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Author(s):
G Michael Felker
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Christopher B Granger
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3 years ago
Chronic heart failure is common, disabling and deadly. It affects approximately five million people in the US and accounts for over one million hospitalizations annually. Despite continued improvements in heart failure therapy, mortality over five years is approximately 50%.This article summarizes significant recent developments in pharmacologic and device therapy for heart failure.
Angiotensin…
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Transesophageal Echocardiography
Author(s):
Bijoy K Khandheria
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3 years ago
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Cardiac Markers—Facilitating Diagnosis and Exclusion of Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome
Author(s):
Judd E Hollander
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3 years ago
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Author(s):
Karthik Seetharam
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Sirish Shrestha
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Partho P Sengupta
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3 years ago
Numerous advances in cardiovascular imaging technology paralleled by the simultaneous growth in wearable technology, mobile health devices, and electronic medical record integration have encouraged increasingly complex and large multi-dimensional data acquisition.1 The influx of data with each scan is exponentially rising in all cardiovascular imaging modalities and will exceed the capabilities…
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Author(s):
Mark Huffman
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Vallerie V McLaughlin
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3 years ago
Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (formerly referred to as primary pulmonary hypertension) is an uncommon yet progressively fatal disease defined by the presence of mean pulmonary artery pressure greater than 25mmHg at rest or greater than 30mmHg with exercise as tested by right heart catheterization in the absence of other etiologies for pulmonary hypertension. Across several studied…
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Author(s):
Braghadheeswar Thyagarajan
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Ankur Kalra
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Alefiyah Rajabali
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et al
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3 years ago
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), with a reported prevalence of AF in HCM of about 25 %.1 Patients with AF in HCM tend to be more symptomatic and have an increased stroke risk compared with patients without HCM.2 While the occurrence and treatment of (symptomatic) AF in HCM have been extensively studied, there is little data…
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Author(s):
Shubhayan Sanatani
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3 years ago
In children and young adults, sudden cardiac death (SCD) occurs in approximately 1-2 per 100,000 population.1,2 While the overwhelming majority of occurrences of SCD occur in the adult population and are due to ischemic heart disease, very few cases in a pediatric population are. Pediatric SCD is a relatively uncommon occurrence whose underlying etiology often remains elusive. A long list of…
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Author(s):
Mark Huffman
,
Vallerie V McLaughlin
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3 years ago
Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (formerly referred to as primary pulmonary hypertension) is an uncommon yet progressively fatal disease defined by the presence of mean pulmonary artery pressure greater than 25mmHg at rest or greater than 30mmHg with exercise as tested by right heart catheterization in the absence of other etiologies for pulmonary hypertension. Across several studied…
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Author(s):
Christopher R deFilippi
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G Michael Felker
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3 years ago
Biomarkers have become central to the management of cardiovascular disease, and their potential clinical applications continue to grow. This article reviews galectin-3 (Gal-3), a novel biomarker of fibrosis and remodeling, and its clinical application in heart failure (HF).
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Case Study One
A 63-year-old African-American female presents to the emergency department with acute dyspnea…
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Author(s):
Christopher M Kramer
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3 years ago
Atherosclerosis is a systemic disease that can silently affect the entire vascular system and often manifests clinically as stroke, myocardial infarction or sudden cardiac death. Despite advances in diagnosis and treatment, the sequelae of atherosclerosis remain the leading cause of death in adult Americans. Traditionally the gold standard for the diagnosis and assessment of atherosclerosis…
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