A long-term follow-up study on 46 patients with pulmonary stenosis and intact ventricular septum who survived transventricular pulmonary valvulotomy performed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital between ...

Casts were made of the vascular lumen of 20 successive extremities amputated for gangrene. Half of the patients were diabetic. All nondiabetics had arteriosclerotic vascular disease plus acute ...

Investigation of the members of the White Mountain Apache Tribe has confirmed our clinical experience that coronary artery disease is extremely rare in these people. The Apaches eat a diet low in ...

To determine mechanisms of myocardial toxicity of radiopaque media and to correlate specifically induced changes in the composition of coronary artery blood with changes in the surface ...

A patient who reports arrhythmia symptoms or a perceived shock should be promptly evaluated with an ICD interrogation to determine whether the event was truly a ventricular arrhythmia, rather than an ...

Cx40 (connexin 40) was reported to be a molecular modulator of the renal baroreflex. 6 Connexins are transmembrane gap junction proteins involved in cell-to-cell communication. Renin cell-specific ...

Lifetime risk (LTR) is an epidemiological measure that expresses the probability of disease in the remaining lifetime for an index age. Estimation of the LTR of AMI, which provides an absolute risk ...

Hypertension is one of the main risk factors for the development of many cardiovascular diseases. Despite significant progress in the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension, approximately only half ...

Over the past decade, deciphering the roles of individual miRNAs has relied heavily on the identification of their targets to provide mechanistic context to their cellular function. As Watson-Crick ...

With the advancements of molecular genetics and the identification of mutations in the genes encoding the cardiac ryanodine receptor and cardiac calsequestrin 2 in patients with CPVT, the central role ...

This chapter summarizes the management of acute stroke in the adult patient. It summarizes out-of-hospital care through the first hours of therapy. For additional information about the management of ...