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Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) in some cases may predispose to life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias. This study was aimed to evaluate determinants of arrhythmic MVP (AMVP) in a large population and to identify variables associated with sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) or sudden cardiac death (SCD).

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) confers high morbidity and mortality, particularly in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc), where right ventricular (RV) adaptation to pulmonary artery (PA) afterload is a key determinant of outcome. While several clinical risk scores aid in prognostication, their performance in SSc-PAH is unclear. We evaluated the association of established PAH risk scores […]

The simultaneous impact of breast cancer therapy on the heart beyond the left ventricle (LV) and its prognostic implications are not understood. Our objective was to determine how breast cancer therapy affects all four cardiac chambers; whether patient clusters based on similarities in changes in multi-chamber measures have different prognosis; and how these patient clusters could be […]