Jae K. Oh

TL;DR: Although mild enzyme elevation after successful PTCA is likely due to a small amount of myocardial necrosis, this phenomenon was not associated with increased cardiac morbidity or mortality, and release of CK-MB without other clinical evidence for myocardia infarction does not in itself warrant longer hospitalization, and routine serial enzyme determinations are probably unnecessary.

TL;DR: Mortality and heart failure after LVAD surgery appear to be predominantly determined by echocardiographic evidence of inefficient unloading of the left ventricle and persistence of right ventricular dysfunction.

TL;DR: Preoperative, perioperative and postoperative arrhythmias in 52 consecutive patients who underwent operation for Ebstein's anomaly were reviewed and seven patients died suddenly or developed symptomatic arrhythmia.

TL;DR: Measurement of pericardial thickness with transesophageal echocardiography is reproducible and should be a valuable adjunct in assessing constrictive pericARDitis.

TL;DR: Longitudinal sS most accurately detects longitudinal systolic dysfunction in AL and best differentiates patients with advanced-CA with increased ventricular thickness from patients with AL-normal-wall-thickness.