Figure 1. The 64-rows MDCT before pulmonary vein (PV) catheter ablation. (A), Electroanatomical mapping during PV ablation. (B), Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) after PV ablation. (C), PV ...

Background— Preeclampsia is a pregnancy-specific disorder resulting in hypertension and multiorgan dysfunction. There is growing evidence that these effects persist after pregnancy. We aimed to ...

The aim of this study was to identify the relative impact of adrenergic and cholinergic activity on atrial fibrillation (AF) inducibility and blood pressure (BP) in a model for obstructive sleep apnea ...

Intended Use Practice guidelines provide recommendations applicable to patients with or at risk of developing cardiovascular disease. The focus is on medical practice in the United States, but ...

Reducing blood pressure (BP) is a highly effective strategy for long-term stroke prevention. Despite overwhelmingly clear evidence from randomized trials that antihypertensive therapy substantially ...

Background—Activation of innate pattern-recognition receptors promotes CD4+ T-cell–mediated autoimmune myocarditis and subsequent inflammatory cardiomyopathy. Mechanisms that counterregulate ...

Background: The mechanism of adverse limb events associated with peripheral artery disease remains incompletely understood. We investigated whether microvascular disease is associated with amputation ...

Arterial stiffness and BP/hypertension are dynamically interconnected, with each factor influencing the other in a bidirectional manner. Although arterial stiffness was long considered to be a ...

Background—Tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI) is the sole known inhibitor of the extrinsic coagulation pathway of physiological importance; however, its role in modulating thrombosis in vivo is ...

Background—Progressive familial heart block type I (PFHBI) is a hereditary arrhythmia characterized by progressive conduction disturbances in the His-Purkinje system. PFHBI has been linked to genes ...

Background— Left ventricular noncompaction constitutes a primary cardiomyopathy characterized by a severely thickened, 2-layered myocardium, numerous prominent trabeculations, and deep intertrabecular ...

Background—Myocardial ischemia causes profound changes in both active membrane currents and passive electrical properties. Because these complex changes develop and progress concomitantly, it has not ...