BACKGROUND: Desmosomal gene variants (DGVs) have been associated with a diverse spectrum of phenotypic manifestations within ...

Catheter ablation as first-line therapy for ventricular tachycardia (VT) at the time of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantation has not been adopted into clinical guidelines. Also, ...

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Stroke prevention is central to the management of patients with AF. For many years, the use of oral anticoagulant therapy with warfarin, described as a vitamin K antagonist (VKA), has been the ...

Table 1 reflects recommendations that are substantially revised from the 2020 Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Guidelines or were drafted as new recommendations in the 2024 Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy ...

Many features of the environment have been found to exert an important influence on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, progression, and severity. Changes in the environment because of migration to ...

Right ventricular pressure-volume (PV) analysis characterizes ventricular systolic and diastolic properties independent of loading conditions like volume status and afterload. While long-considered ...

Background— Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy measures the number and size of lipoprotein particles instead of their cholesterol or triglyceride content, but its clinical utility is ...

Cardiac intensive care units are witnessing a demographic shift, characterized by patients with increasingly complex or ...

Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida School of Medicine, Tampa. For Sources of Funding and Disclosures, see page 1611.

Antiarrhythmic drugs (AAD) play an important role in the management of arrhythmias. Drug interactions involving AAD are common in clinical practice. As AADs have a narrow therapeutic window, both ...

Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Moinhos de Vento College of Health Sciences, Porto Alegre, Brazil (A.Z., A.L.F.K.). Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Moinhos de Vento College of ...