简介:Somediseasesotherthancardiacdiseasecanbe“prevented”,butthepurposeofthiscommunicationwrittenbyaclinicalcardiologist,notasapreventionspecialist,istofocusstrictlyoncardiovasculardisease.Thedefinitionofpreventivemedicineinsimplesttermsmeanskeepingyourpatienthealthy.Inadditiontomaintaininghealth,ofcourse,wewanttopreventthedisabilityassociatedwithcardiacdiseaseaswellasdeathintheyoungerperson.
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简介:Acutemyeloidleukemia(AML)isaclonaldisordercharacterizedbytheaccumulationofcomplexgenomicalterationsthatdefinethediseasepathophysiologyandoveralloutcome.RecentadvancesinsequencingtechnologieshavedescribedthemolecularlandscapeofAMLandidentifiedseveralsomaticalterationsthatimpactoverallsurvival.Despitealltheseadvancement,severalchallengesremainintranslatingthisinformationintoeffectivetherapy.HereinwewillreviewthemolecularlandscapeofAMLanddiscusstheimpactofthemostcommonsomaticmutationsondiseasebiologyandoutcome.
简介:Substratecharacterizationisthemainstayofablationforventriculartachycardia(VT).Althoughtheuseofelectroanatomicvoltagemapping(EAVM)intheelectrophysiology(EP)laboratoryhasenabledreal-timeapproximationofmyocardialscar,ithaslimitations.Thisisrelatedtothesubjectiveandtediousnatureofvoltagemappingandthechallengesofdefiningthetransmuralityofscar.Variousnoninvasivemethodsofscarassessmenthaveemerged,withmagneticresonanceimaging(MRI)beingthemostaccurate.IntegratedMRIandelectroanatomicvoltagemappingstudiesdemonstrategoodcorrelation.Nonetheless,MRIhasadvantages.Theseinclude(1)preprocedureidentificationofepicardialandintramuralscar,(2)assessmentofablativelesionformationafterunsuccessfulablations,(3)identifi-cationofheterogeneousregionsofscar,wherecriticalconductingchannelsarelikelytooccur,and(4)predictivevalueintheassessmentofsuddencardiacdeath(SCD).Integrationofscarimaginginventriculartachycardiaablationandriskstratificationhasgreatpotentialtoadvancethepracticeofarrhythmiamanagement.