Primary Cardiac Lymphoma in a Patient With Well-Controlled Human Immunodeficiency Virus.

• Patients with well-controlled HIV are still at increased risk of PCL. • Multimodal imaging led to the diagnosis prior to histopathologic confirmation. • Surgical resection is indicated in the setting of hemodynamic compromise.

Differences in Social Hardships in Women and Men with Acute Myocardial Infarction: Impact on 30-Day Readmission.

Background: Studies have shown that women with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) have a higher prevalence of unfavorable social variables then men and have a worse outcome. Less is known regarding the impact of these social variables on 30-day readmission after AMI.

Materials And Methods: We analyzed adult patients with AMI enrolled in a Quality Improvement Program intended to improve the peri-discharge care of patients with an AMI, and decrease all-cause 30-day unplanned readmissions.

Unsupervised clustering for phenotypic stratification of clinical, demographic, and stress attributes of cardiac risk in patients with nonischemic exercise stress echocardiography.

Introduction And Aim: Patients undergoing exercise echocardiography with no evidence of myocardial ischemia are considered a low-risk group; however, this group is likely heterogeneous in terms of short-term adverse events and subsequent cardiac testing. We hypothesized that unsupervised cluster modeling using clinical and stress characteristics can detect heterogeneity in cardiovascular risk and need for subsequent cardiac testing among these patients.

Methods: We retrospectively studied 445 patients who had exercise echocardiography results negative for myocardial ischemia.