BACKGROUND: Current outcomes from catheter ablation for scar-dependent ventricular tachycardia (VT) are limited by high ...

The optimal grading scale must demonstrate (1) a strong correlation with clinical outcome, (2) simplicity and feasibility of scale interpretation while ensuring characterization of relevant ...

Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada (C.S., K.J.R). Centre for Infection, Immunity ...

From Drug Discovery Biology, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Parkville Campus, Victoria, Australia (R.H.R.) Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism (E.D.A.), ...

Level of Evidence: C=Limited populations evaluated. Only consensus opinion of experts, case studies, or standard of care; Fair=Benefits exceed the harms but quality of evidence is not as strong; 1+ = ...

The following terms are used in this article. Physical activity to refer to any bodily movement; exercise is used to indicate physical activity performed to stress primarily the oxygen transport ...

Figure 1. The natural history of aortic stenosis, emphasizing a long presymptomatic period and the dismal outcome once symptoms begin. AV indicates average. Adapted from Ross and Braunwald. 11 In the ...

Two main forms of sporadic SVD have been described: arteriolosclerosis and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). The former describes a group of small vessel pathological processes. Arteriolosclerosis ...

Although the role of longer-term BP control to improve outcomes in patients with stroke is undisputed, BP management immediately after a stroke remains controversial. In an effort to resolve this ...

Despite the spectacular collapse of the HDLC hypothesis and the paucity of alternative strategies in the clinical space, the field as a whole has experienced a groundbreaking shift in the ...

With the advancements of molecular genetics and the identification of mutations in the genes encoding the cardiac ryanodine receptor and cardiac calsequestrin 2 in patients with CPVT, the central role ...