Takotsubo syndrome is an acute cardiac syndrome first described in 1990 and characterized
by transient left ventricular dysfunction affecting more than one coronary artery territory, often …

Stress cardiomyopathy, also referred to as Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, is an increasingly
recognized clinical syndrome characterized by acute reversible apical ventricular …

Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) accounts for between 1 and 4% of cases presenting clinically as
an acute coronary syndrome. It typically presents as a transient cardiac phenotype of left …

Sex differences in the onset and manifestation of cardiovascular diseases are well known,
yet the mechanism behind this discrepancy remains obscure. Estrogen and its …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one cause of morbidity and mortality in men
and women worldwide. According to the WHO, by 2015, almost 20 million people will die …

Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is a severe but reversible acute heart failure syndrome that
occurs following high catecholaminergic stress. TTS patients are similar to those with acute …

Severe pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is characterized by clustered proliferation of
endothelial cells (ECs) in the lumina of small size pulmonary arteries resulting in concentric …

Background The hydroxylated derivatives of cholesterol, such as the oxysterols, play
important roles in lipid metabolism. In particular, 25-hydroxycholesterol (25HC) has been …

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) represents the most common primary liver cancer and one
of the most fatal human cancers. Besides alcoholic liver disease as well as genetic and …

Growing evidences support that androgen displays beneficial effects on cardiovascular
functions although the mechanism of androgen actions remains to be elucidated …