BACKGROUND: Declining cardiovascular mortality rates have been well-documented, yet temporal trends of sudden cardiac death ...

Cardiac electrophysiology (EP) is a relatively young field. The first surgical ablation of an accessory pathway and the first ...

BACKGROUND: Cardiomyocytes in the adult human heart show a regenerative capacity, with an annual renewal rate of ≈0.5%. Whether this regenerative capacity of human cardiomyocytes is employed in heart ...

BACKGROUND: Coagulation factor XI (FXI) inhibitors are a promising and novel class of anticoagulants, but a recent animal study found that FXI inhibition exacerbated diastolic dysfunction and heart ...

The EF-hand Ca 2+ sensor protein S100A1 has been identified as a molecular regulator and enhancer of cardiac performance. The ability of S100A1 to recognize and modulate the activity of targets such ...

The ability to characterize the pulmonary circulation more fully paved the way for many advances. In the 1950s, Dr David ...

Division of Cardiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX (F.R.G., J.D.B., A.K., A.M.S., J.A.d.L.) Division of Cardiology, University of ...

Background: In severely symptomatic patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), VALOR-HCM trial (Study to Evaluate Mavacamten in Adults With Symptomatic Obstructive HCM Who Are ...