Background Information about the impact of frailty in patients with acute coronary syndromes
(ACS) is scarce. No study has assessed the prognostic impact of frailty as measured by the …

One hundred one patients with asymptomatic chronic severe aortic regurgitation and normal
ejection fraction were monitored for up to 10 years (mean 55.4 ± 33.5 months). Predefined …

Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) currently represents one of the most important causes
of long-term morbidity and mortality in the heart transplant population. In well-designed …

Lysosomal α-galactosidase A (α-Gal) is the enzyme deficient in Fabry disease (FD), an X-linked
glycosphingolipidosis caused by pathogenic mutations affecting the GLA gene. The early…

Background: Mesenchymal precursor cells are able to respond to tissue signals and differentiate
into a phenotype characteristic of mature cells of that tissue. We sought to investigate …

Objectives. The present study was undertaken to prospectively and comparatively evaluate
the role of serial myocardial perfusion imaging and coronary angiography for the detection of …

BACKGROUND: Lymphoma after heart transplantation (HT) has been associated with induction
therapy and herpesvirus infection. It is not known whether anti-viral agents administered …

MIBG uptake in the two patient groups. Myocardial MIBG uptake was apparent in the
anterolat eral myocardial region in 16 patients. In 2 patients studied from 6 mo to 2 y post-…

The Spanish Society of Cardiology's working group on heart failure, heart transplantation and
associated therapies organized a consensus conference on heart transplantation that was …

Background and Objectives: To characterize the frequency, risk factors, clinical presentation
and etiological subtypes of cerebrovascular diseases (CVD) following cardiac …