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Chagas Disease and Heart Failure
Author(s): Felipe Martínez , Eduardo Perna , Sergio V Perrone , et al Added: 3 years ago
Chagas disease was initially described as an endemic health problem in a few countries in South America – mainly Argentina and Brazil – and one of the consequences of the disease, heart damage, made it an interesting issue for healthcare professionals, from epidemiologists to cardiologists.1 Chagas cardiomyopathy (ChCM) is now recognised as a cardiovascular disorder, diagnosed and treated not… View more

Heart Failure
Carlos Morillo
Prof Carlos Morillo is a cardiac electrophysiologist, currently serving in the Chief Division of Cardiology at theLibin Cardiovascular Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Prof Morillo has extensively researched Chagas disease since 1990, and was involved in the initial studies related to autonomic control in the different stages of the disease and the use of beta… View more
Felipe Martinez
Research Area(s) / Expertise:

Hypertension

Heart Failure
Emeritus Professor of Medicine - Cordoba National University Director - Instituto DAMIC-Fundación Rusculleda, Córdoba, Argentina Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC) Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC) Past President - International Society of Cardiovascular Pharmacology DrFelipe Martínez is on the Editorial Board of European Cardiology Review. View more
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Author(s): Juan Carlos Kaski Added: 3 years ago
The readership of European Cardiovascular Review continues to increase rapidly as a result of the excellent quality of the articles submitted by our contributors and the hard work of our editorial board. The current issue offers an array of extremely important manuscripts, grouped under three main sections – ischaemic heart disease, heart failure and cardiovascular pharmacotherapy. In the heart… View more

Heart Failure
Author(s): Frank Grothues Added: 3 years ago
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging, with its versatility and ability for soft tissue characterisation in conjunction with the lack of ionising radiation, has over the past decade evolved as a first-line imaging tool for several diagnostic problems.1 Developments in this field, especially the introduction of the ‘late enhancement’ (LE) imaging technique by the working group of Kim and… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics
Author(s): Prabhakar Rajiah , Milind Y Desai Added: 3 years ago
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become an important non-invasive imaging modality in the evaluation of cardiovascular diseases because of advances in scanner hardware, coil technology, parallel-imaging techniques and MRI sequences, all of which facilitate the rapid acquisition of high-quality images. Several scientific studies validated the use of MRI in cardiovascular diseases and showed… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

Heart Failure
Author(s): Antonio Bayés de Luna , Albert Massó-van Roessel , Luis Alberto Escobar Robledo Added: 3 years ago
It has been considered that an interatrial block exists when there is a delay of conduction in some part of the Bachmann’s bundle zone.1 The interatrial blocks are the most frequent and well-known blocks at atrial level. These are expressed in the electrocardiogram (ECG) by the presence of a P wave duration that equals or exceeds 120 milliseconds and presents usually a bimodal morphology,… View more

Heart Failure

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Author(s): Katja Zeppenfeld , Martin J Schalij Added: 3 years ago
Patients with structural heart disease are at risk of ventricular tachycardia (VT), a major cause of sudden cardiac death (SCD) with an incidence of one to two per 1,000 per year.1 The proven life-saving benefit achieved with implantable cardioverter–defibrillators (ICDs) is due to the reduction in SCD. However, several considerations support an important role for therapies that prevent episodes… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Author(s): Peter Hunold , Jörg Barkhausen Added: 3 years ago
There are many things in life everybody wants more of, and this is particularly true for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The major challenge in the daily life of an MRI professional is gaining maximal image signal and contrast in a reasonable amount of time. The application of gadolinium (Gd)-based MR contrast material has offered contrast features in MRI that have been used and appreciated for… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics