Choi DJ. Prevalence and prognostic implication of non-calcified plaque in asymptomatic population with coronary artery calcium score of zero. Korean Circ J 2013; 43:154–160. 26. Blaha MJ, Budoff MJ, DeFilippis AP, Blankstein R, Rivera JJ, Agatston A, O’Leary DH, Lima J, Blumenthal RS, Nasir K. Associations between C-reactive protein, coronary artery calcium, and cardiovascular events: implicati...

Departments of 1. Medical Imaging and 2. Cardiology, Cliniques Universitaires St Luc. Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium Background: A 42-year-old male presented with dyspnea following a syncopal episode a few hours before admission. He had completed his military service 2 months previously. Electrocardiogram showed a complete heart branch block with severe bradycardia measured...

This is a report of a 30-year-old male patient with a six-year history of chronic polymyositis. There was no family history of muscular or cardiac disease. Three years after the onset of the illness the patient developed congestive cardiac failure with evidence of complete heart block. Treatment with steroids failed to arrest the course of the disease. Necropsy showed abnormalities in the proxi...

To evaluate the frequency and clinical features of heart involvement in Fabry disease (FD) diagnostic value cardiac MRI speckle-tracking echocardiography.

Although cardiac involvement in Whipple's disease has been reported previously, the extent and significance of such involvement has not been stressed. In our series of 19 patients, 58% had clinical cardiac findings and 79% had gross cardiac lesions at autopsy. Histologically there were PAS-positive macrophages in the pericardium, myocardium, and valves of each of these patients. These collectio...

BACKGROUND Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is an inherited progressive muscle disorder caused by defects in muscle proteins. As the incidence of this condition is low, not many are familiar with the multisystem involvement. At times, cardiac disease may even be the predominant manifestation in the form of arrhythmias, conduction defects, and cardiomyopathies. The progression of the disease can lead to ...

The relationship between joint inflammation and heart disease was first suggested by Bouillaud in 1836. In 1891, Charcot described endocarditis and pericarditis in ‘chronic rheumatism’, differentiating cardiac disease in rheumatic fever (rheumatic heart disease) from that in other forms of rheumatism (rheumatoid heart disease (RHD)). It is now clear that cardiac pathology is common in rheumatoi...

We measured left ventricular chamber dimension and wall thickness using M-mode echocardiography in 61 adolescents with systolic or diastolic blood pressures above the 90th percentile for age and sex and in 49 norraoteosive adolescents. Left ventricular posterior wall and ventricular septal thickness indexed to body surface area were significantly greater (p < 0.001) in the hypertensive group th...

OBJECTIVE Cardiac involvement in drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) syndrome varies considerably between 4% and 21%. Here we present our case and review literatures for its diagnosis and management. An algorithm for diagnosis of cardiac involvement in DRESS syndrome is proposed in this article. DATA SOURCES Data regarding DRESS-associated myocarditis and eosinophilic my...