Researchers from the Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine identified an enzyme, alpha-kinase 2 (ALPK2) that is ...

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal. Diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a specific type of cardiomyopathy that is independent of hypertension and ...

Elevated right ventricular systolic pressure and right ventricular dysfunction ... such as secondary pulmonary hypertension (PH), right heart failure, and ventilation/perfusion mismatch. Although ...

Pulmonary vein stenosis in children is associated with a poor prognosis. However, the cause and risk factors for mortality remain uncertain. This retrospective, single‐center study identified children ...

Because life expectancy and the prevalence of risk factors such as hypertension, obesity and diabetes are rising globally, heart failure (HF) is growing into a major health problem. Impairment of ...

Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD ... which may require attention and interventions to prevent patients from progressing into heart failure. Clinical data were collected from 855 patients ...

Diastolic heart failure is defined clinically when signs and symptoms of heart failure are present in the presence of preserved left ventricular systolic function (ejection fraction >45%).