The purpose of this study was to determine the prognostic value of late gadolinium enhancement seen on cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging in patients with nonischemic cardiomyopathy (NICMP). Patients with NICMP are at increased risk for cardiovascular events and death.

The existing data regarding the role of QRS duration (QRSd) change on cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) response show some inconsistent results. We conducted a meta-analysis of data obtained from observational studies to examine the impact of QRS change after CRT

New invasive technology looks very promising, as they allow you to discontinue the drug with serious side effects. Efficacy and safety procedures for the method have been studied in the pioneering research in terms of process engineering. The effects of renal denervation

The available data on melatonin production in acute coronary syndrome are known to be contradictory. Its role in the human body is not quite clear either. However, some of its properties have been convincingly proved. Melatonin has been shown to produce vivid effect on

Despite proven effectiveness of statin therapy the target values of low density lipoproteins (LDL-C) are often not achieved on the therapy, especially in high- and very high-risk patients. Patients with statin intolerance and patients with familial hypercholesterolemia are

The article presents experimental and pilot clinical studies of staphylokinase as the most fibrin-selective thrombolytic. It was shown a high efficacy and safety of bolus-infusion usage of staphylokinase compared to Actilyse® in patients with myocardial infarction with

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) refer to non-coronarogenic diseases and has a prevalence of 0.3-0.5 cases per 100 000 annually. Up to 60% of all HCM cases have autosomal dominant mode of inheritance and only a small part (less than 5%) have endocrine base. In the article

Two clinical examples of the rare form of the combination of Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome and atrial flutter are presented. Patients with previously diagnosed WPW syndrome delayed surgical treatment for a long time, due to rare and short arrhythmia paroxysms. The

A position agreement of the experts of Russian association of gerontologists and geriatricians, Gerontological society of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian medical society for arterial hypertensio n Task Force Members: Tkacheva O.N. (Chairperson), Runikhina N.K.,

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) - the disease which is characterized by a left ventricular dilatation with development of a systolic heart failure and isn't bound to coronary heart disease or valvular dysfunction. The risk of DCM development at the age of more senior than 40

Chronic heart failure (CHF) is one of the most severe and prognostically unfavorable complications of cardiovascular diseases. Over the past 30 years average duration of life for patients with such diagnosis has increased from 3.5 to 8 years (in comparison with the period