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Contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging (CEUS) is a non-invasive imaging modality that utilizes air-filled microspheres as blood pool agents, which act as intravascular indicators, resulting in improved accuracy and reliability in performing ultrasound images of the heart. CEUS is increasingly used throughout the US, South America, Australia, the Middle East, Europe, Japan, Canada, and Asia as a…
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A significant proportion of patients for whom statins are prescribed discontinue their therapy or take it incorrectly. Large cohort studies in a variety of settings have confirmed high rates of discontinuation of lipid lowering therapies and poor adherence to drug regimens.1-5 Not suprisingly, there is a failure to reach targets for lipid lowering in current practice.6 Further, nonadherence has…
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The complications of atherosclerotic disease comprise the primary cause of mortality in the world today. Acute complications such as sudden cardiac death, myocardial infarction and stroke are typically due to the formation of a intra-arterial thrombus at the site of a rupture or erosion of an atherosclerotic lesion, with platelet activation and aggregation central to thrombus formation. Aspirin,…
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Heart failure (HF) is a common condition and carries a considerable age-dependent all-cause mortality. As a leading cause of hospitalization in adults, ~50% of patients discharged with a diagnosis of HF are readmitted within six months, and the one-year mortality rate is 20% after an initial diagnosis is established. There is currently a chronic HF epidemic with a rapidly expanding prevalence…
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Heart failure (HF) is a common condition and carries a considerable age-dependent all-cause mortality.1 As a leading cause of hospitalization in adults, ~50% of patients discharged with a diagnosis of HF are readmitted within six months, and the one-year mortality rate is 20% after an initial diagnosis is established. There is currently a chronic HF epidemic with a rapidly expanding prevalence…
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Premature ventricular complexes (PVCs) in the absence of underlying structural heart disease have long been viewed as benign. Early studies with small population sizes and limited cardiac testing suggested that long-term prognosis in patients with idiopathic PVCs is similar to those in patients without other cardiac disease, and treatment was consequently limited to provide…
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Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most commonly sustained cardiac arrhythmia observed in clinical practice with a prevalence of over 2,200,000 adults in the US. The prevalence of AF increases with age, from <1% among persons <60 years of age, to approximately 10% among those aged ÔëÑ80 years. AF is associated with an increased long-term risk of stroke, heart failure, and all-cause mortality…
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Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most commonly sustained cardiac arrhythmia observed in clinical practice with a prevalence of over 2,200,000 adults in the US.1 The prevalence of AF increases with age, from <1% among persons <60 years of age, to approximately 10% among those aged ÔëÑ80 years.2 AF is associated with an increased long-term risk of stroke, heart failure, and all-cause mortality…
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