Cardiovascular Medicine, Volume 14, Issue 10

Case report. A 16-year-old female was seen for recurrent episodes of supraventricular tachycardia [...]

Since the first transradial percutaneous coronary intervention in 1992 by Kiemenij, this technique has been performed heterogeneously around the world with increasing interest due to recent reports in the literature. I ndeed, this approach decreases...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most commonly encountered arrhythmia in clinical practice with an estimated prevalence of 0.4% to 1% in the general population [1], increasing with age to 8% in those older than 80 years [2]. The recognised risk factor...

A 42-year-old male had undergone a successful closure of a patent foramen ovale (PFO) seven years earlier for cryptogenic stroke. In spite of several risk factors an incidental coronary angiogram was not performed due to his young age (35 years at th...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a common genetic disorder with an estimated prevalence of 1:500. About a quarter of the patients with HCM have left ventricular outflow tract obstruction referred to as hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOC...

A 37-year-old man, with active smoking and dyslipidemia as cardiovascular risk factors, presented with acute anterior ST segment elevation myocardial infarction. Emergent coronary angiography demonstrated a left main coronary artery occlusion. Follow...