Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In this cross-sectional study utilizing electrocardiography (ECG) and 2D echocardiography, Munje and colleagues ...

Modulating miR-21 signaling may work to reduce heart damage in people with pulmonary hypertension (PH), a preclinical study suggests.

Echocardiographic studies in population-based samples or hypertensive cohorts show that a number of metabolic risk factors and the full expression of MS are associated with increased LV mass and LVH ...

WHEN medical terminology was less precise the expression "strained heart" was employed at times to describe obscurely but ominously diseased hearts. This diagnosis is no longer made, but currently the ...

"This study showed that RV function, including RV strain, decreases over time despite preserved LV ejection fraction, and is associated with poor cardiovascular outcomes. RV function may be more ...

VEGFNP/SDFNP delivery reduced pulmonary arterial pressure, vascular resistance, and vessel thickening, nearly preventing right ventricular hypertrophy in PAH rats. The treatment increased eNOS ...

SINCE the advent of open-heart surgery ventricular septal defects have become a surgically correctable anomaly. Surgeons, in their understandable enthusiasm, have recommended early repair of these ...

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