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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurjpc/zwae115 | DOI Listing |
Eur J Radiol
September 2025
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Rationale/objectives: Image-based vascular biomarkers may help expedite evaluation of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH), which remains difficult to diagnose despite available effective therapies. We sought to determine if vascular heterogeneity and central redistribution on chest CT differed between CTEPH, pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), and control groups.
Materials/methods: We retrospectively included 108 patients who underwent right heart catheterization and chest CT (2011-2018).
Int J Cardiol
September 2025
Federico II University, Naples, Italy; Federico II University Hospital, Naples, Italy. Electronic address:
Background: Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a rare, life-threatening form of heart failure occurring in late pregnancy or postpartum, with variable clinical course and outcomes. We report preliminary clinical and echocardiographic findings from a national Italian registry of PPCM patients METHODS: The study was approved by the institutional Ethics Committee and registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT05878041).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Cardiol
September 2025
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan.
Background: Preoperative physical frailty is a significant predictor of adverse postoperative outcomes in older patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Inflammation plays a crucial role in the development of frailty and contributes to postoperative complications. This study investigated the effects of preoperative beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate (HMB), arginine, and glutamine supplementation on inflammatory markers, nutritional status, and renal function in older patients undergoing cardiac surgery.
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September 2025
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; Department of Cardiac Surgery, Kaiser San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA. Electronic address:
Background: Kimura disease is a rare inflammatory condition that typically manifests with subcutaneous nodules of the head and neck. This is the first documented case of intracardiac Kimura disease.
Case Summary: A 57-year-old woman presented with a heart murmur and dyspnea.
J Am Heart Assoc
September 2025
Division of Preventive Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School Boston MA USA.
Background: Traditional cardiovascular risk assessment entails investigator-defined exposure levels and individual risk markers in multivariable analysis. We sought to determine whether an alternative unbiased learning analysis might provide further insights into vascular risk.
Methods: We conducted an unsupervised learning (k-means cluster) analysis in the Women's Health Study (N=26 443) using baseline levels of triglycerides, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol to form novel exposures.