One major difference between re-entrant and non– re-entrant ventricular tachycardia (VT) is that the electrophysiological substrate for re-entry is acquired during postnatal development and is due to ...

BACKGROUND: Evidence from clinical trials of early pulsed field ablation (PFA) systems in treating atrial fibrillation has demonstrated their promising potential to reduce complications associated ...

Cardiovascular disease has been the leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide in the past 3 decades. Multiple cell lineages undergo dynamic alternations in gene expression, cell state ...

Heart failure is characterized by metabolic disturbances that contribute to cardiac insufficiency. 1 As the heart’s ability to oxidize its primary fuels—carbohydrates and fatty acids—diminishes, it ...

Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) using bone-avid tracers such as technetium-99m-labeled pyrophosphate (PYP), 99mTc-3,3-diphosphono-1,2-pyrophosphate (DPD), or 99mTc-hydroxymethylene ...

We conditionally ablated Fstl1 from the endocardial lineage using a transgenic Tie2-Cre mouse model. These mice showed a sustained Bmp and Tgfβ signaling after birth. This resulted in ongoing ...

Rationale:Lymphatic vessels function to drain interstitial fluid from a variety of tissues. Although shear stress generated by fluid flow is known to trigger lymphatic expansion and remodeling, the ...

Plasma metabolic profiles were compared between patients with hypertension with and without left ventricular hypertrophy and significantly decreased oleic acid (OA) levels were observed in the ...

Time-of-day significantly influences the severity and incidence of stroke. Evidence has emerged not only for circadian governance over stroke risk factors, but also for important determinants of ...

The establishment of a risk stratification method for unruptured intracranial aneurysms (UIAs) remains an interdisciplinary challenge. The present study attempted to identify unstable UIAs using ...