A 58-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital 3 weeks after lumbar surgery because of diplopia and fever. Left leg pain and a rash had preceded the fever and diplopia. A diagnosis was made.

To determine the best path forward, you need to work with a cardiologist. They will review the tests you had and can ...

THE DVLA’S full list of medical conditions that could affect your legal right to drive have been revealed. The Driver and ...

Willis was told she had a congenital condition, meaning she was born with the hole in her heart. It was closed during a ...

Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy (CCM) is a significant complication of cirrhosis, but its progression and underlying mechanisms ...

Dear Doctors: At age 51, I was diagnosed with severe rheumatic mitral stenosis. After a second round of tests, treatment was changed from open-heart surgery to balloon valvuloplasty. What can I do to ...

Background: Circumferential calcification of the left atrium, commonly referred to as "porcelain atrium" or "coconut atrium," was first documented in 1898 in patients with rheumatic heart disease.

Results presented in late-breaking oral session showed danicamtiv was well tolerated with significant improvements in ventricular and atrial function in patients with genetic dilated cardiomyopathy ...

We present a case of left atrial thrombus mimicking myxoma after orthotopic heart transplantation. Multimodality imaging established the diagnosis of atrial myxoma, and the patient was treated ...

Introduction: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a common genetic cardiac disease marked by abnormal ventricular hypertrophy. Recent studies have highlighted that left atrial (LA) ...

Nearly two-thirds of patients with left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) — in which the heart struggles to relax and fill with blood between heartbeats — also have pulmonary hypertension, a ...

Atrial functional mitral regurgitation (AFMR) is a common type of MR linked to high rates of heart failure, highlighting the need to understand its prognostic factors. Tricuspid regurgitation (TR) is ...