Hospital Outcomes of Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection With Concurrent Ventricular Arrhythmias.

Background: While patients with spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) occasionally present with concurrent ventricular arrhythmias (VA), the impact of VA on in-hospital outcomes in the United States (US) is not well-established. This study aims to analyze in-hospital outcomes of patients with SCAD and concurrent VA and to determine the factors associated with VA occurrence in this high-risk population in the US.

Methods: Using the Nationwide Readmissions Database, our study included patients age 18 years or older who had SCAD between 2017 and 2020.

Trends and Disparities in Cardiovascular Death in Sarcoidosis: A Population-Based Retrospective Study in the United States From 1999 to 2020.

Background: Despite significant cardiac involvement in sarcoidosis, real-world data on death due to cardiovascular disease among patients with sarcoidosis is not well established.

Methods And Results: We queried the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research database for data on patients with sarcoidosis aged ≥25 years from 1999 to 2020. Diseases of the circulatory system except ischemic heart disease were listed as the underlying cause of death, and sarcoidosis was stated as a contributing cause of death.

Severe Aortic Regurgitation From Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm Prolapse.

• Unruptured SVAs are usually asymptomatic but can present with significant HF. • A large SVA can compress or displace nearby structures and cause valvular abnormalities. • Echocardiography plays an important role in diagnosis and management of SVA.

Serial Studies in Subclinical Atherosclerosis During Menopausal Transition (from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation).

Cardiovascular disease risk increases in women after the menopausal transition; why this inflection point occurs remains uncertain. We aimed to characterize the influence of menopause on vascular aging by prospective assessment of change in indexes of subclinical atherosclerosis across the menopausal transition. We evaluated 411 healthy women from SWAN Heart, an ancillary study of SWAN (Study of Women's Health Across the Nation), for subclinical atherosclerosis at baseline and again after an average of 2.