Evaluation of Right Ventricular ...
Right ventricular (RV) function is a powerful prognostic factor in congestive heart failure and pulmonary hypertension, but assessing RV function is ...
Fatty Acid Imaging of the Heart
Imaging metabolic processes in the human heart yields valuable insights into the mechanisms contributing to myocardial pathology and allows assessme ...
Importance of Residual Myocardi ...
Recent randomized clinical trials support the strategy of ischemia-guided management for patients with stable ischemic heart disease. The applicatio ...
The Role of Cardiac MR in New-O ...
In patients with heart failure, cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) allows a multifaceted approach to cardiac evaluation by enabling an ...
The Heterogeneous Biomechanics ...
There are compelling reasons to develop a tissueengineered mitral valve, but this endeavor has not received the same attention as tissue engineering ...
Role of Coronary Artery Calcium ...
Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, and has traditionally been assessed through a patient’s cardiovascular risk profile ...
Heart Failure Pharmacogenetics: ...
Heart failure is an increasingly common disease associated with significant morbidity and mortality in the aging population. Recent advances in hear ...
Risk Scores for Predicting Outc ...
Risk scoring tools have been developed from clinical databases to predict expected patient mortality from cardiac surgical procedures. The risk algo ...
Who Benefits from Nodal Field I ...
Randomized clinical trials and meta-analyses have clearly demonstrated that radiation after definitive surgery can improve local-regional control an ...
Reoperative Sentinel Lymph Node ...
The role of sentinel lymph node biopsy for staging of primary breast cancer is well established. However, in cases of previous surgery to the breast ...
Cryoablation as a Replacement f ...
With improvements in technology, freezing malignant tissue (cryoablation) as an alternative to surgery has been used to treat cancers of the skin, p ...
How Can the AJCC Staging System ...
Although the current American Joint Commission on Cancer (AJCC) staging system is the most widely used classification scheme for the prognostication ...
Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy Afte ...
The timing of sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy in patients receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy remains a debated topic, despite increasing literature ...
Management of Aromatase Inhibit ...
With increased use of aromatase inhibitors (AIs) in the adjuvant and first-line metastatic settings for postmenopausal women with estrogen receptor ...
Breast Preservation in Patients ...
Mastectomy is the current standard of care following in-breast local recurrence of breast cancer previously treated with breast-conserving surgery a ...
Patient Selection and Technical ...
Skin-sparing (SSM) and nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM) have gained widespread popularity over the past few years. Breast reconstruction is facilitat ...
Metabolic Syndrome and Breast C ...
Obesity is one of the most important known preventable causes of cancer, accounting for up to 20% of cancer deaths in women. Obese women have increa ...
Pharmacodynamics of Overactive ...
Understanding the role of pharmacodynamics in determining a drug’s effect helps prescribing physicians choose the most appropriate agent and regimen ...
Bladder Neck Dysfunction in Spi ...
Spinal cord injury (SCI) impairs the voluntary and autonomic control of storage and emptying functions of the urinary bladder, leading to a marked r ...
New Insights into the Pathophys ...
Detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia (DSD) is a condition in which the urethral outlet actively contracts during a detrusor contraction. This is most ofte ...
Purinoceptors and Bladder Dysfu ...
Purinergic signaling is increasingly appreciated as an important contributor to the normal bladder functions of urine storage and voiding. The trans ...
Bladder Augmentation and the Ri ...
Augmentation cystoplasty is the gold standard for increasing bladder capacity and improving bladder compliance in patients with refractory neurogeni ...
Office-based Care of the Neurog ...
Bladder dysfunction is common in neurologic disease and may be associated with significant secondary morbidity and mortality. Evaluation of neurogen ...
What Is the Evidence for the Us ...
There is growing evidence to support the use of botulinum toxin (BTX) in idiopathic detrusor overactivity. However, BTX remains off label for this p ...
Conservative Management and Beh ...
Overactive bladder is a chronic condition that has significant effects on quality of life. Management of this condition often emphasizes the use of ...