Background— The prognosis of patients with severe pulmonary hypertension (PHT) is poor.
To determine prognosis and guide therapy, an acute hemodynamic trial of selective …

Background— The prognosis and functional capacity of patients with pulmonary arterial
hypertension (PAH) is poor, and there is a need for safe, effective, inexpensive oral treatments. …

Objectives : This study sought to determine whether combined assessment of autonomic
tone plus cardiac electrical substrate identifies most patients at risk of serious events after …

Background Clinical investigations of shock in cardiac intensive care units (CICUs) have
primarily focused on acute myocardial infarction (AMI) complicated by cardiogenic shock (…

Background—This long-term, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, 2×2
factorial, angiographic trial evaluated the effects of cholesterol lowering and angiotensin-…

Objectives : The purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety, device performance, and
clinical outcome up to 2 years for patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (…

Background Single-center studies suggest that implementation of multidisciplinary cardiogenic
shock (CS) teams is associated with improved CS survival. Objectives The aim was to …

Importance Single-center and claims-based studies have described substantial changes in
the landscape of care in the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU). Professional societies have …

Objective: To examined the effects of different training modalities on exercise capacity (Vo
2peak ), systolic function, muscular strength and endurance and quality of life in heart failure …

Osteoporosis is a silent epidemic in the world today. With the increase in the elderly population,
there will be an increase in the prevalence of osteoporosis, and so the need for focused …