Michael Y. Henein

TL;DR: Nonsurgical septal reduction significantly reduces left ventricular outflow tract obstruction and improves symptoms in some patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, and the technique may provide an alternative to surgical myomectomy in selected patients.

TL;DR: Body wasting is a significant predictor of survival in patients with CF independent of lung function, arterial blood oxygen and carbon dioxide tensions and patients with >85% ideal body weight had a better prognosis at 5 years.

TL;DR: Over a period of 12 months, intensive atorvastatin therapy was unable to attenuate CAC progression compared with standard ator VASTatin therapy, and the possibility remains that the time window was too short to demonstrate an effect.

TL;DR: The available data from small studies show that in CHF conventional diuretics reduce the risk of death and worsening heart failure compared to placebo and improve exercise capacity, compared to active control.

TL;DR: Although longitudinally directed fibres—situated mainly in the subepicardium and subendocardium regions of the left and right ventricular free walls and the papillary muscles—comprise only a small proportion of the total ventricular myocardial mass, they play a major role in the maintenance of normal ejection fraction and in determining atrioventricular interactions.