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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 ...
It has variably been estimated that between 800 000 and 1 million patients with congenital heart disease are now adults and that by 2010 more patients older than 16 years will undergo surgery for ...
From Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (F.L.N.); Epidemiological Cardiology Research Center, Department of Epidemiology, and ...
Introduction Sudden cardiac death in the young (SCD) is a rare but devastating event with an annual incidence among apparently healthy children and adolescents (hereafter called children) of 0.8 to ...
Methods and Results— PAD participants (n=465) had an ankle brachial index <0.90. Non-PAD participants (n=292) had an ankle brachial index of 0.90 to 1.30. PAD participants were categorized into leg ...
In the current issue of Circulation, Svensjö et al 1 report on an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening program for 65-year-old men in central Sweden. Using the standard screening test (ultrasound ...
Methods and Results— We performed a cross-sectional analysis among participants of the population-based Swiss cohort Study on Air Pollution and Lung Diseases in Adults (SAPALDIA). 24-hour Holter ...
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 ...
Subjects Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research Critical Care and Resuscitation Epidemiology, Lifestyle, and Prevention Genetics Heart Failure and Cardiac Disease ...
Methods and Results —In this comparative, nonrandomized study, 208 consecutive patients who underwent a single or double heart valve replacement with mechanical prostheses were anticoagulated ...
Although the primary cardiology team can initiate evaluation, treatment, and longitudinal care, referral to multidisciplinary hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) centers with appropriate expertise can ...
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 ...