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Author(s): Emily Seif , Leway Chen , Bruce Goldman Added: 3 years ago
Myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of the myocardium. It has a wide spectrum of severity, with symptoms ranging from mild fevers, shortness of breath, and palpitations to severe hemodynamic collapse. Fulminant myocarditis is a rare form of severe myocarditis that presents with sudden-onset acute heart failure, cardiogenic shock, or life-threatening arrhythmias.1 Prognosis and management of… View more

Heart Failure
Author(s): Steven R Sigman Added: 3 years ago
Although less common than other forms of cardiomyopathy, cardiac sarcoidosis (CS), both as part of a systemic process and in its isolated form, is an important, and increasingly recognized disorder. This is felt to be due, in part, to advances in cardiac imaging and heightened awareness of the disorder.1,2 CS is associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality, including sudden cardiac death… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics
Risk Factors for Aortic Dissection
Author(s): Harold Djodjo Kano , Wei Sun Added: 5 months ago

Vascular Disease and Surgery

Heart Failure
Author(s): Albert Alahmar , Anthony H Gershlick Added: 3 years ago
Drug-eluting stents (DES) have revolutionized the field of interventional cardiology. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expecting that the total number of DES implanted in 2010 will surpass 5 million worldwide. Although initial results seemed promising, longer-term follow-up in a wider range of patients revealed some concerns. Enhanced platelet aggregation, delayed neointimal growth, a… View more

Intervention
Author(s): Dante J Graves , Rick W Meece Added: 3 years ago
Despite significant improvements for earlier detection of and medical therapies for heart failure, a recent American Heart Association (AHA) study stated that the actual incidence of heart failure has not declined. Of interest is the fact that the AHA found hypertension precedes development of heart failure in 91% of cases. The increasing prevalence of these combined disease states escalates the… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

Heart Failure
Author(s): Shaun R Opie , Nabil Dib Added: 3 years ago
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in Western countries. The damage that occurs during a heart attack results from the death and loss of the cells called cardiomyocytes that make up the majority of the myocardium. Medical therapy, balloon angioplasty, stent deployment, coronary artery bypass surgery, and heart transplantation are the current options available to the patient… View more

Vascular Disease and Surgery
A Case of Primary Cardiac B-cell Lymphoma Diagnosed with Cardiac MRI
Author(s): Kevin Lee , Iva Minga , Eryn Cameron , et al Added: 9 months ago

Imaging & Diagnostics

CV Disease in Special Populations
Looking Beyond the Usual Suspects: A Rare Case of Stiff Left Atrial Syndrome after Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer
Author(s): Sukriti Banthiya , Medhat Chowdhury , Harshil Patel , et al Added: 4 months ago
Hein J Wellens
Job title: Emeritus Professor of Cardiology
Dr Hein J Wellens is considered one of the founding fathers of the cardiology subspecialty known as clinical cardiac electrophysiology. Dr Wellens, known among European cardiologists as "the giant of Maastricht", has for many years been associated with the University of Limburg School of Medicine in Maastricht, Netherlands. At his department of cardiology, many future clinical cardiac… View more
Author(s): Peter L Friedman Added: 3 years ago
The Biology of Cryotherapy Cryotherapy is the use of cooling and freezing in living tissue to affect cellular function and activity. To produce cryotherapeutic temperatures, heat energy is removed from the tissue, rather than 'injecting cold energy into the tissue. Multiple factors influence the effectiveness of catheter-based cryotherapy. Chief among these are tip contact (to remove heat from… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia