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Association between common cardiovascular risk factors and clinical phenotype i...
Lopes, Luis R.; Losi, Maria-Angela; Sheikh, Nabeel; Laroche, Cécile; Charron, Philippe; Gimeno, Juan; Kaski, Juan P.; Maggioni, Aldo P.; Tavazzi, LuigiAims: The interaction between common cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF) and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is poorly studied. We sought to explore the relation between CVRF and the clinical characteristics of patients with HCM enrolled in the EURObservational Research Programme (EORP) Cardiomyopathy registry. Methods and results: 1739 patients with HCM were studied. The relation between hypertension (HT), di...
Optical coherence tomography in coronary atherosclerosis assessment and interve...
Araki, Makoto; Park, Seung-Jung; Dauerman, Harold L.; Uemura, Shiro; Kim, Jung-Sun; Di Mario, Carlo; Johnson, Thomas W.; Guagliumi, GiulioSince optical coherence tomography (OCT) was first performed in humans two decades ago, this imaging modality has been widely adopted in research on coronary atherosclerosis and adopted clinically for the optimization of percutaneous coronary intervention. In the past 10 years, substantial advances have been made in the understanding of in vivo vascular biology using OCT. Identification by OCT of culprit plaque...