Congestive Heart Failure

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Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction — A Metabolic Disease?

September 21, 2023 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

Professor Pinto raises, in this editorial, a number of important points with regards to heart failure. Starting from a succinct definition of classification by ejection fraction, proceeds to analyse the notion of varied aetiologies of...

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Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction — A Metabolic Disease?

September 21, 2023 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

Professor Pinto raises, in this editorial, a number of important points with regards to heart failure. Starting from a succinct definition of classification by ejection fraction, proceeds to analyse the...

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Study Demonstrates Unexpected Electrical Changes in First Successful Transplant of Genetically Modified Pig Heart

November 17, 2022 | Cameron LindSilver Contributor

Researchers continue to report findings from the first genetically modified pig heart transplant into a human ten months after the surgery. Their latest study found unexpected electrocardiogram results in the...

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Black Heart Failure Patients Less Likely to Get Devices and Transplants They Need, Study Finds

October 21, 2022 | Cameron LindSilver Contributor

A new study shows that white heart transplant patients are twice as likely to receive a heart transplant or ventricular assist device as Black heart transplant patients, perpetuating existing inequalities...

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Chronic Kidney Disease: a Nerve-Racking Situation for the Heart

February 28, 2022 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

An interesting brief editorial on an experiment revisiting renal denervation as a panacea to cardiovascular disease

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“Respect When You Can, Resect When You Should”: A Realistic Approach to Posterior Leaflet Mitral Valve Repair

December 6, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

Gilles Dreyfus and colleagues share a decade of mitral reconstruction for degenerative posterior leaflet pathology in Harefield and Monaco (38 per year was the formidable average). The supplementary video is...

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Carcinoid Heart Disease and a Primary Ovarian Carcinoid Tumor

October 23, 2018 | Vishal Shah…

Introduction Primary ovarian carcinoid tumors account for less than 0.5% of all carcinoid tumors [1]. Patients with primary ovarian carcinoid tumors may develop carcinoid heart disease by release of bioactive...

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Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy for Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension

October 9, 2018 | Oleg Orlov…

IntroductionChronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) occurs in less than 3.8% of pulmonary embolism (PE) cases. It results from concomitant pulmonary vascular obstruction and small-vessel fibrointimal hyperplasia, which leads to elevated...

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Transcatheter Mitral-Valve Repair in Patients With Heart Failure

September 25, 2018 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

This multicenter study evaluated the efficacy of medical therapy plus transcatheter valve repair (MitraClip) to medical therapy alone for heart failure accompanied by secondary moderate to severe mitral regurgitation. The...

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Combined Transaortic and Transapical Approach to Septal Myectomy for Complex Long-Segment Hypertrophy

September 24, 2018 | Vishal Shah…

Introduction Complex long-segment septal hypertrophy consists of both hypertrophic subaortic stenosis and midventricular obstruction [1-3]. Untreated midventricular obstruction leads to recurrent symptoms and reduced survival [1, 2]. A combined transaortic...

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When a Sore Throat Becomes a Death Sentence

September 19, 2018 | Emily FarkasBronze Contributor

A New York Times journalist travels with Team Heart, a nonprofit organization providing humanitarian heart surgery for rheumatic disease in Rwanda. In addition to highlighting the overwhelming need, her perspective...

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Clinical Course and Management of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

August 17, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A well-referenced, exhaustive review.

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Desmin and Cardiac Disease: An Unfolding Story

May 15, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A sober editorial on a murine model of induced cardiac failure, which highlights the challenges of translating animal omics to humans

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