BACKGROUND: Septal reduction therapy (SRT) provides substantial symptomatic improvement in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). However, long-term disease course after SRT and ...
Background: Patients with heart failure (HF) with mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction face heightened long-term risks of morbidity and mortality. The sodium glucose-co-transporter-2 ...
BACKGROUND: Achievement of guideline-recommended levels of physical activity (≥150 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical ...
Background: Substernal lead placement of the extravascular implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (EV ICD) permits both defibrillation at thresholds similar to those seen with transvenous ICDs and ...
Short-coupled ventricular fibrillation (SCVF) is increasingly being recognized as a distinct primary electrical disorder and cause of otherwise unexplained cardiac arrest. However, the pathophysiology ...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects >850 million people globally and is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease ...
BACKGROUND: An interatrial shunt may provide an autoregulatory mechanism to decrease left atrial pressure and improve heart failure (HF) symptoms and prognosis. METHODS: Patients with symptomatic HF ...
People who experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrest often require care at a regional center for continued treatment after resuscitation, but many do not initially present to the hospital where they ...
The European Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension registry (CTEPH), conducted between 2007 and 2012, reported the major impact of pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA) on the long-term survival of ...