Research studies in cardiovascular epidemiology assessing the relationship between a primary exposure and a health outcome must account for the presence of what are often called third variables, ...

Acute fulminant myocarditis (AFM) is characterized by sudden, severe cardiac inflammation causing hemodynamic instability or arrhythmia. 1 Currently, no approved medical therapy exists for AFM. Janus ...

BACKGROUND: In the phase 3 randomized controlled study ATTRibute-CM (Efficacy and Safety of AG10 in Subjects With Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy), acoramidis, a transthyretin stabilizer, ...

Thrombocytopenia is defined as a platelet count below the lower limit of the normal range used by the laboratory performing the count. Typically, the threshold is set at 150×10 9 /L or 100×10 9 /L 3 ...

Considering that IE is a relatively rare disease, ongoing updates to clinical data and patient backgrounds are essential for providing precision diagnoses and effective treatments. This study uses a ...

Environmental toxicants and pollutants are causes of adverse health consequences, including well-established associations between environmental exposures and cardiovascular diseases. Environmental ...

BACKGROUND: Evaluation of whether dyspnea has a cardiac cause is essential. Guidelines from 2016 were reported to result in a high incidence of indeterminate left ventricular (LV) filling pressure. We ...

Guideline-directed medical therapies and guideline-directed nonpharmacological therapies improve quality of life and survival in patients with heart failure (HF), but eligible patients, particularly ...

Left ventricular (LV) systolic function is a powerful prognosticator of clinical outcome following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), 1, 2, 3 and patients who do not have in‐hospital LV ...

One of the most important sectors of health care is the ability to access not only quality health care services but diversity for comprehensive health care delivery. Not all children with congenital ...

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is now defined as mean pulmonary artery pressure >20 mm Hg according to the updated clinical classification from the 6th World Symposium of Pulmonary Hypertension (WSPH) ...

Patient engagement is essential for virtual HF programs designed to optimize GDMT. 8 Digital health has the potential to expand such programs to focus on activating patients to advocate for optimal ...