BACKGROUND: Congenital heart disease (CHD), the most common birth defect and a leading cause of infant mortality, is ...

BACKGROUND: Bisphenol F (BPF) is a common substitute for bisphenol A and the most prevalent bisphenol compound in diverse ...

BACKGROUND: Although the prognostic utility of positron emission tomography (PET) myocardial flow reserve (MFR) is well established, emerging data suggest that reduced subendocardial flows also ...

Testing for the prothrombin 20210 mutation, also called factor II mutation, may have been offered by your doctor because you or someone in your family, has had (1) a blood clot in one of the deep ...

The heart transplant allocation system is evolving in response to increasing demand for donor organs, technological advances, and changes in medical decision-making. In this evolving landscape, the ...

Fifty years ago, many children born with complex CHD could only, at best, be palliated for the first year(s) of life if at all. In the 1970s and 1980s, several surgical innovative procedures were ...

Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM, FAHA, Chair, Paul Muntner, PhD, MHS, FAHA, Vice Chair, Alvaro Alonso, MD, PhD, FAHA, Marcio S. Bittencourt, MD, PhD, MPH, Clifton W ...

Introduction: Prior studies have shown the association between oral infection, incident stroke and atrial fibrillation (AF) a cause of cardioembolic stroke. However, the impact of preventative oral ...

The first genetic insights into hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) arose from linkage analyses in families with many affected individuals. The findings were compatible with monogenic inheritance, ...

The following is intended to provide guidance for authors submitting scientific manuscripts that primarily focus on reporting health differences by race and/or ethnicity. These instructions aim to ...

A 66-year-old female with an incidentally diagnosed left middle cerebral artery saccular aneurysm (10×6×7 mm) presented with receptive aphasia, dysarthria, and a right-sided upper motor neuron facial ...

While the role of decompressive craniectomy (DC) for malignant cerebral infarction (MCI) has been validated in randomized controlled trials, no studies have systematically assessed its effect on ...