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Current Cardiology Reports

Issue 1/2025

Content (173 Articles)

The Emerging Role of Multimodality Imaging in the Diagnosis and Management of Post Pericardiotomy Syndrome

  • Echocardiography
  • Pericardial Disease (AL Klein and CL Jellis, Section Editors)

Mohammad Alqahtani, Vartan Mardigyan, Michael Chetrit

Coronary Intervention Outcomes in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis

  • Open Access
  • Liver Cirrhosis
  • Ischemic Heart Disease (D Mukherjee, Section Editor)

Song Peng Ang, Jia Ee Chia, Jose Iglesias, Muhammed Haris Usman, Chayakrit Krittanawong

Myocardial Disease in Systemic Sclerosis: Recent Updates and Clinical Implications

Ryan Osgueritchian, Hoda Mombeini, Vivek P. Jani, Steven Hsu, Laura K. Hummers, Fredrick M. Wigley, Stephen C. Mathai, Ami A. Shah, Monica Mukherjee

Risk and Protective Factors of Poor Clinical Outcomes in Heart Failure with Improved Ejection Fraction Population: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Wilbert Huang, Apridya Nurhafizah, Alvin Frederich, Alya Roosrahima Khairunnisa, Capella Kezia, Muhammad Irfan Fathoni, Sean Samban, Samuel Flindy

Sepsis-Associated Cardiomyopathy: Long-Term Prognosis, Management, and Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy

  • Septicemia
  • Cardiovascular Critical Care (A Higgins and G Dahiya, Section Editors)

Steven M. Hollenberg

Advancing Myocarditis Research: Evaluating Animal Models for Enhanced Pathophysiological Insights

  • Myocarditis
  • Myocardial Disease (A Abbate and M Merlo, Section Editors)

Yanzhe Xu, Yixing Tan, Zhonghui Peng, Meiyu Liu, Bi Zhang, Ke Wei

Transcatheter Caval Implantation for Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation

Vincent Chen, Omar Abdul-Jawad Altisent, Rishi Puri

Improving the Prioritization of Heart Transplantation Candidates for Optimal Clinical Outcomes: A Narrative Review

Phan Quang Thuan, Cao Dang Khang, Nguyen Hoang Dinh

Learnings from Implementation Strategies to Improve Lipid Management

  • Open Access
  • PCSK9 Inhibitor
  • Lipid Abnormalities and Cardiovascular Prevention (NJ Pagidipati, Section Editor)

Nick S. R. Lan, Ruofei Trophy Chen, Girish Dwivedi, Gerald F. Watts, Stephen J. Nicholls, Adam J. Nelson

Inflammatory Heart Disease in Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome

  • Open Access
  • Myocarditis
  • Pericardial Disease (AL Klein and CL Jellis, Section Editors)

Giulia La Vecchia, Marco Giuseppe Del Buono, Aldo Bonaventura, Alessandra Vecchiè, Francesco Moroni, Tommaso Sanna, Antonio Abbate

Hot Phases Cardiomyopathy: Pathophysiology, Diagnostic Challenges, and Emerging Therapies

  • Open Access
  • Cardiomyopathy
  • Myocardial Disease (A Abbate and M Merlo, Section Editors)

Giulia Bassetto, Federico Angriman, Carola Pio Loco detto Gava, Alessia Paldino, Maria Perotto, Luca Bordignon, Marta Gigli, Matteo Dal Ferro, Laura Massa, Alessandro Altinier, Antonio De Luca, Gianfranco Sinagra, Marco Merlo

Desmoplakin Cardiomyopathy: Role of Inflammation and Potential Role of Disease-Modifying Therapies

  • Myocarditis
  • Myocardial Disease (A Abbate and M Merlo, Section Editors)

Alessio Gasperetti, Richard T. Carrick, Steven Muller, Brittney Murray, Luigi Adamo, Barbara Bauce, Elizabeth McNally, Adam Helms

Right Ventricle Function: The Role of the Forgotten Chamber in Mitral Valve Surgery

Beatrice Bacchi, Andrea Stefanini, Giulia Elena Mandoli, Federica Lorusso, Gianmarco Toto, Maria Concetta Pastore, Francesco Cabrucci, Massimo Bonacchi, Matteo Cameli, Gianluigi Bisleri

Tailored Approach to Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support for Cardiogenic Shock: Strategies to Facilitate Patient Mobilization

  • Cardiogenic Shock
  • Cardiovascular Critical Care (A Higgins and G Dahiya, Section Editors)

Jean-Luc A. Maigrot, Brett. J. Wakefield, Chase M. Donaldson, Aaron J. Weiss

Cardiac Regeneration in Adult Zebrafish: A Review of Signaling and Metabolic Coordination

  • Regenerative Medicine (SM Wu, Section Editor)

Arkadeep Mitra, Subhadeep Mandal, Kalyan Banerjee, Nilanjan Ganguly, Pramit Sasmal, Durba Banerjee, Shreyasi Gupta

Atrial Functional Mitral Regurgitation: Definition, Mechanisms, and Treatment Perspectives

Sebastiaan Dhont, Sébastien Deferm, Philippe B. Bertrand, Pieter M. Vandervoort

Old and New Biomarkers in Idiopathic Recurrent Acute Pericarditis (IRAP): Prognosis and Outcomes

  • Open Access
  • Biomarkers
  • Pericardial Disease (AL Klein and CL Jellis, Section Editors)

Ruggiero Mascolo, Emanuele Bizzi, Martina Martelli, Chiara Facoetti, Giulia Colazzo, Fabio Barone, Antonio Brucato

Role of Trained Immunity in Heath and Disease

  • Epigenetics
  • Regenerative Medicine (SM Wu, Section Editor)

Shibali Das, Kory J. Lavine

Promotion of Cardiometabolic Health: A Personal Journey

  • Open Access
  • Obesity
  • Cardiometabolic Disease (DM and CV) (CJ Lavie, Section Editor)

Jean-Pierre Després

Multi-Modality Imaging in Cardio-Rheumatology

Vasiliki Vartela, Alessia Pepe, Ioannis Fragos, Sophie I. Mavrogeni

Atrial FDG Uptake: Etiologies, Clinical Significance, and Implications

Julie Lanctôt-Bédard, Hassan Bachir Melhem, Francois Harel, Matthieu Pelletier-Galarneau

Closing the Gap: Digital Innovations to Address Hypertension Disparities

  • Hypertension
  • Hypertension (DS Geller and DL Cohen, Section Editors)

Bassel M. Shanab, Allison E. Gaffey, Lee Schwamm, Matthew Zawalich, Daniel F. Sarpong, Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, Jocelyn Dorney, Charlotte Cooperman, Ryan Schafer, Heather S. Lipkind, Yuan Lu, Oyere K. Onuma, Erica S. Spatz

Primary Graft Dysfunction after Heart Transplantation: Current Evidence and Implications for Clinical Practice

Elena I. Gavrila, Jonathan S. Dowell, Ananya Gorrai, Christopher Wrobel, Nicholas Hendren, E. Ashley Hardin, Yasbanoo Moayedi, Natalie Tapaskar, Matthias Peltz, Maryjane Farr, Lauren K. Truby

Navigating the Waves of Critical Care Echocardiography: Unveiling its Role, Advantages, and Pitfalls in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

  • Echocardiography
  • Cardiovascular Critical Care (A Higgins and G Dahiya, Section Editors)

Ashley Darlington, Dustin Hillerson, Brad Ternus, Sunil Mankad

Novel Therapies for Right Ventricular Failure

Bibhuti B. Das

Cardiovascular Risk Reduction in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease and Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatohepatitis

Johannes Bernhard, Lukas Galli, Walter S. Speidl, Konstantin A. Krychtiuk

Blood Pressure Control and Incident Left-Ventricular Conduction Disease

Emilie K. Frimodt-Møller, Gregory M. Marcus

Key Concepts in Machine Learning and Clinical Applications in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

Dhruv Sarma, Aniket S. Rali, Jacob. C. Jentzer

Cardiovascular Risk Factor and Atherosclerosis in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)

Lakshmi Kattamuri, Shivangini Duggal, John Paul Aparece, Shrilekha Sairam

Molecular Regulation of Cardiomyocyte Maturation

  • Regenerative Medicine (SM Wu, Section Editor)

Bhavana Shewale, Tasneem Ebrahim, Arushi Samal, Nicole Dubois

Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis: Current and Emerging Therapies

  • Open Access
  • Amyloidosis
  • Myocardial Disease (A Abbate and M Merlo, Section Editors)

Aditi G. M. Patel, Pengyang Li, Narotham Badrish, Aditya Kesari, Keyur B. Shah

Echocardiographic Updates in the Assessment of Cardiomyopathy

  • Open Access
  • Cardiomyopathy
  • Echocardiography (JM Gardin and AH Waller, Section Editors)

Baoqiong Liu, Kandarp Suthar, Christine M. Gerula

Vascular Access and Closure Management for Electrophysiological Interventions: Small Interventions Big Impact

  • Invasive Electrophysiology and Pacing (EK Heist and S Nedios, Section Editors)

Davide Fabbricatore, Katarzyna Malaczynska-Rajpold

A Narrative Review of Cardiometabolic Profiles among U.S. Adults: Temporal Trends and Implications

  • Obesity
  • Cardiometabolic Disease (DM and CV) (CJ Lavie, Section Editor)

Junxiu Liu, Lei Hao, Carl J. Lavie

Eosinophilic Myocarditis: A Concise Review

  • Open Access
  • Myocarditis
  • Myocardial Disease (A Abbate and M Merlo, Section Editors)

Ashlee M. Asada, Rami Kahwash, Vincenzo Trovato

The Evolving Features of Takotsubo Syndrome

  • CSF Drainage
  • Myocardial Disease (A Abbate and M Merlo, Section Editors)

Marco Giuseppe Del Buono, Giulia La Vecchia, Rocco Antonio Montone, Paula Rodriguez-Miguelez, Antonio Maria Leone, Tommaso Sanna, Francesco Burzotta, Filippo Crea, Antonio Abbate

Contemporary Insights into LMNA Cardiomyopathy

Iswaree D. Balakrishnan, Neal K. Lakdawala

The ImageGuideEcho Registry: Using Data Science to Understand and Improve Echocardiography

  • Open Access
  • Echocardiography
  • Echocardiography (JM Gardin and AH Waller, Section Editors)

Nicholas Spetko, Jessica Oribabor, Emeka Anyanwu, Thomas B. III Tyler, Deily F. Rodriguez, David Ouyang, Jordan B. Strom

Optimizing Sedation Strategies in the Cardiac ICU: Induction, Maintenance and Weaning

  • Propofol
  • Cardiovascular Critical Care (A Higgins and G Dahiya, Section Editors)

Laith Alhuneafat, Effimia Maria Zacharia, Pratik Velangi, Jason Bartos, Alejandra Gutierrez

Diagnosis and Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients Without Obstructive Epicardial Stenosis

Khaled Ziada, Hassan Alkhawam, Haidar Hajeh, Malak Modi, Tarek Helmy

Artificial Intelligence in Ischemic Heart Disease Prevention

Shyon Parsa, Priyansh Shah, Ritu Doijad, Fatima Rodriguez

Correction to: Beyond the Heartbeat: Single-Cell Omics Redefining Cardiovascular Research

  • Correction

Sabine Seeler, Kristjan Arnarsson, Martina Dreßen, Markus Krane, Stefanie A. Doppler

A Body Shape Index as a Simple Anthropometric Marker for the Risk of Cardiovascular Events

  • Obesity
  • Ischemic Heart Disease (D Mukherjee, Section Editor)

Farina Mohamad Yusoff, Masato Kajikawa, Takayuki Yamaji, Aya Mizobuchi, Shinji Kishimoto, Tatsuya Maruhashi, Yukihito Higashi

How to Use Virtual Reality from Echocardiographic-Acquired Images

Jenny E. Zablah, Natalie Soszyn, Dale A. Burkett

Influence of Experiences of Discrimination and Anticipated Discrimination on Cardiovascular Health Outcomes

  • Psychological Aspects of Cardiovascular Diseases (IM Kronish, Section Editor)

Yashika Sharma, David Lopez Veneros, Lisa Pardee, Billy A. Caceres

Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch: Current State of Evidence

Carlos Giuliani, Antonela Zanuttini, Sébastien Hecht, Julien Ternacle, Philippe Pibarot

Red Meat Consumption and Hypertension: An Updated Review

  • Open Access
  • Hypertension
  • Ischemic Heart Disease (D Mukherjee, Section Editor)

Tara S. Allen, Michael Najem, Alexis C. Wood, Danielle J. Lee, Lorena S. Pacheco, Lori B. Daniels, Matthew A. Allison

Integration and Potential Applications of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography in Cardio-Oncology

Muhammed Ibrahim Erbay, Venkat Sanjay Manubolu, Ashley F. Stein-Merlob, Maros Ferencik, Mamas A. Mamas, Juan Lopez-Mattei, Lauren A. Baldassarre, Matthew J. Budoff, Eric H. Yang

Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring in the Context of Widespread Lipoprotein(a) Testing: Clinical Considerations and Implications for Lipid-Lowering Therapies

  • Arterial Diseases
  • Lipid Abnormalities and Cardiovascular Prevention (NJ Pagidipati, Section Editor)

Srikanth Palanisamy, Semenawit Burka, Michael J. Blaha

From Mechanisms to Management: Tackling In-Stent Restenosis in the Drug-Eluting Stent Era

  • Open Access
  • Interventional Cardiology (SR Bailey and T Helmy, Section Editors)

Luigi Spadafora, Rossella Quarta, Giovanni Martino, Letizia Romano, Francesco Greco, Antonio Curcio, Tommaso Gori, Carmen Spaccarotella, Ciro Indolfi, Alberto Polimeni

Point-of-Care Ultrasonography in the Critical Care Unit: An Update

Keith Guevarra, Yonatan Greenstein

Life’s Essential 8 and Cardiovascular Disease in Breast Cancer Survivors

  • Breast Cancer
  • Ischemic Heart Disease (D Mukherjee, Section Editor)

Kamari C. Ositelu, Tejasvi Peesay, Carol Garcia, Nausheen Akhter

Artificial Intelligence Applications in Cardio-Oncology: A Comprehensive Review

Avirup Guha, Viraj Shah, Tarek Nahle, Shivam Singh, Harikrishnan Hyma Kunhiraman, Fathima Shehnaz, Priyanshu Nain, Omar M. Makram, Morteza Mahmoudi, Sadeer Al-Kindi, Anant Madabhushi, Rakesh Shiradkar, Hisham Daoud

Anti-inflammatory Therapies for Ischemic Heart Disease

  • Open Access
  • Colchicine
  • Ischemic Heart Disease (D Mukherjee, Section Editor)

Tillmann Muhs, Senka Ljubojevic-Holzer, Susanne Sattler

Angiographic Anatomy of the Left Coronary Veins: Beyond Conventional Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

  • Open Access
  • CSF Drainage
  • Invasive Electrophysiology and Pacing (EK Heist and S Nedios, Section Editors)

Iulia-Georgiana Zehan, Csilla-Andrea Eötvös, Mădălina Patricia Moldovan, Mihai-Gabriel Andrei, Călina-Patricia Șchiop-Țentea, Roxana Daiana Lazar, Adriana Daniela Sârb, Giorgia Coșeriu, Teodora Avram, Adela Șerban, Gabriel Gușetu, Larisa Diana Mocan-Hognogi, Roxana Chiorescu, Sorin Pop, Edwin Kevin Heist, Dan Blendea

Fluoroscopy-free Transcatheter Atrial Septal Defect Closure: A Simplified Approach

Naychi Lwin, Piia Suursalmi, Sophia Yong, Saleha Kabir, Matthew I Jones, Alexandra Savis, Shakeel A Qureshi, Eric Rosenthal

Surgical Techniques for Mitral Valve Repair: A Review for the Non-Cardiac Surgeon

Hanghang Wang, James S. Gammie

Novel F-18-labeled Tracers of Sympathetic Function for Improved Risk Stratification and Clinical Outcomes

Fatema Tuj Zohora, Matthew A. Nazari, Albert J. Sinusas

Sociodemographic Disparities in Obtaining Cardiac MRI: Black, White, and Shades of Gray

  • Cardiac MRI
  • Diversity and Health Equity in Cardiology (AE Johnson, Section Editor)

Ololade Akingbade, Elizabeth Cabrera, Varun Subashchandran, Ryan Yang, Neal Shah, Hena Patel, Jeremy A. Slivnick

Echocardiographic Evaluation of the Post-Heart Transplant Patient

Aris Karatasakis, Omid Kiamanesh, Richard K. Cheng, James N. Kirkpatrick, David M. Dudzinski

Echocardiography and Heart Failure: An Echocardiographic Decision Aid for the Diagnosis and Management of Cardiomyopathies

Ashley Pender, Jessica Lewis-Owona, Abdulmojeed Ekiyoyo, Marcus Stoddard

Management of Stable Coronary Artery Disease and Acute Coronary Syndrome in Patients with Cancer

Shubh Desai, Moez Karim Aziz, Konstantinos Marmagkiolis, Mehmet Cilingiroglu, Cezar Iliescu, Leslie A. Ynalvez

Race, Genetics, and Social Determinants of Health in Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis: A Literature Review and Call to Action

  • Amyloidosis
  • Diversity and Health Equity in Cardiology (AE Johnson, Section Editor)

Gracia Fahed, Briana N. Collins, Nixuan Cai, John Isaiah Jimenez, Hiroki Kitakata, Jesus E. Pino Moreno, Kevin M. Alexander

Venous Insufficiency: Endovascular and Surgical Treatment

  • Open Access
  • Sclerotherapy
  • Peripheral Vascular Disease (S Kinlay, Section Editor)

Abdullah Khan, Ahmed A. Sorour, George E. Anton, Sean P. Lyden, Lee Kirksey

Coronary Inflammation and Cardiovascular Events in Patients Without Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease

Jia Ling Diau, Richard A. Lange

The Role of the Advanced Practice Provider in a Pericardial Center of Excellence

  • Open Access
  • Pericardial Disease
  • Pericardial Disease (AL Klein and CL Jellis, Section Editors)

Mary Heine, Ankit Agrawal, Emma Wensink, Tom Kai Ming Wang, Allan Klein

Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Constrictive Pericarditis: A Short Literature Review

Chieh-Ju Chao, Sushil Allen Luis, Reza Arsanjani, Jae K. Oh

The Role of Race in Pregnancy, Hypertension, and Long-Term Outcomes

  • Pre-Eclampsia
  • Diversity and Health Equity in Cardiology (AE Johnson, Section Editor)

Jacqueline Levene, Alyssa Chang, Anisha Reddy, Alisse Hauspurg, Esa M. Davis, Malamo Countouris

Bioengineering Approaches to In Vitro Modeling of Genetic and Acquired Cardiac Diseases

  • Open Access
  • Conditioning
  • Regenerative Medicine (SM Wu, Section Editor)

Linqi Jin, Boeun Hwang, Sarah Rezapourdamanab, Vani Sridhar, Roshni Nandwani, Mehdi Salar Amoli, Vahid Serpooshan

Unpacking Exosomes: A Therapeutic Frontier for Cardiac Repair

  • Open Access
  • Heart Failure
  • Regenerative Medicine (SM Wu, Section Editor)

Elena McMullan, Darukeshwara Joladarashi, Raj Kishore

Integrating -Omic Technologies across Modality, Space, and Time to Decipher Remodeling in Cardiac Disease

  • Open Access
  • Regenerative Medicine (SM Wu, Section Editor)

John F. Mulvey, Emily L. Meyer, Mikkel Skjoldan Svenningsen, Alicia Lundby

Reevaluating STEMI: The Utility of the Occlusive Myocardial Infarction Classification to Enhance Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes

Mohammed Ayyad, Maram Albandak, Dhir Gala, Basel Alqeeq, Muath Baniowda, Johann Pally, Joseph Allencherril

Viral Infection and Connexin Dysfunction in the Heart

  • Open Access
  • Myocarditis
  • Myocardial Disease (A Abbate and M Merlo, Section Editors)

Chelsea M. Phillips, James W. Smyth

Leadless Pacemakers: The “Leading Edge” of Quality of Life in Cardiac Electrophysiology

  • Open Access
  • Pacemaker
  • Psychological Aspects of Cardiovascular Diseases (IM Kronish, Section Editor)

Samuel F. Sears, Elizabeth W. Jordan, Zeba Hashmath, Maeve M. Sargeant, John Catanzaro, Rajasekhar Nekkanti, Ghanshyam Shantha

Updates in Diagnosis and Treatment of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Myocarditis

  • Myocarditis
  • Myocardial Disease (A Abbate and M Merlo, Section Editors)

Anthony M. Hachem, Aditya Desai, Noah Beinart, Keila C. Ostos-Mendoza, Ana Sofia Lopez Rodriguez, Regina Diaz de Leon Derby, Sara Ebrahimi, Nicolas L. Palaskas

Nutrition Optimization Among Critically Ill Patients in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

  • Open Access
  • Nutrition
  • Cardiovascular Critical Care (A Higgins and G Dahiya, Section Editors)

Saisnigdha Allaparthi, Amanda Bode, Christan Bury, Amanda R. Vest

Cardiovascular Risk Associated with the Treatment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults

Aditi Kothari, John Paul Aparece, Raul del Toro Mijares

Assessment of Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction in Patients with Systemic Vasculitis

  • Vasculitis
  • Nuclear Cardiology (V Dilsizian, Section Editor)

Shihab Sarwar, Faisal Ahmed, Yoshito Kadoya, Ramtin Hakimjavadi, Kevin Emery Boczar

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Cardio-Oncology Care

  • Cardio-Oncology (S Feldman and K Jang, Section Editors)

Olayiwola Bolaji, Michelle N Johnson

Cardiovascular Outcomes After Acute Coronary Syndrome in Persons Living with HIV: A Scoping Review

David Iskhakov, Julie N. Deleger, Jorge Plutzky, Virginia A. Triant, Emily P. Hyle

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Guidance for the Pathogenetic Definition of Cardiomyopathies

  • Open Access
  • Cardiac MRI
  • Myocardial Disease (A Abbate and M Merlo, Section Editors)

Bishow Paudel, Jonathan Pan, Cristiane C. Singulane, Shuo Wang, Matthew Thomas, Michael Ayers, Steven Philips, Amit R. Patel

Mutual Regulation of Cardiovascular and Hematopoietic Development

  • Open Access
  • Regenerative Medicine (SM Wu, Section Editor)

Norika Liu, Haruko Nakano, Atsushi Nakano

Polygenic Risk Scores in Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Towards the Future

  • Open Access
  • Cardiomyopathy
  • Myocardial Disease (A Abbate and M Merlo, Section Editors)

Daria R. Kramarenko, Sean J. Jurgens, Yigal M. Pinto, Connie R. Bezzina, Ahmad S. Amin

The Impact of Cardio-Renal-Metabolic Profile in Dilated Cardiomyopathy

  • Open Access
  • Cardiomyopathy
  • Myocardial Disease (A Abbate and M Merlo, Section Editors)

Tamim Akbari, Daniel J. Hammersley, Clarice Yau-Yee May, Brian P. Halliday, Sanjay K. Prasad

Interventional Management of Intracoronary Dissection/Hematoma: A Comprehensive Review

  • Hematoma
  • Interventional Cardiology (SR Bailey and T Helmy, Section Editors)

Federico Giannino, Gabriele Carciotto, Francesco Pallante, Gabriele Monciino, Matteo Mancuso, Davide Raspanti, Giustina Iuvara, Manuela Ajello, Stefania Lo Giudice, Marcello Marchetta, Samuel La Cola, Maurizio Cusmà Piccione, Vittorio Virga, Antonio Micari, Giampiero Vizzari

Multilevel Racism and Discrimination and Cardiovascular Disease and Related Biopsychosocial Mechanisms: An Integrated Scoping and Literature Review and Future Research Agenda

  • Open Access
  • Psychological Aspects of Cardiovascular Diseases (IM Kronish and JL Birk, Section Editors)

Danielle L. Beatty Moody, Elizabeth J. Pantesco, Ayla Novruz, Nedelina Tchangalova, Richard C. Sadler, Kellee White Whilby, Jason Ashe, Gilbert C. Gee, LaBarron K. Hill, Shari R. Waldstein

Psychological Aspects of Wearable Health Technologies in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease: A Literature Review and Call to Action

  • Anxiety
  • Psychological Aspects of Cardiovascular Diseases (IM Kronish and JL Birk, Section Editors)

Allison E. Gaffey, Stephanie A. Hooker, Rachel Lampert, Anil K. Gehi, Lindsey Rosman

Cardiovascular Care in Women Veterans: An Updated Profile

  • Women and Cardiovascular Health (N Goldberg and S Lewis, Section Editors)

Pristine Mei, Delia Cotiga, Ingy Mahana, Nimra Gilani, Michelle L. Dew, Susmita Parashar, D. Elizabeth Le

Current Status of Cardiovascular Disease in Asian Americans: One Size Does Not Fit All

  • Arterial Diseases
  • Women and Cardiovascular Health (N Goldberg and S Lewis, Section Editors)

Pristine Mei, Yamini S. Levitzky, Susmita Parashar, Roopa A. Rao, Lavanya Kondapalli, D. Elizabeth Le

Cardiac Regeneration and Repair in Zebrafish and Mammalian Models

  • Open Access
  • Regenerative Medicine (SM Wu, Section Editor)

Stanislao Igor Travisano, Ching-Ling Lien

In-Stent Restenosis: Incidence, Mechanisms, and Treatment Options

Michael Sola, Zachary Tugaoen, Jessica Willis, George A. Stouffer

Macrophage Containing Cardiac Organoids for Studying Inflammatory Programmes Driving Cardiovascular Disease

  • Open Access
  • Regenerative Medicine (SM Wu, Section Editor)

Christopher R. Hunter, James E. Hudson

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Women’s Cardiovascular Disease Care

Jina Chung, Jenica Thangathurai, Sharon Andrade-Bucknor, Susmita Parashar, Karina Gonzalez Carta, Marc Epp, Carol Ma

Use of Acetazolamide in People with Decompensated Heart Failure: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Johana Elizabeth Erazo-Castillo, Juan Camilo Ramos-Picón, Johana Patricia Galván-Barrios, Yelson Alejandro Picón-Jaimes

Innovating the Gold Standard: The Emerging Role of Echocardiographic Stress Testing in the Classification, Stratification, and Prognostication in Pulmonary Vascular Disease

Garrett Goldin, Hoda Mombeini, Valentina Mercurio, Steven Hsu, Matthew R. Lammi, Stephen C. Mathai, Luna Gargani, Monica Mukherjee

Scores for Risk Stratification of Pericarditis

Massimo Imazio, Alessandro Andreis, Allan Klein, George Lazaros, Emilia Lazarou, Valentino Collini

Psychological Interventions for Reducing Distress in Patients with Cardiac Arrhythmias

Josefin Särnholm, Allison E. Gaffey, Meghan Reading Turchio, Angelo Biviano, Matthew M. Burg

Diagnosis and Management of Atrial Arrhythmias in Cancer Patients

Robert Monsour, Angie Seo, Nicholas Wilcox, Michael G. Fradley

Lp(a): Global Public Health Concern: Emerging Knowledge and Therapeutic Approaches

  • Public Health
  • Global Cardiovascular Health (L Sperling and D Gaita, Section Editors)

Alexander C. Razavi, Jessica Hong, Harpreet S. Bhatia

Beyond the Heart: Exploring Extracardiac Manifestations in Cardiac Amyloidosis for Early Diagnosis

  • Amyloidosis
  • Cardiac PET, CT, and MRI (P Cremer, Section Editor)

Marcus Saldanha, Lu Kun Chen, Joshua Solomon, Kristina Cunanan, Francois Tournoux, Rami Massie, Michael Chetrit

Endothelin Receptor Antagonists for the Treatment of Hypertension: Recent Data from Clinical Trials and Implementation Approach

  • Open Access
  • Hypertension
  • Hypertension (DS Geller and DL Cohen, Section Editors)

Revathy Manickavasagar, Anoushka Krishnan, Omar Azzam, Markus P. Schlaich

Insomnıa ın Heart Faılure Patıents ın a Hospıtal Settıng: Causes, Consequences, and Interventıons

Mehmet Emin Atay, Bahar Çiftçi

Cardiac Involvement in Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis

Mukunthan Srikantharajah, Deepa Gopalan, Harold Wilson-Morkeh, Salman Siddiqui, Stephen P. McAdoo, Taryn Youngstein

The Impact of Mental Health on Cardiovascular Disease in Women

Ingy Mahana, Karla Asturias-Gonzalez, Pristine Mei, Michele Kalt, Susmita Parashar, Roopa Rao, Lavanya Kondapalli, Olubunkola M. Olubi, D. Elizabeth Le

Intravascular Coronary Imaging Update: Advances, Clinical Applications, and Future Directions

Sergio Waxman, Umair Bajwa, Minh Tran

Sex Differences in Heart Transplantation: Evolving Trends and Insights

Roopa A. Rao, Mrudula Munagala, Carrie M. Puckett, Susmita Parashar, Mitha Naik, Indranee Rajapreyer

Pulmonary Embolism in Women in the Era of Expanding Advanced Therapies

  • Thrombectomy
  • Women and Cardiovascular Health (N Goldberg and S Lewis, Section Editors)

Ella Ishaaya, Katharine Yang, Jiyoung Seo, Janine Vintch, Jina Chung

Autoimmune Pericarditis: Diagnosis and New Therapeutics

  • Open Access
  • Pericardial Disease
  • Pericardial Disease (AL Klein and CL Jellis, Section Editors)

Heba Wassif, Elizabeth Ghandakly, Habib Layoun, Jaideep Singh Bhalla, Emily Littlejohn, Tom Kai Ming Wang, Elaine Husni, Allan Klein

Endovascular Treatment for Aortic Diseases: Intercontinental Disparities

Gautam Naik, Ishaq Wadiwala, Niranjan Hiremath

Correction to: Endocarditis in Adult Congenital Heart Disease Patients: Prevention, Recognition, and Management

Victoria Carvajal, Fernando Baraona Reyes, David Gonzalez, Matthew Schwartz, Angela Whitlow, Jorge R. Alegria

Transcatheter Structural Heart Interventions in Women

Jina Chung, Katharine Yang, Nino Nozadze, Aparna Kukarni, Mahi Ashwath, Quang Bui, Jennifer Co-Vu, Pei-Ni Jone, Radmila Lyubarova, Sharon Andrade-Bucknor

Digital Therapeutics in Cardiovascular Healthcare: A Narrative Review

Xijia Shao, Yuhong Hu, Hao Jia, Jiangping Song

Multimodality Imaging for Diagnosis of Ischemic Heart Disease in Latin American Women from IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Collaboratory

Ritu Thamman, Isabel Berrocal, Teresa Massardo, Amalia Peix, Diana Paez, Renee P. Bullock-Palmer

The Impact of Federal and State Laws on Cardiovascular Risk

  • Open Access
  • Diversity and Health Equity in Cardiology (AE Johnson, Section Editor)

Belinda L. Needham, Darya A. Dokshina

Optimizing Care for Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome: Leveraging Implementation Science in the Path Toward Pharmacoequity

Regina M. Longley, Cecilia Katzenstein, Dinushika Mohottige

Beyond the Mouse: The Mouse Lemur as a New Primate Model for Cardiovascular Research

  • Open Access
  • Pacemaker
  • Regenerative Medicine (SM Wu, Section Editor)

Stephen Chang

Tricuspid Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair (T-TEER): A Single Approach to a Multiforme Pathology

  • Heart Failure
  • Interventional Cardiology (SR Bailey and T Helmy, Section Editors)

Alessandro Sticchi, Carlo Vitale, Federico Bargagna, Alberto Cardullo, Matteo Aufiero, Dario Grassini, Beatrice Montuori, Giulia Costa, Marco Angelillis, Danilo Giannini, Matteo Mazzola, Paolo Spontoni, Cristina Giannini, Marco De Carlo

Hypertension Remission After Bariatric Surgery: Metrics, Mechanisms, and Patient Selection

  • Hypertension
  • Hypertension (DS Geller and DL Cohen, Section Editors)

Erfan Shirmohamadi, Negar Ghasemloo, Mohammad Reza Ramezanpour, Narjes Mohammadzadeh

Cardiovascular Consequences of Premature Menopause

  • Menopause
  • Women and Cardiovascular Health (N Goldberg and S Lewis, Section Editors)

Julia A. Bast, Olubunkola Olubi, D. Elizabeth Le, Susmita Parashar, Ioana Dobrescu, Lavanya Kondapalli

Planetary Health: At the Crossroads of CVD Prevention

  • Open Access
  • Climate Change
  • Global Cardiovascular Health (L Sperling and D Gaita, Section Editors)

Tasveer Khawaja, Sanjay Rajagopalan

Metabolic Regulation of Cardiovascular Aging

  • Insulins
  • Regenerative Medicine (SM Wu, Section Editor)

Michael Gao, Toren Finkel

Interleukin-6 in Cardiogenic Shock

  • Open Access
  • Cardiogenic Shock
  • Cardiovascular Critical Care (A Higgins and G Dahiya, Section Editors)

Luca Fazzini, Michele Golino, Francesco Moroni, Matteo Castrichini, Gregorio Tersalvi, Paolo Manca, Antonio Abbate

VO2 Max in Clinical Cardiology: Clinical Applications, Evidence Gaps, and Future Directions

Hesham M. Abdalla, Luke Dreher, Hunter VanDolah, Adam Bacon, Mohammed El-Nayir, Mahmoud Abdelnabi, Ramzi Ibrahim, Hoang Nhat Pham, George Bcharah, Girish Pathangey, Courtney Wheatley-Guy, Satyajit Reddy, Juan Farina, Chadi Ayoub, Reza Arsanjani

Evolving Cardioprotective Strategies in Cardio-Oncology: A Narrative Review

  • Cardio-Oncology (S Feldman and K Jang, Section Editors)

Elena Wadden, Sanjay Chandrasekhar, Timothy Jordan, Andrea Diaz, Marta Alhama-Belotto, Efstathia Andrikopoulou, Douglas Leedy, Alexi Vasbinder, Richard K. Cheng

Addressing Diastolic Dysfunction in the Congenital Heart Population

Ryan M Edwards, Allison P Levin, Richard A Krasuski

To Extract or not To Extract? Navigating Lead Failure in Cardiac Devices

  • Pacemaker
  • Invasive Electrophysiology and Pacing (EK Heist and S Nedios, Section Editors)

Eric W. Mills, Dingxin Qin, Theofanie Mela

Echoes of Inequity: A Critical Examination of the Past, Present, and Future of Cardiac Health Equity

  • Open Access
  • Heart Failure
  • Diversity and Health Equity in Cardiology (AE Johnson, Section Editor)

Toluwalase Awoyemi, Cedrick Mutebi, Quentin R. Youmans, Ike S. Okwuosa, Clyde W. Yancy, Kamari Ositelu

Decoding Cardiac Maturation Program: Insights from RNA Splicing Regulation

  • Regenerative Medicine (SM Wu, Section Editor)

Woan Ting Tay, Yibin Wang

Childhood Adversity and Cardiovascular Disease; Current Knowledge and Future Directions

  • Psychological Aspects of Cardiovascular Diseases (IM Kronish and JL Birk, Section Editors)

Shakira F. Suglia

Evidence-based Management of Heart Failure in the Systemic Right Ventricle

  • Heart Failure
  • Congenital Heart Disease (RA Krasuski and G Fleming, Section Editors)

Xander Jacquemyn, Jef Van den Eynde, Sruti Rao, Shelby Kutty

SCN5A Cardiomyopathy: from Ion Channel Dysfunction To Clinical Disease

  • Open Access
  • Cardiomyopathy
  • Myocardial Disease (A Abbate and M Merlo, Section Editors)

Astrid B.M. Heymans, Lorenzo Bianchi, Paul G.A. Volders, Saskia N. van der Crabben, Job A.J. Verdonschot

Cardiomyopathy in Older Adults

  • Cardiomyopathy
  • Myocardial Disease (A Abbate and M Merlo, Section Editors)

Deirdre E. O’Neill, Daniel E. Forman

Calcified Nodules: Pathology, Mechanisms, and Clinical Challenges

Tomoyo Hamana, Alyssa Grogan, Rika Kawakami, Renu Virmani, Aloke V. Finn

The Role of Pericardial Fat in Cardiometabolic Disease: Emerging Evidence and Therapeutic Potential

Zaid Shahrori, Michel Chedid El Helou, Sherin Sallam, Gianluca Iacobellis, Ian J. Neeland

The Emerging Role of Lithotripsy in Structural Heart Interventions

  • Open Access
  • Valvuloplasty
  • Interventional Cardiology (SR Bailey and T Helmy, Section Editors)

Jonathan X. Fang, Leo Kar Lok Lai, Gennaro Giustino, Jaffar M. Khan, Pedro Engel Gonzalez, Brian P. O’Neill, Tiberio M. Frisoli, James C. Lee, Ahmad Jabri, Dee Dee Wang, William W. O’Neill, Pedro A. Villablanca

Occupational Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease: A Comprehensive Review

  • Air Pollutants
  • Public Health Policy (SS Virani and D Mahtta, Section Editors)

Seung Yeon Jeon, Chan Young Lee, Yun-Hee Lee, Hyojeong Kim, Jiwon Kim, Soo Kyung Cho, Han Soo Noh, Mo-Yeol Kang

Autonomic Imbalance in Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure: From Neurobiology to Precision Neuromodulation

  • Open Access
  • Myocardial Disease (A Abbate and M Merlo, Section Editors)

Aleksandr Talishinsky, Olujimi A. Ajijola, Sahib S. Khalsa

Human iPSC-Based in Vitro Cardiovascular Tissue Models for Drug Screening Applications

  • Regenerative Medicine (SM Wu, Section Editor)

Shivesh Anand, Gaoxian Chen, Astha Khanna, Ngan F. Huang

The Ross Procedure: Historical Context, Modern Outcomes, and the Road Ahead

Christian Eidson, Andrew Well, Joseph Turek, Carlos M. Mery, Ziv Beckerman

Risks and Prognostic Implications of Pericardial Disease and Atrial Fibrillation after Cardiac Surgery

  • Heart Surgery
  • Pericardial Disease (AL Klein and CL Jellis, Section Editors)

Lamis El Harake, Mohamed Al-Kazaz, Paul C. Cremer

Associations Between Positive Affect and Heart Rate Variability: A Systematic Review

  • Open Access
  • Review

Martha Schneider, Christian Rominger, Andreas R. Schwerdtfeger

Interplay between Elevated Bile Acids and Reduced Vitamin D Levels in Fontan Circulation: A Double-Edged Sword

Ashish H. Shah, Amir Ravandi, Sanjiv Dhingra, Michel Aliani, Kothandam Sivakumar, Richard A. Krasuski, Sivasubramanian Ramakrishnan

Left Atrial Coupling Index for the Prediction of Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure: Current Evidence and Clinical Implications

Tea Gegenava, Stephan Milhorini Pio, Koen Nieman

Optimal Approach in Staged Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Sandeep Jalli, Dimitrios Strepkos, Michaella Alexandrou, Deniz Mutlu, Pedro E. P. Carvalho, Eleni Kladou, Ozgur S. Ser, Jaskanwal Deep Singh Sara, Olga Mastrodemos, Bavana V. Rangan, Konstantinos Voudris, M. Nicholas Burke, Yader Sandoval, Emmanouil S. Brilakis

Cardiac Contractility Modulation: a Novel Adjunctive Therapy for Heart Failure Patients Undergoing Treatment with Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators

Yuefeng Ju, Mao Jing Wang, Yang Ji, Jialin Tang, Zhihui Wang, Qing Zhao

The Weight of Comorbidities in the Specific Treatment of ATTR-Related Amyloid Cardiomyopathy

  • Open Access
  • Heart Failure
  • Myocardial Disease (A Abbate and M Merlo, Section Editors)

Anna Cantone, Marco Maria Dicorato, Aldostefano Porcari

Echocardiographic Evaluation of Pulmonary Hypertension: A Contemporary Review of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) Guidelines and Emerging Modalities

Jim Lu, Aniket Zinzuwadia, James Sullivan, Pablo Pérez-López, Arielle Abovich, Monica Mukherjee, Julia Grapsa

Alteration of Essential Cell Function by Ultrasound-Targeted Microbubble Cavitation

  • Echocardiography (JM Gardin and AH Waller, Section Editors)

Anurag N. Paranjape, Xucai Chen, Flordeliza S. Villanueva

The Effects of Energy Drinks on the Cardiovascular System: A Systematic Review

  • Open Access
  • Cardiology
  • Cardiometabolic Disease (DM and CV) (CJ Lavie, Section Editor)

Joseph Mandato, Rei Kola, Troy Tyson, Luke Laffin, Robert Bales

Equity by Design – Using Digital Technology To Overcome Cardiovascular Health Disparities

  • Open Access
  • Digital Health
  • Diversity and Health Equity in Cardiology (AE Johnson, Section Editor)

Priya Nair, Michelle Dai, Dhruvil A. Patel, Kevin Pearlman, Sachin D. Shah

Current State of Artificial Intelligence in Assessing Cardiac Function

Victoria Yuan, Keane Lee, Andrew P. Ambrosy, David Ouyang, Hirotaka Ieki

Microplastics and Cardiovascular Disease: Should Clinicians Be Paying Attention?

  • Public Health Policy (SS Virani and D Mahtta, Section Editors)

Pedro Rafael Vieira de Oliveira Salerno, Ricardo J. Estrada-Mendizabal, Coral Lozada, Sarju Ganatra, Mohamed Bassiony, Omar Aboukhatwa, Colin Carpenter, Sadeer Al-Kindi

Multimodality Non-Invasive Imaging Approach in Acute Coronary Syndrome: Diagnostic and Prognostic Assessment

Daniele Cavallo, Luca Bergamaschi, Francesco Angeli, Matteo Armillotta, Ornella Di Iuorio, Khrystyna Ryabenko, Claudio Asta, Nicole Suma, Mariachiara Ciarlantini, Damiano Fedele, Lisa Canton, Sara Amicone, Rebecca Belà, Leonardo Luca Bavuso, Jessica Salerno, Marcello Casuso Alvarez, Marco Basile, Angelo Maida, Tommaso Manaresi, Nicolò Vasumini, Michele Di Leo, Domenico Tuttolomondo, Roberto Carletti, Gianni Dall’Ara, Elisa Gardini, Maria De Vita, Nicola Gaibazzi, Marco Guglielmo, Anna Giulia Pavon, Giuseppe Ciliberti, Angelo Squeri, Giancarlo Facchini, Gianluca Pontone, Carmine Pizzi

Epicardial Fat Inflammation and GLP-1/GIP Receptor Analogs: Are we Shifting our Perspective?

  • Semaglutide
  • Pericardial Disease (AL Klein and CL Jellis, Section Editors)

Gianluca Iacobellis

Left Atrial Dysfunction in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure

Cory R. Trankle, Ajay Pillai, Hussein Krayem, Keyur B. Shah, Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, W. Gregory Hundley

Transforming Care in Congenital Heart Disease: The Role of Extended Reality in Family and Trainee Education and Procedural Planning

  • Open Access
  • Pediatric Cardiology
  • Congenital Heart Disease (RA Krasuski and G Fleming, Section Editors)

Megan Gunsaulus, Julie Aldrich, Sergio A. Carrillo, John Kelly, Rehab Salah, Benjamin Blais, Arash Salavitabar

Contemporary Review of Subaortic Stenosis Characteristics, Multi-modality Imaging and Management

  • Open Access
  • Echocardiography
  • Cardiac PET, CT, and MRI (P Cremer, Section Editor)

Aro Daniela Arockiam, Akiva Rosenzveig, Sharmeen Sorathia, Rishabh Khurana, Ankit Agrawal, Elio Haroun, Rochell Issa, Anoop Gurram, Mohammad Alamer, Tiffany Dong, Joseph El Roumi, Muhammad Majid, Leonardo Rodriguez, Zoran B. Popovic, Brian P. Griffin, Tom Kai Ming Wang

Transthoracic and Transesophageal Echocardiography in the Diagnosis and Management of Mitral Regurgitation

Małgorzata Maciorowska, Lily Zhang, Billal Tokhi, Sylvia Biso, Omar K. Khalique

Targeting Vulnerable Plaques in Coronary Artery Disease: Detecting Risk, Preventing Events

Ryota Kakizaki, Sarah Bär, Lorenz Räber

Variabiliy in Prescribing Patterns of Wearable Cardiac Defibrillators: Current Data, Guidelines, Challenges, and Controversies

Mickael Guglieri, Thibault Lenormand, Alexandre Bodin, Arnaud Bisson, Laurent Fauchier

Life Course Approach to Familial Hypercholesterolemia

Marcio H. Miname, Fernanda Del Castanhel, Marjorie H. Mizuta, Raul D. Santos

Mavacamten in the Treatment of Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: from Pathophysiology To Real World Data

  • Open Access
  • Cardiomyopathy
  • Myocardial Disease (A Abbate and M Merlo, Section Editors)

Giorgia Panichella, Manuel Garofalo, Maddalena Ragagnin, Angela Ilaria Fanizzi, Mattia Zampieri, Annamaria Del Franco, Francesco Cappelli, Maurizio Pieroni, Iacopo Olivotto

Titin Cardiomyopathy, Emerging Evidence: More Than A Big Heart

  • Open Access
  • Cardiomyopathy
  • Myocardial Disease (A Abbate and M Merlo, Section Editors)

Federico Angriman, Francesca Bortolotti, Maria Perotto, Rebecca Artioli, Cinzia Radesich, Alessia Paldino, Chiara Collesi, Serena Zacchigna, Gianfranco Sinagra, Matteo Dal Ferro

Exercise Rehabilitation for Heart Failure and Associated Cardiomyopathies

  • Open Access
  • Heart Failure
  • Myocardial Disease (A Abbate and M Merlo, Section Editors)

Macy E. Stahl, Nathan R. Weeldreyer, James P. MacNamara, Patricia F. Rodriguez Lozano, Jason D. Allen

Toward Providing Equitable Care for Adults with Congenital Heart Disease: Where We Are and Where We Need to Be

  • Open Access
  • Pediatric Cardiology
  • Congenital Heart Disease (RA Krasuski and G Fleming, Section Editors)

Jeannette P. Lin, Ariane Marelli, Aihua Liu, Liming Guo, Jennifer Desalvo, Danielle Hile, Mark Roeder, Jamil Aboulhosn, Curt J. Daniels

The New Ice Age in Electrophysiology: Ultra-Low-Temperature Cryoablation for Ventricular Tachycardia

Vadivelu Ramalingam, Elie Ganni, Katia Dyrda, Vidal Essebag, Jacqueline Joza, Atul Verma

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