So-called diabetic cardiomyopathy may affect up to 20% of people with chronic diabetes and represents a unique target for treatment. In this interview, James Januzzi, MD, FACC, and Alison L. Bailey, ...

Treatment with AT-001, a highly selective aldose reductase inhibitor, had no significant effect on exercise capacity as measured by peak oxygen uptake (VO2) among individuals with diabetic ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM, is a genetic disease in which the heart muscle grows thicker than normal. You might think of the term “big-hearted” to connote something good, says Dr.

In healthy hearts, cardiac muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) naturally renew at approximately 0.5% per year. However, in failing hearts, this renewal rate drops dramatically – to 0.03% in cases of ...

4,5 Early postoperative complications included reoperation for bleeding in 2 (5%) and transient ischemic attack in 1 (2% ... Rowin EJ, Maron BJ, Haas TS, Garberich RF, Wang W, Link MS, Maron MS.

Noninducibility of any VT at PES* Established predictive value when performed from multiple sites (RV and LV) ≤3 extrastimuli Not useful for patients without inducible VT; suboptimal negative ...

Medically reviewed by Yasmine S. Ali, MD, MSCI Atrial fibrillation is the most common type of sustained cardiac arrhythmia—or ...