Heart failure represents one of most important causes of death in Western countries. Its high mortality originates in part from severe complications like cardiac contractile dysfunction and/or sudden cardiac death caused by ventricular arrhythmias (Shin et al. 2007). Unfortunately, significant portion of heart failure stems from use (and misuse) of several drugs and medications. Indeed, the car...

introduction: aortic dissection is a rare condition in young women and usually related with congenital anomalies of aorta and connective tissue disorders. we reported a 34-year-old postpartum woman with aortic dissection. case presentation: the patient complained of respiratory distress and weakness with no abdominal pain or chest pain 20 days after delivery and had no history of hypertension d...

Modern advanced imaging techniques have allowed increasingly more rigorous assessment of the cardiac structure and function of several types of cardiomyopathies. In contemporary cardiology practice, echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging are widely used to provide a basic framework in the evaluation and management of cardiomyopathies. Echocardiography is the quintessential imag...

One of the obstacles to a better understanding of the pathogenesis of human cardiomyopathies has been poor availability of heart-tissue samples at early stages of disease development. This has possibly changed by the advent of patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) from which cardiomyocytes can be derived in vitro. The main promise of hiPSC technology is that by capturing the eff...

Cardiomyopathies are a group of diseases characterized by the structural and functional abnormalities heart muscles in absence other illnesses that might be responsible for observed myocardial anomaly. Hypertrophic dilated cardiomyopathies most prevalent types. Rare types include restrictive cardiomyopathy with arrhythmia. Dilated has documented prevalence 36 cases per 100,000 population Europe...