Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) predisposes to cardiovascular diseases in adulthood. The mechanisms of this phenomenon remain cryptic. We hypothesized that heart mitochondria in IUGR-born adult ...

Evidence of right heart dysfunction—especially right ventricular longitudinal strain (RVLS) on two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography (2-D STE)—is tightly linked to higher mortality among ...

The study covered in this summary was published in medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Right ventricular (RV) dilation or dysfunction in patients hospitalized with acute ...

Pulmonary Circulation, Vol. 5, No. 1 (March 2015), pp. 171-183 (13 pages) AbstractMany dyspneic patients who undergo computerized tomographic pulmonary angiography (CTPA) for presumed acute pulmonary ...

A set of normal values of three-dimensional echocardiographic right ventricular volume and function was first established in a large Chinese population, which was significantly smaller than those ...

LONDON, England—An echocardiographic analysis of patients with severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR) treated with transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) shows that the quality-of-life improvements ...

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. It may follow that the respiratory distress and myocarditis common in patients hospitalized with ...

Following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, targeting mild hypercapnia vs normocapnia during IMV was linked to less right ventricular dysfunction.