BACKGROUND: Evaluation of whether dyspnea has a cardiac cause is essential. Guidelines from 2016 were reported to result in a high incidence of indeterminate left ventricular (LV) filling pressure. We ...

Research studies in cardiovascular epidemiology assessing the relationship between a primary exposure and a health outcome must account for the presence of what are often called third variables, ...

BACKGROUND: Penetrance and risk of ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) are increasingly recognized as being genotype specific. Therefore, ...

BACKGROUND: Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is substantially influenced by genetic factors. Sarcomere function is intricately associated with other organelles, particularly the reciprocal regulation ...

Kleindorfer DO, Towfighi A, Chaturvedi S, Cockroft KM, Gutierrez J, Lombardi-Hill D, Kamel H, Kernan WN, Kittner SJ, Leira EC, et al. 2021 Guideline for the prevention of stroke in patients with ...

The protein risk score formula developed from the UKB-PPP derivation set was composed of 165 unique plasma proteins, and 15 of them were associated with atrial remodeling. In the UKB-PPP test set, a 1 ...

The 2023 Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Events (PREVENT) equations estimate the risk of incident cardiovascular disease (CVD). Developed and validated in 25 data sets with >6 million ...

Graphical AbstractPatients with native AS undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement evaluation from 2019 to 2020 who underwent TTE and contrast-enhanced CT were retrospectively studied (n=1035 ...

Ultrasound‐enhancing agents (UEAs) improve diagnostic transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) in selected cardiac patients. UEA use has been embraced by the cardiology community, and there is now an ...

BACKGROUND: Carotid web is a rare and likely underrecognized cause of ischemic stroke, particularly in young patients. Given the high risk of recurrence, diagnostic delays may have serious ...

BACKGROUND: Long-term outcomes and quality of life have been identified as core patient-centered outcomes for venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) research. The aim of this study ...

Background: The PRAETORIAN trial investigated the efficacy and safety of the subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (S-ICD) compared with transvenous ICD (TV-ICD) and showed ...