Response to Letter Regarding Article, “Prosthetic Heart Valve”

Response to letter regarding article, "Myostatin regulates energy homeostasis in the heart and prevents heart failure".

Response to letter regarding article, "Four-variable risk model in men and women with heart failure".

Response to Letter Regarding Article, “Four-Variable Risk Model in Men and Women With Heart Failure” We appreciated reading the letter to the editor by Petretta and Cuocolo regarding our article “Four-Variable Risk Model in Men and Women With Heart Failure.” In an answer to their query on the exponential equation we provided (Survival(t) = e), this equation predicts survival free from all-cause...

Letter by Charitos et al regarding article, "Reoperation of left heart valve bioprostheses according to age at implantation".

Letter by Charitos et al Regarding Article, “Reoperation of Left Heart Valve Bioprostheses According to Age at Implantation” To the Editor: We read with great interest the work of Chan and colleagues1 on the age-stratified incidence of reoperations after left heart biological valve implantation. Results on this area of research were greatly anticipated because previous works in this field were ...

Prosthetic heart valve.

A 55-year-old invasive/clinical cardiologist worked full time, exercised regularly, and was asymptomatic. Two weeks previously, he had new onset of angina on exertion. Echocardiography/Doppler and cardiac catheterization confirmed the clinical assessment of severe aortic stenosis with a valve area of 0.5 cm/m. The aortic valve was tricuspid; left ventricular ejection fraction was 0.60. Coronary...

Response to letter regarding article, "reducing sodium intake to prevent stroke: time for action, not hesitation".