Lee and Atwood (March 6 issue) 1 provide an example of a calcified left ventricular aneurysm visualized by computed tomography (CT). On closer inspection, the pattern of calcifications in the apical ...

Left ventricular thrombus (LVT) may occur in a variety of conditions including acute anterior wall myocardial infarction, cardiomyopathy with left ventricular ejection fraction of less than 50%, and ...

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To convert the values for urea nitrogen to millimoles per liter, multiply by 0.357. To convert the values for creatinine to micromoles per liter, multiply by 88.4. To convert the values for glucose to ...

At three months of follow-up, patients hospitalized for a serious heart attack who were treated with the oral blood thinner rivaroxaban for a blood clot in the left ventricle did as well as similar ...

Introduction: Although vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) are recommended as first-line anticoagulants for patients with left ventricular thrombus (LVT), accumulating evidence suggests direct oral ...

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The effectiveness of rivaroxaban, a direct oral anticoagulant, in resolving acute left ventricular thrombus in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) was similar to that of ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetically and phenotypically diverse disease with some patients at risk of sudden death or heart failure. Maron et al. used cardiovascular magnetic resonance, ...

A left ventricular aneurysm can form after a transmural myocardial infarction and involves dilation of the left ventricular wall in an abnormal fashion. Most commonly, the apex of the heart is ...