Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is a proven intervention to improve cardiovascular health, offering benefits such as reduced ...
BACKGROUND: Cardiac and vascular complications are the leading causes of maternal mortality and morbidity, but the ...
Coronary artery calcium (CAC) is a marker of subclinical atherosclerosis that confers increased risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Measured by noncontrast cardiac computed tomography, CAC ...
Background: Unlike the tremendous progress made in atrial fibrillation ablation, the greatest unmet clinical need is for innovative ablation treatments for scar-related ventricular tachycardia (VT) – ...
The editorial board members (AHA) journals are committed to transparency, open-science principles, and quality assurance in the publication of AI-based research articles, with the goal of achieving ...
Welcome listeners to Circulation on the Run and the October 14th issue. And I'm one of your co-hosts, Dr. Greg Hundley, associate editor, director of the Pauley Heart Center at VCU Health in Richmond, ...
Lahrouchi N, Raju H, Lodder EM, Papatheodorou E, Ware JS, Papadakis M, Tadros R, Cole D, Skinner JR, Crawford J, et al. Utility of post-mortem genetic testing in cases of sudden arrhythmic death ...
Figure 1. Chest radiograph demonstrating focal oligemia in the right lung (area between white arrowheads) and a prominent right descending pulmonary artery (black arrow). Figure 2. Perfusion lung ...
Malignant hypertension is a hypertensive emergency, with rapid disease progression and poor prognosis. Although recognized as a separate entity more than a century ago, significant knowledge gaps ...
Cardiac troponin (cTn) testing is an essential component of the diagnostic workup and management of acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Although over the past 15 years the diagnostic performance of the ...
Most physicians in the 1920s were general practitioners with relatively little postgraduate training. Although they measured blood pressure routinely, electrocardiograms and chest X-rays were in the ...
There are only 2 reasons to operate on patients with heart disease. The first is to prolong life, and the second is to alleviate symptoms. On both counts, this article fails to convince this author ...