Chicago Classification v4.0 (CCv4.0) is the updated classification scheme for esophageal
motility disorders using metrics from high‐resolution manometry (HRM). Fifty‐two diverse …

Acute heart failure is a syndrome in which emergency physicians, cardiologists, intensivists,
nurses, and other healthcare providers have to cooperate to provide ‘rapid’benefit to the …

With the aging of the world’s population, a large proportion of patients seen in cardiovascular
practice are older adults, but many patients also exhibit signs of physical frailty. …

… Serum B-type natriuretic peptide and cardiac C-reactive protein concentrations were measured
in CKD patients with the Access 2 Immunoassay System (Beckman Coulter, Inc, Fullerton…

… Addition of baseline cTnT measurements to clinical risk factors was associated with only
modest improvement in discrimination, with change in C statistic of 0.015 for HF and 0.013 for …

The global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic brought significant mortality with
more than 3 million deaths worldwide since January 2020. 1 Concerted efforts focused on …

The safety of dobutamine echocardiography in coronary artery disease is well established.
This study shows that dobutamine can be given safely to patients with AS during noninvasive …

Background : Cardiogenic shock (CS) is a multifactorial, hemodynamically complex
syndrome associated with high mortality. Despite advances in reperfusion and mechanical …

Study objective We aim to prospectively validate the diagnostic accuracy of the recently
developed 0-h/1-h algorithm, using high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) for the early rule-…

Objectives : The study sought to determine the 99th percentile upper reference limit for the
high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T assay (hs-cTnT) in 3 large independent cohorts. …