Jul 26, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to evaluate dabigatran's effectiveness and safety compared to standard care for atrial fibrillation (AF) caused by left-sided valvular heart disease (VHD), including mi...

Jul 26, 2022

Smoking was linked to a higher incidence of acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) in children and adolescents. For a study, researchers looked into the relationship between smoking status 1...

Jul 26, 2022

There was disagreement over the best time to repair a postinfarction ventricular septal defect (PI-VSD). Using the proper International Classification of Diseases, Ninth and Tenth Revision Procedure C...

Jul 25, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to investigate how fragile patients hospitalized with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) were managed, treated, and used resources. The Nationwide Inpat...

Jul 22, 2022

A third of deaths worldwide and one-fourth of deaths in the United States were caused by cardiovascular (CV) disease. Results of CVs from earlier studies that looked at the relationship between socioe...

Jul 22, 2022

In the population with diabetes mellitus (DM), the relationship between vascular disease and the outcomes of individuals with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has not been established. In the Nationa...

Jul 22, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to explore morphological dynamics and their link with patient features and clinical outcomes in a large cohort of nonapical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC) patients wh...

Jul 22, 2022

Over the years, the time of hospital stay following transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) had decreased, and next-day discharge was becoming more prevalent in clinical practice. For a study, ...

Jul 22, 2022

The most common consequence of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) was the new-onset left bundle branch block (NLBBB). In these patients, a consensus of experts supported a temporary transv...

Jul 22, 2022

Transcatheter mitral valve-in-valve replacement (mViV) has emerged as a feasible option to redo surgical mitral valve replacement (rSMVR) for treating dysfunctional mitral valve prostheses. For a stud...

Jul 22, 2022

For a study, researchers sought to examine whether ubiquinol and d-ribose would lessen heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) patients' symptoms and improve their cardiac performance. ...

Jul 21, 2022

Endothelial glycocalyx (eGC) was composed of proteoglycan polymers and found in the endothelium's surface layer. Syndecan-1, heparan sulfate, and hyaluronic acid were important components of eGC, and ...

Jul 21, 2022

Cocaine was a known cardiovascular toxin, although its effect on clinical outcomes in heart failure (HF) remained uncertain. Although nonselective β-blocker medication appeared to be well tolerated i...

Jul 21, 2022

Routinely, the thermodilution (TD) method was employed to estimate cardiac output (Q̇C). In contrast to the gold-standard Fick method, where systemic oxygen uptake (V̇O2) was directly measured, Q̇C...

Jul 21, 2022

Transvenous lead extraction (TLE) was becoming more common, and more complicated devices were implanted. TLE was now a standard component of cardiac device maintenance, and up-to-date information on t...

Jul 21, 2022

For a study, researchers intended to identify specific risk factors for ventricular tachyarrhythmia (VTA) in women placed with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) for primary prevention. T...

Jul 21, 2022

Many individuals with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) remain untreated despite the recommendation of clinical guidelines that statins should be used. For a study, researchers sought to ...

Jul 21, 2022

The association between operator volume and mortality in primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) operations for ST-elevation myocardial infarction was examined. Patients who received PPCI be...

Jul 21, 2022

Patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD) were frequently excluded from acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) clinical studies. Consequently, nothing was understood about the effects of IHD in t...

Jul 21, 2022

Unknown was the best antiplatelet therapy for patients with non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTE-ACS) and chronic kidney disease (CKD). In the ISAR-REACT 5 trial, 2,364 patients with NSTE-AC...