New York, NY - Wall-motion abnormalities detected using echocardiography can identify adults with no clinically recognized CVD who are more likely to go on to have cardiovascular events or die of CV ...

Background Exercise stress echocardiography (ESE) is widely used to detect inducible myocardial ischaemia. However, a substantial proportion of ESEs remains inconclusive or shows abnormal ...

The most common regional wall motion abnormality seen in Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is apical akinesis with a hypercontractile base (that is, apical ballooning). However, three additional types of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mavacamten improved left ventricular hypertrophy, decreased measures of heart stiffness and restored normal ...

Since acute idiopathic/viral pericarditis is a common cause of transient CP, ST elevation and PR segment depression in all derivations except a VR and V 1, and diffuse T wave negativity may be ...

The septum of the heart is a wall of tissue that separates the left and right sides of the heart and enables blood to flow as it should. It consists of the atrial septum and the ventricular septum.

Women who take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) early in their pregnancies may be more likely to give birth to babies with congenital defects, particularly cardiac septal defects. Women ...

Ventricular septal defect (VSD) is a birth defect in babies that causes a hole in the wall (or septum) between a baby’s lower heart chambers. Heart chambers are also called right and left ventricles.

A hole in the heart is a nonmedical term for a type of congenital heart defect. There are many types of holes in the heart, and most are present from birth. Around 1% of babies born in the United ...