A 55-year-old Portuguese man with no significant family history was treated for 10 years for progressive hypertrophic restrictive cardiomyopathy. A cardiac magnetic resonance imaging scan performed 3 months before his…
Coronary artery aneurysms are rare and giant forms (> 2 cm diameter) are even less common, with a prevalence of 0.02% and spontaneous rupture rarely observed. Most aneurysms in young…
A 30-year-old woman was referred with epigastralgia. Physical examination was normal, electrocardiography detected a low atrial rhythm of 45 beats per minute ( Fig. 1 , arrow ), chest X-ray…
Summary Despite a wide choice of effective antihypertensive treatments, blood pressure (BP) in roughly half of hypertensive subjects is not controlled. Resistant hypertension is defined as an uncontrolled BP despite…
Acute coronary obstruction in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is not necessarily atherothrombotic: intraplaque haemorrhage and the resulting intra-adventitial haematoma may also be implicated, spreading longitudinally along the coronary artery,…
Summary Background Risk assessment is fundamental in the management of acute coronary syndromes (ACS), enabling estimation of prognosis. Aims To evaluate whether the combined use of GRACE and CRUSADE risk…
Summary Background In STEMI patients treated by primary PCI, damage of the microvascular circulation caused by distal embolization of thrombotic material affects the quality of myocardial reperfusion. Important controversies remain…
Summary Background Remote monitoring (RM) is increasingly used to follow up patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs). Randomized control trials provide evidence for the benefit of this intervention, but data for…
Summary Background Studies on the association between family history of cardiovascular disease and arterial stiffness are rare. Aims This study evaluated the possible relationship between family history of cardiovascular disease…
Summary Background Studies on intracardiac echocardiography for transcatheter closure of secundum atrial septal defect (ASD) only include ASDs ≤ 38 mm diameter without rim deficiency. Aims To assess transcatheter closure…
