Sudden cardiac arrest and death occur among competitive and recreational athletes across the entire spectrum of age, sex, and ...

Noninvasive liver fibrosis scores are associated with increased ... 2 Older adults, males, and individuals with diabetes or coronary heart disease were at especially high risk for heart failure.

Background: Lipid metabolic alterations are emerging as significant mechanisms in the prognosis of cardiac remodeling induced by hypertension and could impact the therapies for cardiac fibrosis. The ...

and a 1.8x1.5 cm echogenic mass on the posterior mitral annulus, concerning for possible fungal vegetation. Further multimodality imaging was pursued. Transesophageal echocardiogram confirmed the ...

The primary histology endpoint, for Cohort 1 only, is the proportion of patients experiencing ≥ 1-stage improvement in fibrosis and no worsening of steatohepatitis after 96 weeks of treatment.

Herniated nucleus pulposus (HNP), also referred to as a herniated disc, is a common spine pathology that occurs ... first herniates into tears in the annulus fibrosus. It may eventually break ...

Caseous Calcification of Mitral Annulus (CCMA) is a rare variant of MAC. This condition is benign and usually needs no treatment. This is a case report of a 67-year-old woman with non-specific ...

Cardiac fibrosis is a frequent comorbidity in many diseases, such as ischemic heart failure or diabetes mellitus, contributing to increased mortality. No drugs are approved for cardiac fibrosis ...

It consists of the nucleus pulposus and the annulus fibrosus. The nucleus pulposus in a younger individual is soft and similar to crab meat in texture. It is surrounded by the annulus fibrosus ...