Advanced ultrasound cannot discern who would benefit from beta-blocker treatment after myocardial infarction
A new study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Södersjukhuset shows that advanced ultrasound imaging analyses cannot ...
ahajournals.org4d
Stepwise Provisional Versus Systematic Dual-Stent Strategies for Treatment of True Left Main Coronary Bifurcation Lesions
BACKGROUND: The optimal coronary stenting technique for true left main bifurcation lesions is uncertain. EBC MAIN (European ...
Medscape2d
Catheter Ablation for Prevention of Ventricular Tachycardia
VT can degenerate to ventricular fibrillation as ischemia and hypotension develop, particularly in patients with impaired ventricular function. Although scars from a healed myocardial infarction ...
Medscape17d
Myocardial Microangiopathy in a Patient with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Echocardiography demonstrated cardiac wall-motion abnormalities with anteroseptal hypokinesis, but the chamber dimensions, ejection fraction and diastolic function of the left ventricle were ...
Frontiers27d
Cardiac resynchronization therapy via left bundle branch pacing in heart failure with complete left bundle branch block: is the defibrillator needed?
These criteria included a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF ... the presence of ischemic cardiomyopathy and noncompaction of ventricular myocardium, (2) cardiac-enhanced magnetic resonance ...
ahajournals.org7d
Pathology of Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction
It may be represented by a primary anomaly of the left ventricular outflow tract or may be secondary either to conditions primary in the mitral valve or to generalized diseases of the myocardium. In ...
casereports.bmj28d
Total occlusion of the left main coronary artery presenting as ST-elevation myocardial infarction
The duration of occlusion is highly related to the amount of myocardial salvage and future left ventricular dysfunction. Cardiogenic shock frequently presents in patients with LMCA occlusion, and ...
casereports.bmj18d
Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm: imaging
Left ventricular (LV) pseudoaneurysm is a rare but potentially fatal complication of myocardial infarction (MI) which needs to be differentiated from true LV aneurysm.1 Most of the LV pseudoaneurysms ...
BMJ6d
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance measurement of myocardial extracellular volume in health and disease
correlations were found with indexed left ventricular mass, end systolic volume, ejection fraction and left atrial area in apparent disease-specific patterns. Conclusions Myocardial ECV, assessed ...
Johns Hopkins Medicine11d
Heart Failure
Left-sided heart failure involves the left ventricle (bottom left chamber of the heart ... With heart failure, the heart keeps pumping, just not as effectively. With heart attack (myocardial ...
BMJ6d
Right ventricular–pulmonary artery coupling in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
9 This occurs at the cost of increased myocardial oxygen consumption dictated by increased wall stress due to ventricular dilatation and increased ... RV dilatation negatively affects the interaction ...