Objective.—To discuss the diagnosis and treatment of malignant pericardial Objective.—To
fusion and focus on quantitating the success and complication rates of the many treatment …

Background—Considerable variability exists in the use of pharmacological
thromboprophylaxis among acutely ill medical patients, partly because clinically relevant …

Distinguishing constrictive pericarditis from restrictive cardiomyopathy is a difficult clinical
challenge. We review published reports in which hemodynamic criteria were used to …

Objective. The management of mural thrombus complicating acute anterior myocardial
infarction remains controversial in part because of the small size of studies on this topic. We …

The clinical importance of asymptomatic proximal and distal deep vein thrombosis (DVT)
remains uncertain and controversial. The aim of this retrospective, post-hoc analysis was to …

BACKGROUND: The use of N-acetylcysteine for the prevention of contrast-induced
nephropathy has been the subject of numerous clinical trials and meta-analyses. We sought …

Background While each of the available femoral arterial sealing devices claims equivalent
safety to manual compression following invasive cardiac procedures, these claims are …

BACKGROUND: Cardiac transplantation has been utilized increasingly in patients with
sarcoid cardiomyopathy. We sought to review outcomes in patients with sarcoidosis who …

To clarify whether echocardiographic detection of a vegetation 10 mm or larger in size in
patients with left-sided infective endocarditis poses an increased risk for complications, we …

Background We were concerned that a fixed rather than a weight-based dosing regimen of
dalteparin sodium to prevent venous thromboembolism (VTE) might result in decreased …