BACKGROUND: Evaluation of whether dyspnea has a cardiac cause is essential. Guidelines from 2016 were reported to result in a ...

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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the predominant cause of death globally, accounting for ≈30% of deaths each year. 1 The prevalence of CVD among adults (aged ≥20 years) in the United States was 48.6% ...

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Patients with pulmonary hypertension associated with congenital heart disease make up an increasing proportion of the total pulmonary hypertension population who bring with them added complexity ...

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) describes heterogeneous population of patients with a mean pulmonary arterial pressure >20 mm Hg. Rarely, PH presents as a primary disorder but is more commonly part of ...

BACKGROUND: Penetrance and risk of ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) are increasingly recognized as being genotype specific. Therefore, ...

Hypertension affects a significant proportion of the adult and aging population and represents an important risk factor for vascular cognitive impairment and late-life dementia. Chronic high blood ...

Inflammation and immune mechanisms are crucially involved in the pathophysiology of the development, acute damage cascades, and chronic course after ischemic stroke. Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory ...

Atherosclerosis is the most common form of vascular disease and constitutes the major cause of death, with 17.5 million related deaths annually (31% of global mortality). 1 Atherosclerotic plaque ...

BACKGROUND: It has become evident that some women develop preeclampsia despite aspirin. This study aimed to examine how such aspirin nonresponsiveness develops in high-risk preeclampsia pregnancies by ...

Mitral regurgitation (MR) and tricuspid regurgitation (TR) are the most common valvular heart diseases (VHDs) in patients with heart failure (HF). 1–8 Their prognostic role has been established, 2,4,6 ...