Cardiac conduction disorders can manifest in young adults in isolated forms, associated with myocardial diseases or as part of a multiorgan disorder. Underlying causes of cardiac conduction disorders ...

Approximately 30% of ischemic strokes occur after a previous stroke or transient ischemic attack. Arterial hypertension is one of the best established risk factors for first and recurrent stroke, both ...

The Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement recently proposed percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)‐specific process measures. However, information about hospital performance on these ...

Cerebral ischemic injury occurs when blood flow drops below a critical level, resulting in an energy failure. The progressive transformation of hypoperfused viable tissue, the ischemic penumbra, into ...

While mechanical thrombectomy (MT) is proven to be lifesaving and disability sparing, there remains a disparity in its access in low- to middle-income countries. We hypothesized that team-based MT ...

Covered stent implantation for treatment of coarctation of the aorta (CoA) is effective and can prevent aortic wall injury. Prospective studies with long-term follow-up, including imaging, are lacking ...

Early neurological status has been described as predictor of functional outcome in patients with anterior circulation stroke after mechanical thrombectomy. It remains unclear to what proportion the ...

Most studies on stroke have been designed to examine one deficit in isolation; yet, survivors often have multiple deficits in different domains. While the mechanisms underlying multiple-domain ...

The identification of a variant in the HDAC9 gene as a risk factor for large-artery atherosclerotic stroke, and subsequently coronary artery disease, has opened novel treatment pathways for stroke and ...

Methods and Results— Wild-type (WT)-Kv11.1 channels and 34 missense LQT2-Kv11.1 channels were expressed in HEK293 cells. With Western blot analyses, 28 LQT2-Kv11.1 channels had a trafficking-deficient ...

Cerebral aneurysms are common, but there is no blood test for their diagnosis. Cerebral aneurysms are diagnosed incidentally or upon rupture. Current diagnostic tools either are invasive or place a ...

For patients with acute ischemic stroke due to a large vessel occlusion admitted in primary stroke centers, helicopter transfer to comprehensive stroke centers is often used to expedite access to ...