Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease, Volume 11, Issue 7

Background: For patients with high-risk pulmonary artery embolism (PE), catheter-directed therapies pose a viable alternative treatment option to systemic thrombolysis or anticoagulation. Right now, there are multiple devices available which have bee...

Background: The choice of prosthesis for aortic valve replacement (AVR) remains challenging. The risk of anticoagulation complications vs. the risk of aortic valve reintervention should be weighed. This study compared the outcomes of bioprosthetic vs...

The NOTCH-signaling pathway is responsible for intercellular interactions and cell fate commitment. Recently, NOTCH pathway genes were demonstrated to play an important role in aortic valve development, leading to an increased calcified aortic valve...

Although heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) has become the predominant heart failure subtype, it remains clinically under-recognized. This has been attributed to the complex pathophysiological mechanisms that accompany individuals...

Coronary artery calcification is a complex anatomical and histological pathology with different pathways that contribute to calcium deposit and calcification progression. As part of the atherosclerotic process, extensive calcifications are becoming m...

Genome-wide association studies and experimental mouse models implicate the MIB1 and GATA6 genes in congenital heart disease (CHD). Their close physical proximity and conserved synteny suggest that these two genes might be involved in analogous cardi...

Cardiac amyloidosis is the most frequent infiltrative disease caused by the deposition of misfolded proteins in the cardiac tissue, leading to heart failure, brady- and tachyarrhythmia and death. Conduction disorders, atrial fibrillation (AF) and ven...

Objective: To study possible determinants of longevity in a cohort of middle-aged men followed for 61 years until extinction using measurements taken at baseline and at years 31 or 61 of follow-up. Material and Methods: In 1960, two rural cohorts inc...

Background: Long-term prognosis of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) in the Chinese population is lacking, and the left ventricular (LV) hypertrabeculation phenotype usually overlaps with DCM. Objectives: The study aims to investigate whether the presence...

Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) is a rare and potentially life-threatening condition affecting infants that requires immediate corrective surgery to restore blood flow to the myocardium. We present a ca...