INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Pulmonary embolism (PE) results in at least 630,000 symptomatic episodes in the United States yearly, making it about half as common as acute myocardial infarction, and…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The most common heart valve affected by infective endocarditis (IE) is the aortic valve. Fortunately, significant progress has been made in our understanding and management of…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen For over 40 years, cardiac and lung transplantation have achieved remarkable one-year patient survivals beyond 90% and conditional half-lives of 13 and 7.9 years, respectively.1 While…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The number of patients with heart failure is growing. End-stage heart failure is associated with significant morbidity, need for recurrent hospitalizations, decrease in quality of life,…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The pericardium envelops the heart and portions of the great vessels as a protective capsule. When incised longitudinally and transversely along the diaphragm it can be…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The Greek physician Galen first described superficial false aneurysms arising from venesection in the antecubital fossa and in gladiators injured during battle in the second century…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Adults with congenital heart disease now outnumber children with this malady. They constitute a growing population of survivors, with increasingly complex treatment requirements for their heart…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Atrial fibrillation (AF) remains the most common arrhythmia in the world.1 It is associated with significant morbidity and mortality secondary to its detrimental sequelae: (1) palpitations…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Interventional therapies for the treatment of heart rhythm disorders have rapidly evolved over the past three decades, and continue to go through significant evolution. Though management…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Tissue engineering is a developing science, comprising elements of engineering and biology, whose aim is to build replacement tissues de novo, from individual cellular and structural…
