Background Secondary tricuspid regurgitation (TR) often develops or persists following left-sided valve surgery. However, its ...
Background Patients with adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) frequently develop late complications despite early surgical ...
For decades, cardiovascular medicine has been a discipline of ‘averages’ and ‘thresholds’—relying on population-based risk ...
Background Native aortic valve endocarditis continues to present significant operative challenges, often complicated by heart ...
In this issue of Open Heart, two complementary contributions examine how emerging visualisation technologies are reshaping ...
Background Despite growing interest in male–female differences in cardiovascular disease, evidence in infective endocarditis ...
Background Tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE) and right ventricular (RV) fractional area change (FAC) are ...
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), the most common inherited cardiovascular disease, accounts for a substantial number of cases of heart failure and sudden death.1 2 Resting or physiologically ...
α-Glucosidase inhibitors (AGIs) are a class of oral glucose-lowering drugs used exclusively for treatment or prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus. AGIs act by altering the intestinal absorption of ...
Objective We developed an artificial intelligence decision support algorithm (AI-DSA) that uses routine echocardiographic measurements to identify severe aortic stenosis (AS) phenotypes associated ...
Objectives Inferior vena cava (IVC) diameter may be a surrogate for volume status in acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF). The utility of IVC diameter measurement is under studied. The aim of this ...