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Jeroen J Bax
Job title: Director, Echo Laboratory & Non-invasive Imaging, Department of Cardiology
Personal History Dr Jeroen Joost Bax was born in Amsterdam and was the first member of his family to study medicine. As a professor, Dr Bax has mentored over 60 international PhD students in his cardiac imaging research centre at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and his students have achieved prominent positions at medical institutions throughout the world.1 “I care a lot about the… View more
Risk of Complications During Pregnancy in Women with Congenital Aortic Valve Stenosis
Author(s): Els Troost , Werner Budts Added: 3 years ago
The prevalence of heart disease in pregnant women is estimated to be between 0.1 and 4%; although the prevalence has not changed for decades, the relative contribution of different types of heart disease varies according to the study population and the study period. Nowadays, in developed countries the largest group of females with an underlying heart disease consists of women with congenital… View more

Heterogeneous Populations

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Coarctation: A Review
Author(s): Marc G Cribbs Added: 3 years ago
The incidence of congenital heart disease (CHD) is slightly less than 1% of all live births.1 With extensive medical and surgical innovation over the past 50 years, and the high-quality care received in childhood, 85–90% of children with CHD in the US survive into adulthood. As a result, the number of adults with congenital heart defects in the US now exceeds 1 million, with a projected continued… View more

Heterogeneous Populations
Job title: Consultant Interventional Cardiologist
John Rawlins is a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist with a specialist interest in complex coronary and transcatheter valve intervention at University Hospital Southampton (UHS) NHS Trust, having been appointed in 2016. He currently leads the TAVI team at UHS.He qualified from Imperial College School of Medicine in 2003, having completed a BSc in Physiology at University College London in… View more
Impact of Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction on the Correlation between Congestion Biomarkers and Blood Volume Measurements in Heart Failure
Author(s): Veraprapas Kittipibul , Marat Fudim Added: 4 months ago
Author(s): Howard C Herrmann Added: 3 years ago
Mitral regurgitation (MR) is most often caused by degenerative disease of the leaflets or develops functionally as a consequence of left ventricular disease (see Figure 1). Patients with severe MR have dyspnea on exertion, fatigue, and, when associated with left ventricular dysfunction or pulmonary hypertension, reduced survival.1 Therefore, surgery to repair or replace the mitral valve is… View more

Vascular Disease and Surgery

Intervention
Richard Sutton
Research Area(s) / Expertise: Job title: Emeritus Professor of Clinical Cardiology, DSc
Personal History Professor Richard Sutton was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Great Britain in 1940. His father was an ENT specialist. “I decided to be a doctor at the age of 15. My father told me if I want to be a doctor, I had to work hard. I graduated from high school with the best grade.” 5 His first job was at Plymouth General Hospital as a house surgeon in General Surgery. He decided… View more
Author(s): Bijoy K Khandheria Added: 3 years ago
Cardiovascular ultrasound is an established imaging modality in the practice of cardiovascular disease (CVD), whether this is provided by a CV specialist or health professionals with training in internal medicine. Transthoracic imaging wherein the transducer is placed on the chest wall has some limitations. These include inadequate quality of images resulting in poor informationÔÇöapproximately 5… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics
Author(s): Peter H Brubaker Added: 3 years ago
Heart failure (HF), most simply defined as the inability of the heart to meet the demands of the tissue, results in symptoms of fatigue or dyspnea on exertion (progressing to dyspnea at rest), and is a costly and deadly disorder.1 HF is the only cardiovascular disease entity where the incidence is currently increasing. In 1991 there were ‘just’ 3.5 million reported cases of HF in the US; however,… View more

Heart Failure

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Author(s): Hillel A Steiner , Yonathan Hasin Added: 3 years ago
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) remains a public health problem of immense magnitude, afflicting an estimated 300,000 persons per year in the US.1 SCD, defined as death occurring within one hour from symptom-onset, is associated with ischemic heart disease in 80% of cases. Approximately one-third of cases are the result of an acute occlusion of an epicardial coronary artery.2 Some 50% of the mortality… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia

Prevention & Chronic Conditions