Heart failure is a leading cause of mortality and hospitalization worldwide. Cardiac fibrosis,
resulting from the excessive deposition of collagen fibers, is a common feature across the …

Cardiac arrhythmia is one of the most prevalent cardiovascular diseases worldwide, which
can occur alone or be triggered by other diseases, and it can be fatal in severe cases …

Background Scar burden with late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) cardiac MRI (CMR)
predicts arrhythmic events in patients with postinfarction in single-center studies. However …

Exosomes are a pluripotent group of extracellular nanovesicles secreted by all cells that
mediate intercellular communications. The effective information within exosomes is primarily …

Cardiac fibrosis is characterized by the deposition of extracellular matrix proteins in the
spaces between cardiomyocytes following both acute and chronic tissue damage events …

More than 40 years after the first implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implantation,
sudden cardiac death (SCD) still accounts for more than five million deaths worldwide every …

Aims At least 50% of deaths due to coronary artery disease (CAD) are sudden cardiac
deaths (SCDs), but the role of acute plaque complications on the incidence of sudden death …

Background Increasing evidence supports a link between myocardial fibrosis (MF) and
ventricular arrhythmias. Objectives The purpose of this study was to determine whether …

Prevention of premature death in patients with chronic epilepsy remains a major challenge.
Multiple pathophysiologic factors have been implicated, with intense investigation of …

Sudden cardiac arrest due to lethal ventricular arrhythmias is a major cause of mortality
worldwide and results in more years of potential life lost than any individual cancer. Most of …