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Author(s):
RJ Kanter
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3 years ago
Introduction
Compared with patients with structurally normal hearts, there is an even greater need to suppress pathologic tachycardias in patients with congenital heart disease. The decrease in diastolic filling time and potential loss of atrioventricular (AV) synchrony are more poorly tolerated in these patients, proportionate to the degree of underlying systolic and diastolic dysfunction…
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Author(s):
Thomas J Povsic
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3 years ago
The potential of physiological regeneration offered by stem-cell-mediated therapy has captured the imagination of both the public and the scientific community. This is especially true for the cardiovascular and nervous systems, which have long been considered terminally differentiated and post-mitotic with minimal capacity for regeneration and repair.
While the ability of embryonically derived…
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Author(s):
Miho Fukui
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João L Cavalcante
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3 years ago
Degenerative calcific aortic stenosis (AS) is one of the most common valvular heart diseases, affecting >3% of those aged >65 years in the West.1 As a result of an aging population, the prevalence of AS is expected to increase. Severe AS causes chronic pressure overload of the left ventricle (LV), resulting in LV hypertrophy (LVH), diastolic dysfunction, an increase in the size of the left…
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Author(s):
Brian Pearlman
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Taffere Mihretu
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3 years ago
Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a rapidly growing public health problem, affecting nearly five million people in the US alone, with nearly half a million new cases annually.The prevalence of CHF is highest in the elderly; ten out of every 1,000 persons over age 65 are affected. Anemia has been considered a modifiable comorbidity in heart failure. Utilizing the World Health Organization (WHO)…
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Author(s):
Clyde W Yancy
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3 years ago
The US population is characterized by significant racial/ethnic demographic transitions with an emerging number of special populations at risk for cardiovascular disease. Amongst the special populations with heart disease, it is heart failure in African-Americans that has become the prototypical model.
Heart FailureÔÇöAn Enigmatic Disease in African-Americans
Chronic heart failure is no longer…
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Author(s):
William T Abraham
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3 years ago
Hyponatremia is the most common electrolytic abnormality in clinical practice and has a reported incidence of 15–30% in adults.1,2 It is particularly common in heart failure: the Organized Program to Initiate Life Saving Treatment in Patients Hospitalized for Heart Failure (OPTIMIZE-HF) registry recorded that 25.3% of 47,647 heart failure patients had hyponatremia on admission.3 In this registry,…
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Author(s):
Samir R Kapadia
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1 year ago
TCT 22 - In this short interview, Dr Samir Kapadia (Cleveland Clinic, OH, US) outlines the findings of the PROTECTED-TAVR trial, which aimed to demonstrate the performance of Boston Scientific's Sentinel® Cerebral Protection System in transcatheter aortic valve replacement.
In this study, 3000 patients were randomized to receive either TAVR with the Sentinel system or TAVR without intervention…
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Author(s):
Robert Eckel
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3 years ago
The more that is learned about the causes, treatment, and prevention of heart disease and stroke, the more the importance of a shared focus is appreciated. The American Heart Association (AHA) is working toward a 25% reduction in heart disease, stroke, and risk by 2010, and needs the commitment of the entire cardiology community to achieve that goal. The fight against cardiovascular disease is…
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Author(s):
Deepak L Bhatt
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Anna Meta Dyrvig Kristensen
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Manan Pareek
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et al
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3 years ago
Hypertension is an important contributor to global morbidity and mortality and is a major burden on healthcare systems.1,2 More than 20% of the world’s population has high blood pressure when defined by conventional criteria: systolic blood pressure ≥140 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure ≥90 mmHg.3,4 Even with therapeutic lifestyle and pharmacological measures, blood pressure remains poorly…
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