The past several decades have seen rapid advances in diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases and stroke, enabled by technological breakthroughs in imaging, genomics, and physiological ...

Cardiac troponin is extensively used as a biomarker in modern medicine due to its diagnostic capability for myocardial injury, as well as its predictive and prognostic value for cardiac diseases.

BACKGROUND: Desmosomal gene variants (DGVs) have been associated with a diverse spectrum of phenotypic manifestations within ...

A 46-year-old woman with type 1 myotonic dystrophy (DM1) presented to the emergency department with dyspnea and palpitations.

Activins are novel therapeutic targets in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). We therefore studied whether key members of the activin pathway could be used as PAH biomarkers. Serum levels of ...

Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Moinhos de Vento College of Health Sciences, Porto Alegre, Brazil (A.Z., A.L.F.K.). Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Moinhos de Vento College of ...

Sarcopenia is the loss of muscle strength, mass, and function, which is often exacerbated by chronic comorbidities including cardiovascular diseases, chronic kidney disease, and cancer. Sarcopenia is ...

Intracerebral hemorrhage is the most serious type of stroke, leading to high rates of severe disability and mortality. Hematoma expansion is an independent predictor of poor functional outcome and is ...

Lucinda J. Graven, Lisa Kitko, Martha Abshire Saylor, Larry Allen, Angela Durante, Lorraine S. Evangelista, Amy Fiedler, James Kirkpatrick, Lakeisha Mixon, Rachel Wells, on behalf of the American ...

Leading coronary artery, structural heart, and vascular disease science that advances practice and improves patient outcomes ...

Patients with pulmonary hypertension associated with congenital heart disease make up an increasing proportion of the total pulmonary hypertension population who bring with them added complexity ...

Independent of etiology, hemolytic diseases are associated with thrombosis, inflammation and immune dysregulation, all together contributing to organ damage and poor outcome. Beyond anemia and the ...