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Author(s):
Eric Larose
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Olivier F Bertrand
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3 years ago
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) has found widespread use as an important tool in the cardiologists' armamentarium for several years now, mainly because of superior diagnostic accuracy and ability to perform complete anatomical and functional assessment in a single study without ionising radiation. The following will summarise specific uses of CMR for the interventional cardiologist.
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Author(s):
Mary N Sheppard
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3 years ago
Takotsubo syndrome is an acute reversible heart failure syndrome, which is increasingly recognised by coronary angiography for patients with acute ‘cardiac’ chest pain.1 It is a distinct disease entity from acute coronary syndrome, although the initial presentation has similar features to either ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) or non-ST elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI). Early…
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Author(s):
Carlos Millán-Rodríguez
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Carlos Palacios Castelló
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María de Regla Caballero-Valderrama
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et al
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3 months ago
Author(s):
Desak Ketut Sekar Cempaka Putri
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Andrianto Andrianto
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Makhyan Jibril Al-Farabi
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et al
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1 year ago
Author(s):
Yukiko Isekame
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Sabiha Gati
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Jose Antonio Aragon-Martin
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et al
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3 years ago
Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a disease in which connective tissue becomes weak secondary to fibrillin-1 mutations, resulting in aortic dilatation, aneurysm formation, aortic dissection, aortic regurgitation and mitral valve prolapse (MVP; see Table 1).
Epidemiology
MFS is an autosomal dominant condition: 75 % of all patients inherit the condition from one affected parent and 25 % are affected as…
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Author(s):
Maria Teresa La Rovere
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Roberto Maestri
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Gian Domenico Pinna
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3 years ago
Arterial baroreceptors play a crucial role in the adjustment of the cardiovascular system to several surrounding conditions. In a simplified paradigm, baroreceptor stimulation results in arterial pressure changes that can modulate both sympathetic and vagal activity and, as a consequence, heart rate and myocardial electrophysiological properties, contractility and vascular resistance. Arterial…
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Author(s):
Gianfranco Sinagra
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Michele Moretti
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Giancarlo Vitrella
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et al
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3 years ago
According to the latest position statement of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), cardiomyopathies (CMP) are defined as “myocardial disorders in which the heart muscle is structurally and functionally abnormal, in the absence of coronary artery disease, hypertension, valvular disease and congenital heart disease sufficient to cause the observed myocardial abnormality”.1
CMP may be…
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Author(s):
Clare Taylor
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Richard Hobbs
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3 years ago
Heart failure is a complex clinical syndrome that results from a structural or functional cardiac abnormality. The prevalence of heart failure is likely to increase as the population ages and survival rates following myocardial infarction continue to improve.1 Morbidity and mortality rates are significant and relate to high healthcare costs in terms of hospital admissions and long-term care.2…
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Author(s):
Michalis Efremidis
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Loukas Pappas
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3 years ago
Epidemiology and Prognostic Significance
Atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart failure (HF) are two major cardiovascular problems that predispose to each other and are associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. AF is the most common sustained arrhythmia in clinical practice, affecting 0.4–1% of the general population, with its prevalence increasing with age.1,2 In addition, the estimated…
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Author(s):
Josef Kautzner
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Dan Wichterle
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3 years ago
Left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction, defined by depressed LV ejection fraction (LVEF), has been recognised over the last two decades as the most robust parameter for identifying risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD). Specifically, LVEF has been a major determinant for entry into numerous randomised trials that aimed to investigate the efficacy of implantable cardioverter–defibrillators (ICDs)…
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