The New England Journal of Medicine

Focused Cardiac Ultrasonography for Left Ventricular Systolic Function

Focused cardiac ultrasonography is a point-of-care, qualitative or semiquantitative means of assessing cardiac size, structure, and function that is performed and interpreted by the clinician at the ...
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SAFE-HEaRt: A pilot study assessing the cardiac safety of HER2 targeted therapy in patients with HER2 positive breast cancer and reduced left ventricular function.

Real-world (RW) characteristics, treatment (tx) patterns, and overall survival (OS) in US patients (pts) with metastatic breast cancer (mBC) and CNS metastases (CNS mets). This is an ASCO Meeting ...
Medical Dialogues

SGLT-2 Inhibitors Improve Cardiac Function and Symptoms in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Study

A new study published in the journal of Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine revealed that Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT-2i) were associated with improved left ...
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Reduced Vascular Load, Better RV Function With Dapagliflozin in HFpEF

A new analysis, designed to shed light on the benefits of SGLT2 inhibition in patients who have heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), shows that dapagliflozin (Farxiga; AstraZeneca) ...
BMJ Case Reports

Recurrent ventricular tachycardia associated with non-compliance with thyroxine treatment for hypothyroidism

A female in her early 30s with a previous history of postpartum granulomatous hypophysitis presented with palpitations and a syncopal episode. She was haemodynamically unstable on arrival with a heart ...