Sixty eight‐year‐old male with ischemic cardiomyopathy has this EKG finding

Male breast cancer: finding the way in this uncommon path

Male breast cancer (BC) is a rare disease and accounts for less than 1% of all BCs. Knowledge of this disease is limited and mainly derives from small single-institution retrospective studies with contradictory results. The management of male patients with BC is generalised from the management of BC in women. However, evidence is growing that the biology of male BC differs at least partly from ...

Myocardial Extracellular Matrix Volume has independent prognostic value in patients with non-ischemic cardiomyopathy

Background Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is the most validated independent prognostic factor for mortality, ventricular arrhythmias and heart failure (HF) in non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy without etiology. However, mild or moderate reduction LVEF yield limited predictive value. The amount of fibrosis, detected by late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) on CMR, has also been validate...

My patient's brain MRI has cerebral microbleeds--what does this finding mean?

Ischemic Cardiomyopathy in Humans

Background Ischemic cardiomyopathy is characterized by myocyte loss, reactive cellular hypertrophy, and ventricular scarring. However, the relative contribution of these tissue and cellular processes to late failure remains to be determined. Methods and Results Ten hearts were obtained from individuals undergoing cardiac transplantation as a result of chronic coronary artery disease in its term...

comparison of benefits from cardiac resynchronization therapy between patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy and patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

background: cardiac resynchronization therapy (crt) is an effective treatment for patients with moderate to severe heart failure. however, 20-30% of patients remain non-responders to crt. we sought to identify which patients benefit the most from crt in regard to the etiology of heart failure. methods: eighty-three consecutive patients (62 men) who had a biventricular pacemaker inserted at tehr...