Michael J. Mullen

TL;DR: CHF is associated with autonomic dysfunction, which can be quantified by measuring HRV, and a reduction in SDNN identifies patients at high risk of death and is a better predictor of death due to progressive heart failure than other conventional clinical measurements.

TL;DR: Midterm to long-term survival after TAVI was encouraging in this high-risk patient population, although a substantial proportion of patients died within the first year.

TL;DR: Exercise capacity is depressed in ACHD patients (even in allegedly asymptomatic patients) on a par with chronic heart failure subjects and is related to the frequency and duration of hospitalization.

TL;DR: These findings suggest that brief episodes of mental stress, similar to those encountered in everyday life, may cause transient endothelial dysfunction in healthy young individuals and might represent a mechanistic link between mental stress and atherogenesis.

TL;DR: S typhi vaccine generates a mild inflammatory reaction associated with temporary but profound dysfunction of the arterial endothelium in both resistance and conduit vessels to both physical and pharmacological dilator stimuli, which might explain the association between infection and inflammation and the enhanced risk of an acute cardiovascular event.