Sunil Mankad
Sunil Mankad
With greater awareness and treatment of valvular heart disease, there are now an increasing number of patients with prosthetic heart valves. However, replacement of a diseased valve with a prosthetic valve creates the opportunity for new an...
Daniel G Cuadrado,Marzia Leacche,John G Byrne
Daniel G Cuadrado
Valvular heart disease imposes varying degrees of stress on the myocardium, which, untreated, leads to eventual ventricular dysfunction. The pathophysiologic mechanisms by which these lesions act depend not only on the affected valve, but a...
Garrick C Stewart
Garrick C Stewart
Peripartum cardiomyopathy is diagnosed in women who develop systolic heart failure in the last month of pregnancy or within 5 months of delivery. This diagnosis should not be made in women with pre-existing cardiac disease or another cause ...
Eric V Krieger,Anne Marie Valente
Eric V Krieger
Ebstein anomaly (EA) is a rare congenital heart defect that may not be detected until late in adolescence or adulthood. Since the original description in a 19-year-old laborer with severe tricuspid valve (TV) regurgitation in 1866, our unde...
Michelle Bussinguer,Alfred Danielian,Om P Sharma
Michelle Bussinguer
Cardiac sarcoidosis can be life threatening if not promptly diagnosed and treated appropriately and aggressively. The diagnosis of myocardial disease is often difficult and circumstantial because there are no reliable diagnostic tests. Exce...
Dina M Sparano,R Parker Ward
Dina M Sparano
In chronic, severe mitral regurgitation (MR), cardiac function can remain well compensated and patients can remain asymptomatic for many years. Eventually, in most patients, the originally favorable loading conditions give way to unfavorabl...
Medical, surgical and interventional management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with obstruction [0.03%]
肥厚型心肌病伴流出道梗阻的医学、手术和介入治疗
Sammy Elmariah,Michael A Fifer
Sammy Elmariah
Patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) are classified as having hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) if a left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) gradient is present at rest or during provocation, as with Valsalva maneuver ...
Jay N Cohn,Daniel A Duprez
Jay N Cohn
Maya Guglin,Leelakrishna Nallamshetty
Maya Guglin
Myocarditis is a condition that can have a very wide clinical spectrum ranging from asymptomatic forms to fatal disease, but mostly presenting as new onset heart failure with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction, with or without viral...
Update on the use and outcomes of implantable cardioverter defibrillators in pediatric patients [0.03%]
植入式心脏除颤器在儿科患者中的应用和预后最新研究进展
Christian J Turner,Elizabeth A Stephenson
Christian J Turner
The vast majority of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) continue to be implanted in the adult population. Accordingly, manufacturers develop devices and leads primarily for the adult population. Whilst the number of ICDs implant...