Adenoviruses are typically associated with mild respiratory infections, but are increasingly attributed to cardiac infection. Viruses have long been understood to infect the heart, with many studies ...

This retrospective study analyzed 1231 consecutive patients with HCM from 2 tertiary hospitals. We performed latent class analysis to categorize patients into phenotypic groups. Three distinct ...

AF can be categorized as paroxysmal AF (PAF), persistent AF (PeAF), or permanent AF based on the burden of AF. Contrary to intuitive expectations, previous studies have indicated that patients with ...

What Is New? This study is the first to compare incidence of physician‐adjudicated heart failure (HF) for people living with HIV (PLWH) and uninfected controls. The hazard ratio for HF (adjusted ...

Background— Pathological aspects of atherosclerosis are well described, but gene profiles during atherosclerotic plaque progression are largely unidentified. Methods and Results— Microarray analysis ...

Adrenergic signaling is downregulated in various cardiac diseases, a hallmark of heart failure (HF). In classic literature, the primary cardiac β 1 adrenergic receptor (β 1 AR) undergoes ...

Background— Exaggerated and prolonged inflammation after myocardial infarction (MI) accelerates left ventricular remodeling. Inflammatory pathways may present a therapeutic target to prevent post-MI ...

Introduction Heart failure (HF) represents the major sequela of myocardial infarction (MI). This syndrome increases in prevalence with age and affects almost 10% of men and 8% of women over the age of ...

A correlation between clinical class and coronary anatomy has also been described. Thus, Ahmed et al 5 reported that an “unstable angina score” based on the clinical classification was the most ...

Background—Prior studies have demonstrated low use of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) as primary prevention, particularly among women and blacks. The degree to which the overall use of ...

Home Circulation Vol. 121, No. 8 Hemodynamic Support by Left Ventricular Assist Devices Reduces Cardiomyocyte DNA Content in the Failing Human Heart Free AccessResearch Article PDF/EPUB Tools ...

Available biomarkers identify injury with high sensitivity and accuracy, yet fall short in distinguishing systemic from myocardial inflammation, offering limited prognostic insight. 8, 10 Notably, ...