- Anomalous Left Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Artery: The Role of Multimodal Imaging A Case Report
Anomalous Left Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Artery (ALCAPA) is a rare coronary artery anomaly which accounts for 0.250.5% of all congenital cardiac diseases, where most die within the first yea... Read More
- Evaluation of the Correlation between the rs4918 Polymorphism of AHSG Gene and Coronary Artery Calcification in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease
Objectives: Fetuin-A is a circulating calcification inhibitor that prevents coronary artery calcification (CAC) by increasing calcium phosphate solubility and inhibiting VSMC differentiation and apopt... Read More
- Mosaic Fabry Disease in a Male Presenting as Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
We describe a 55 year old male diagnosed with cardiomyopathy due to Fabry disease. Biochemical testing of blood spot and plasma showed low-normal alpha-galactosidase A (-Gal A) levels. Genetic testin... Read More
- Cardiac Amyloidosis Therapy: A Systematic Review
Heart involvement in Cardiac Amyloidosis (CA) results in a worsening of the prognosis in almost all patients with both light-chain (AL) and transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR). The mainstream CA is a res... Read More
- Three Myocardial Diseases in One Heart: Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy, Left Ventricular Noncompaction and Myocarditis
Purpose: To evaluate the clinical features, laboratory and instrumental tests results and the effectiveness of complex treatment in a patient with multiple etiologies of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) w... Read More
- Overlapping Phenotype of Cardiomyopathy in a Patient with Double Mutation: A Case Report
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and left ventricular noncompaction commonly occur as separate disorders with distinct clinical and pathoanatomical features. However, these cardiomyopathies may have a simi... Read More
- Cardiac Involvement in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
Cardiovascular disorders are the main complication in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). contributing to both morbidity and mortality. This review considers clinical studies unveili... Read More
- Constraints in Clinical Cardiology and Personalized Medicine: Interrelated Concepts in Clinical Cardiology
Systems biology is established as an integrative computational analysis methodology with practical and theoretical applications in clinical cardiology. The integration of genetic and molecular compone... Read More
- Genetic Diagnosis in Sudden Cardiac Death: The Crucial Role of Multidisciplinary Care
Sudden death, especially at a young age, may be caused by an underlying genetic cause. Hereditary conditions with an increased risk of sudden death at a young age include cardiomyopathies, arrhythmia ... Read More
- Pathogenic Intronic Splice-Affecting Variants in MYBPC3 in Three Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Genetic variants in MYBPC3 are one of the most common causes of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). While variants in MYBPC3 affecting canonical splice site dinucleotides are a well-characterised cause... Read More
- The Multi-Ethnic New Zealand Study of Acute Coronary Syndromes (MENZACS): Design and Methodology
Background. Each year, approximately 5000 New Zealanders are admitted to hospital with first-time acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The Multi-Ethnic New Zealand Study of Acute Coronary Syndromes (MENZACS... Read More
- Biventricular Strain Imaging with Cardiac MRI in Genotyped and Histology Validated Amyloid Cardiomyopathy
Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) is a common and potentially fatal infiltrative cardiomyopathy. Contrast-enhanced cardiac MRI (CMR) is used as a diagnostic tool. However, utility of CMR for the comprehensive ... Read More
- Cardiac Amyloidosis: Diagnostic Tools for a Challenging Disease
Amyloidosis is a group of diseases in which amyloid fibrils build up in tissues, leading to organ dysfunction. Cardiac involvement is observed in immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis (AL) and transt... Read More
- Reassessment of Gene-Elusive Familial Dilated Cardiomyopathy Leading to the Discovery of a Homozygous AARS2 Variant The Importance of Regular Reassessment of Genetic Findings
Background: AARS2 encodes the mitochondrial protein alanyl-tRNA synthetase 2 (MT-AlaRS), an important enzyme in oxidative phosphorylation. Variants in AARS2 have previously been associated with infant... Read More
- Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection as Presenting Feature of Vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
A spontaneous coronary artery dissection as the sole presenting feature of vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is an uncommon finding. We present a 33-year-old woman with sudden onset chest pain caused by... Read More
- Human SMAD4 Genomic Variants Identified in Individuals with Heritable and Early-Onset Thoracic Aortic Disease
Thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAAs) that progress to acute thoracic aortic dissections (TADs) are life-threatening vascular events that have been associated with altered transforming growth factor (TGF) ... Read More
- Mutations in MYBPC3 and MYH7 in Association with Brugada Type 1 ECG Pattern: Overlap between Brugada Syndrome and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Brugada syndrome (BrS) is an inherited disorder with high allelic and genetic heterogeneity clinically characterized by typical coved-type ST segment elevation at the electrocardiogram (ECG), which ma... Read More
- A Novel Human Biospecimen Repository for Clinical and Molecular Investigation of Thoracic Aortopathy
Thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) is a heritable aortopathy with significant morbidity and mortality, affecting children and adults. Genetic causes, pathobiological mechanisms, and prognostic markers are... Read More
- Specific Deletion of the FHA Domain Containing SLMAP3 Isoform in Postnatal Myocardium Has No Impact on Structure or Function
Sarcolemmal membrane-associated proteins (SLMAPs) belong to the superfamily of tail-anchored membrane proteins known to regulate diverse biological processes, including protein trafficking and signal ... Read More
- Azygos Vein ICD Lead Implantation Lowers Defibrillation Threshold in a Patient with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
A 14-year-old boy with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) diagnosed at the age of 1 year and with massive left ventricular hypertrophy suffered an episode of ventricular fibrillation during mild effort... Read More