (HBP) can provide a physiologic ventricular activation pattern, it has disadvantages such as the difficulty of lead implantation, reduced R wave amplitudes, and high and unstable…
Depression increases the risk of mortality in patients with heart failure (HF). Less is known about whether depression predicts multiple readmissions or whether multiple hospitalizations worsen depression in patients with…
The incidence of new-onset secondary atrial fibrillation (NOSAF) is as high as 44% in noncardiac critical illness. A systematic review and meta-analysis were performed to evaluate the impact of NOSAF,…
Distal radial artery access (DRA) is recommended as the preferred approach over the traditional proximal radial artery access (TRA) for coronary procedures; however, there are limited randomized controlled trials (RCTs)…
The optimal timing of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in patients after an acute myocardial infarction (MI) is unknown. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies comparing mortality…
Recently, one observational study showed that patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) without standard cardiovascular risk factors were associated with increased mortality compared with patients with risk factors. This…
Highlights • Layered plaque, an optical coherence tomography equivalent of healed plaque, has been gaining attention. • Burden of plaque layer in relation to layered plaque characteristics was evaluated. •…
Exercise stress testing is routinely performed to evaluate suspected coronary artery disease in older adults. However, the available data to predict and compare relative exercise capacity in the general population…
