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Damage to the tricuspid valve may occur during pacemaker implantation from direct trauma (leaflet perforation, avulsion, or damage to subvalvular apparatus). Further interaction of the device leads ...

Electrolyte abnormalities are commonly associated with cardiovascular emergencies. These abnormalities may cause or contribute to cardiac arrest and may hinder resuscitative efforts. In some cases ...

Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology An official, Open Access journal of the American Heart Association and the Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology Editor-in-Chief: Ashutosh P.

Background— Traditionally, increased pericardial thickness has been considered an essential diagnostic feature of constrictive pericarditis. Although constriction with a normal-thickness pericardium ...

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A healthcare professional can identify an irregular heartbeat by checking your pulse or listening to your heart with a stethoscope, but an electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) is the most reliable method to ...

Background and Purpose—The association of total and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol with stroke risk is unclear, especially regarding hemorrhagic stroke. Methods—We prospectively ...

Malignant hypertension is a hypertensive emergency, with rapid disease progression and poor prognosis. Although recognized as a separate entity more than a century ago, significant knowledge gaps ...

Patients with obesity and advanced heart failure face unique challenges on the path to heart transplantation. There are limited data on waitlist and transplantation outcomes in this population. We ...

BACKGROUND: Whether cannabis is a risk factor for cardiovascular events is unknown. We examined the association between smoking cannabis and cardiovascular events in a cohort of older veterans (66 to ...

A 33-year-old woman who reported syncope and dyspnea on exertion was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and scheduled to undergo surgical septal myectomy to relieve a severe obstruction in the ...