We retrospectively enrolled 103 patients with pretricuspid shunts with high total pulmonary resistance >4.5 Wood units (estimated pulmonary vascular resistance ≥3 Wood units). During a mean±SD ...

Stroke is the second‐leading cause of death globally and ischemic stroke constituted more than 60% of all incident strokes in 2019. 1 Intravenous alteplase thrombolysis was approved by the US Food and ...

Intended Use Practice guidelines provide recommendations applicable to patients with or at risk of developing cardiovascular disease. The focus is on medical practice in the United States, but ...

The heart is an omnivore, consuming fuel constantly and using any substrate available. 8 The high rates of ATP production and turnover are critical in maintaining cardiac contractility to deliver ...

Heart failure (HF) is a syndrome affecting all organ systems. While some organ interactions have been studied intensively in HF (such as the cardiorenal interaction), the endocrine gut has to some ...

Inflammation is a physiological process aimed at protecting the host; however, the protective nature of the process relies on an adequate resolution phase. If resolution fails, the inflammatory phase ...

Cardiovascular disease is the leading contributor to years lost due to disability or premature death among adults. Current efforts focus on risk prediction and risk factor mitigation‚ which have been ...

Background: The DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diets reduced blood pressure (BP) in the DASH and DASH-Sodium trials, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. We identified ...

Writing committees are instructed to consider the methodology of performance measure development 1, 2 and to ensure that the measures developed are aligned with ACC/AHA clinical practice guidelines.

Abstract The crosstalk of the heart with distant organs such as the lung, liver, gut, and kidney has been intensively approached lately. The kidney is involved in (1) the production of systemic ...

BACKGROUND: Upper extremity (UE) motor function impairment is a major poststroke complication whose recovery remains one of the most challenging tasks in neurological rehabilitation. This study ...

Stroke is a disease of disparities, with tremendous racial and ethnic inequities in incidence, prevalence, treatment, and outcomes. The accumulating literature on the relationship between stroke and ...