Pulmonary right-to-left shunting can be encountered using transthoracic contrast
echocardiography (TTCE) with agitated saline. Diseases associated with pulmonary …

Background—Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction has a complex pathophysiology
and remains a therapeutic challenge. Elevated left atrial pressure, particularly during …

Methods. Patient selection. Patients with a PFO who had a paradoxical embolic event or
systemic desaturation and who underwent a percutaneous closure in our center between …

Objectives: The goal of this study was to compare survival between transcatheter mitral
valve (MV) repair using MitraClip system (Abbott Vascular, Santa Clara, California), MV …

Background Drug‐refractory atrial fibrillation (AF) increasingly is being treated with catheter
ablation. However, the long‐term success rate, expressed as freedom from AF, is< 50 …

Background In Fontan patients with atrial arrhythmias (AA), non-vitamin K antagonist oral
anticoagulants (NOACs) have a class III recommendation according to the Pediatric & …

The physiological changes during pregnancy predispose a woman for the development of
new-onset or recurrent arrhythmia. Supraventricular arrhythmia is the most common form of …

Background Transthoracic contrast echocardiography (TTCE) can detect pulmonary right-to-
left shunting (RLS) and is used to screen for pulmonary arteriovenous malformations …

Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs) are associated with severe neurological
complications in patients with hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT). The objective …

Background Although QRS duration> 180 ms has prognostic value in adults with tetralogy of
Fallot (TOF), its sensitivity to predict mortality is low. Fragmented QRS complexes, a simple …