Abstract Purpose of Review Ischemic cardiomyopathy refers to systolic left ventricular
dysfunction in the setting of obstructive coronary artery disease and represents the most …

Myocardial infarction is defined as sudden ischemic death of myocardial tissue. In the
clinical context, myocardial infarction is usually due to thrombotic occlusion of a coronary …

Background Ischemic mitral regurgitation is associated with a substantial risk of death.
Practice guidelines recommend surgery for patients with a severe form of this condition but …

Aims Regenerative treatment with mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) has been promising
in patients with ischaemic heart failure but needs confirmation in larger randomized trials …

Quantification of cardiac chamber size, ventricular mass, and function ranks among the most
clinically important and most frequently requested tasks of echocardiography …

Quantification of cardiac chamber size, ventricular mass and function ranks among the most
clinically important and most frequently requested tasks of echocardiography. Over the last …

Objectives: This study sought to evaluate the feasibility and safety of autologous bone
marrow–derived and cardiogenically oriented mesenchymal stem cell therapy and to probe …

This paper analyses the strengths and weaknesses of product, process, and genre
approaches to writing in terms of their view of writing and how they see the development of …

Maintenance of blood volume, vascular tone, and hemo-dynamic stability depends on a set
of elegant interactions between the heart and kidney. For some time, physicians have …

Aims To prospectively compare the agreement of left ventricular volumes and ejection
fraction by M-mode echocardiography (echo), 2D echo, radionuclide ventriculography and …