Teresa De Marco

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tested the hypothesis that prophylactic cardiac-resynchronization therapy in the form of biventricular stimulation with a pacemaker with or without a defibrillator would reduce the risk of death and hospitalization among patients with advanced chronic heart failure and intraventricular conduction delays.

TL;DR: Heart failure with PSF is common and is characterized by a unique patient profile, and event rates are worrisome and reflect a need for more effective management strategies.

TL;DR: The CRT improved functional status in patients indicated for an ICD who also have symptomatic HF and intraventricular conduction delay and a subgroup of patients with advanced HF consistently demonstrated improvement across all functional status end points.

TL;DR: In patients with acute decompensated heart failure, a positive cardiac troponin test is associated with higher in-hospital mortality, independently of other predictive variables.

TL;DR: In this paper, a change in terminology and a new definition of pulmonary hypertension due to LHD was proposed, and the authors suggest to abandon "out-of-proportion" PH and to distinguish "isolated post-capillary PH" from "post-CAPillary PH with a precapillary component" based on the pressure difference between diastolic pulmonary artery pressure and pulmonary artery wedge pressure.