Thyroid hormones play a fundamental role in cardiovascular function. They influence how the heart responds to adrenaline, how ...

Stable patients who stop taking beta-blockers a year or more after a heart attack fare no worse than those who keep taking ...

The ACC issued new guidance for managing common pediatric left-to-right shunts, including ASD, VSD, and PDA, in the ...

For stabilized AMI without left ventricular systolic dysfunction or HF, discontinuing β-blockers after 1 year or longer is noninferior to continuing it.

The SMART-DECISION trial has found that in stabilized patients after myocardial infarction (MI) without heart failure or left ventricular systolic dysfunction, discontinuing beta-blockers after one ...

A new Artificial Intelligence-powered software developed by Greek scientists detected heart dysfunction with high reliability ...

Nationally, there has been a rise in the number of children and adolescents with congenital and acquired heart disease ...

The first randomized trial to compare standard percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), also known as coronary angioplasty, with PCI accompanied by the use of a temporary, miniaturized pump to ...

Abstract: Due to the association with higher incidence of left ventricular dysfunction and complications, segmentation of left ventricle and related pathological tissues: microvascular obstruction and ...

Severe hypothyroidism and myxedema coma are frequently associated with left ventricular dysfunction, including impaired myocardial deformation and reduced ejection fraction. Severe hypothyroidism is ...

Subclinical left ventricular (LV) impairment—characterized by reduced global longitudinal strain (GLS) despite normal left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF)—is frequently encountered in ...