Takotsubo syndrome is an acute reversible heart failure syndrome that is increasingly
recognized in modern cardiology practice. This Position Statement from the European Society of …

Inflammatory diseases of the aorta include routine atherosclerosis, aortitis, periaortitis, and
atherosclerosis with excessive inflammatory responses, such as inflammatory atherosclerotic …

Over 1.5 million deaths worldwide are caused by neurocardiogenic syndromes. Furthermore,
the consequences of deleterious brain-heart interactions are not limited to fatal …

Objectives : We studied the prognostic implications of midwall fibrosis in dilated cardiomyopathy
(DCM) in a prospective longitudinal study. Background : Risk stratification of patients …

Importance Risk stratification of patients with nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy is primarily
based on left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). Superior prognostic factors may improve …

Background— Cardiac amyloidosis can be diagnostically challenging. Cardiovascular magnetic
resonance (CMR) can assess abnormal myocardial interstitium. Methods and Results— …

Objectives : We investigated the significance of fibrosis detected by late gadolinium
enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance for the prediction of major clinical events in …

Objectives : We sought to identify the histologic basis of myocardial late gadolinium enhancement
cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). …

… and Sheppard MN : "Aetiology of sudden cardiac death in athletes in the United Kingdom: a
pathological study". Heart 2009; 95: 1409. … Sharma and Sheppard are joint senior authors. …

Transgenic technology has potentially solved many of the immunological difficulties of using
pig organs to support life in the human recipient. Nevertheless, other problems still remain. …