Impact of SARS-Cov-2 infection in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: results of an international multicentre registry.

Aims: To describe the natural history of SARS-CoV-2 infection in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) compared with a control group and to identify predictors of adverse events.

Methods And Results: Three hundred and five patients [age 56.6 ± 16.

Validation of the usefulness of 2-dimensional strain parameters to exclude acute rejection after heart transplantation: a multicenter study.

Introduction And Objectives: Two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography has emerged as a promising alternative to endomyocardial biopsy to rule out acute cellular rejection after orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT) in single center studies. In an original cohort, 15.5% and 17% of cutoff points for left ventricular global longitudinal strain (LVGLS) and free-wall right ventricular longitudinal strain, respectively, achieved 100% negative predictive value to exclude moderate or severe acute cellular rejection (ACR ≥ 2R).

Abnormal exercise echocardiography plus abnormal E/e' ratio at exercise portends worse outcome in patients with dyspnea.

Background: The role of exercise echocardiography (ExE) for the assessment of patients with dyspnea is promising. We aimed to analyze the clinical characteristics and outcome of patients with this condition referred for ExE.

Methods: A total of 505 patients (66 ± 11 years, 57% women) referred for evaluation of dyspnea were considered.

Acute eosinophilic pneumonia as a complication of influenza A (H1N1) pulmonary infection.

Acute eosinophilic pneumonia (AEP) is a rare disease characterized by its acute onset and a clinical presentation simulating a bacterial pneumonia. Although it can be idiopathic, it has been described related to drugs, toxic agents and infections, mostly parasitic. We describe the case of influenza A (H1N1) severe pneumonia complicated by an acute eosinophilic pneumonia.