Gustavo A. Cardenas

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated 30,920 patients with preserved ejection fraction, including 11,792 obese patients and 19,128 nonobese patients to determine the impact of 4 LV geometric patterns, including normal structure, concentric remodeling (CR), as well as eccentric or concentric hypertrophy and obesity on mortality during an average followup of 3.2 ± 1.4 years.

TL;DR: A host of novel approaches involving HDL-C and reverse cholesterol transport hold the promise of fundamentally changing the natural history of atherosclerosis, the most common and important chronic disease in humans.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors retrospectively assessed 26,126 female patients with normal LV ejection fraction to determine the impact of left ventricular geometry, including normal structure, concentric remodeling, and eccentric or concentric LV hypertrophy, and obesity on mortality during an average follow-up of 1.7 years.

TL;DR: A patient with severe sepsis, who presented with moderatehypothermia and the classical electrocardiographic findings that have been described in patients with accidental hypothermia is presented, and Rewarming was associated with proportional improvement of the initial electro Cardiographic abnormalities.

TL;DR: Concentric remodeling is present in over one third of women referred for echocardiography and is associated with significantly increased mortality compared with normal LV structure and carries a prognosis comparable to frank LVH.