ALLMedicine™ Cardiovascular Pathology Center

Dec 19th, 2022 - Rationale: Aortic diameter is currently used as a gold standard in international guidelines for prediction of aorta pathology (aortic aneurysm and aortic dissection). However, aortic diameter has proven to be insufficiently accurate for making dec...

Dec 9th, 2022 - Pseudoaneurysms arising from the saphenous venous graft (SVGs) are an uncommon complication of the coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). Although angiography is the gold standard, computed tomography angiography (CTA) of the coronary arteries is th...

Nov 30th, 2022 - Patients with Ebstein anomaly (EA) have a variety of clinical manifestation. The assessment of structural and geometric characteristics of the heart is important for optimal management. We retrospectively analyzed echocardiography database from 20...

Nov 29th, 2022 - Descriptive morphological studies of the normal heart are lacking. Previous autopsy studies have focused mainly on heart weight. We characterize the normal heart by providing normal dimensions of the atria, ventricles, valves and sub-epicardial fa...

Nov 23rd, 2022 - Dallas criteria (DC) and European Society of Cardiology criteria (ESCC) have provided valuable frameworks for the histologic diagnosis and classification of myocarditis in endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) specimens. However, the adaptation and the usag...

Apr 1st, 2016 - Surgical aortic specimens are usually examined in Pathology Departments as a result of treatment of aneurysms or dissections. A number of diseases, genetic syndromes (Marfan syndrome, Loeys-Dietz syndrome, etc.), and vasculopathic aging processes ...

Jun 9th, 2015 - Inflammatory diseases of the aorta include routine atherosclerosis, aortitis, periaortitis, and atherosclerosis with excessive inflammatory responses, such as inflammatory atherosclerotic aneurysms. The nomenclature and histologic features of thes...

Nov 26th, 2009 - Cardiovascular remodelling in the conditioned athlete is frequently associated with physiological ECG changes. Abnormalities, however, may be detected which represent expression of an underlying heart disease that puts the athlete at risk of arrhy...

Dec 19th, 2022 - Rationale: Aortic diameter is currently used as a gold standard in international guidelines for prediction of aorta pathology (aortic aneurysm and aortic dissection). However, aortic diameter has proven to be insufficiently accurate for making dec...

Nov 8th, 2022 - Gait disturbances can be observed in all age groups, and may be due to different conditions, such as advanced age, stroke, head trauma, spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, myelomeningocele, among others. The aforementioned gait disorders are assoc...

Nov 8th, 2022 - Gait disturbances can be observed in all age groups, and may be due to different conditions, such as advanced age, stroke, head trauma, spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, myelomeningocele, among others. The aforementioned gait disorders are assoc...

Oct 14th, 2022 - Patients with diabetes and metabolic diseases such as obesity, hypertension and dyslipidemia have a myocardial environment that results in endothelial dysfunction, altered metabolism and little potential for regeneration by intrinsic or extrinsica...

Sep 9th, 2022 - Despite significant advances in the treatment of coronary artery disease, acute coronary syndromes (ACS) remain one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide. In Chile, it is estimated that cardiovascular disease is responsible fo...

Nov 28th, 2022 - MADRID, Spain — The results demonstrated by research in an animal model and the good perspectives offered by preliminary studies in humans have inspired interest in intermittent fasting among people in general and specialists alike. This was refle...

Sep 13th, 2022 - Although it is known that individuals living with HIV infection have an increased risk for cardiovascular disease, the underlying pathology behind this observation remains unclear, the authors of a new analysis say. "Over the last few decades peop...

Jun 23rd, 2021 - Pregnant women with a history of bariatric surgery have better cardiovascular adaptation to pregnancy compared with women who have similar early-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) but no history of weight loss surgery, new data suggest. "Pregnant wom...

Jan 20th, 2021 - The national rate of methamphetamine overdose deaths shot up significantly between 2011 and 2018, particularly among non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native communities, new research shows. Rates rose for both men and women but more so amon...

Aug 5th, 2019 - Bringing handheld ultrasonography devices to the patient's bedside clinical assessment helped in diagnosing heart conditions, a meta-analysis indicated. With transthoracic echocardiography as standard reference, diagnostic parameters of focused ca...