Lofty L. Basta

TL;DR: In patients with asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction after myocardial infarction, long-term administration of captopril was associated with an improvement in survival and reduced morbidity and mortality due to major cardiovascular events.

TL;DR: Doctors pursue a less aggressive management approach to coronary disease in women than in men, despite greater cardiac disability in women, when differences were adjusted for important covariates.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed left ventriculograms for diastolic and systolic volumes, global left ventricular sphericity, extent of wall motion abnormality, and endocardial curvature and found that the presence of MR was related to the risk of developing a cardiovascular event during 3.5 years of follow-up.

TL;DR: Although the Survival and Ventricular Enlargement Study population was selected for left ventricular dysfunction, the majority of patients who currently are judged clinically as unsuitable for thrombolytic therapy have a higher risk for adverse cardiovascular events.

TL;DR: Preangioplasty intravascular ultrasound in 81 patients showed that adaptive remodeling occurred in 35% and constrictive remodeling in 34%, and multivariate analysis showed that smoking and fibrocalcific plaques were associated with constrictives remodeling, whereas small vessel size and hypercholesterolemia were associatedwith adaptive remodels.