Chester E. Clark

A Comparison of Rate Control and Rhythm Control in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

Physical Activity and Public Health

2014 ESC Guidelines on diagnosis and management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging

Ultrastructural features of degenerated cardiac muscle cells in patients with cardiac hypertrophy.

Abnormal mitral valve coaptation in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy: Proposed role in systolic anterior motion of mitral valve

Evaluation of left ventricular outflow tract gradient during treadmill exercise and in recovery period in orthostatic position, in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Best method in clinical practice and in research studies to determine left atrial size

Effectiveness of theophylline prophylaxis of renal impairment after coronary angiography in patients with chronic renal insufficiency

Relation of Electrocardiographic Patterns to Phenotypic Expression and Clinical Outcome in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Impact of Diabetes Mellitus on Percutaneous Revascularization (CAVEAT-I)

Regional Specificity of Brain Atrophy in Huntington's Disease

Noninvasive assessment of left ventricular diastolic function by pulsed doppler echocardiography in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Acute kidney injury

Limitations of transesophageal echocardiography in the risk assessment of patients before nonanticoagulated cardioversion from atrial fibrillation and flutter: An analysis of pooled trials

Relation between extent of left ventricular hypertrophy and occurrence of sudden cardiac death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction

Transesophageal echocardiographic evaluation of mitral regurgitation in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Contributions of eccentric left ventricular hypertrophy and related abnormalities of the mitral complex

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Detection of Myocardial Scarring in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Impact of Septal Myectomy on Left Atrial Volume and Left Ventricular Diastolic Filling Patterns: An Echocardiographic Study of Young Patients with Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Standing and Exercise Doppler Echocardiography in Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: The Range of Gradients with Upright Activity

Contractile protein mutations and heart disease

One- and two-dimensional echocardiography in bodybuilders using anabolic steroids

Abnormal papillary muscle morphology is independently associated with increased left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

The prognostic implications of further renal function deterioration within 48 h of interventional coronary procedures in patients with pre-existent chronic renal insufficiency

Biodegradable nanoparticles for drug and gene delivery to cells and tissue

Left Atrial Volume, Geometry, and Function in Systolic and Diastolic Heart Failure of Persons ≥65 Years of Age (The Cardiovascular Health Study)

Use of doping agents, particularly anabolic steroids, in sports and society

Efficacy of Implantable Cardioverter–Defibrillators for the Prevention of Sudden Death in Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Bivalirudin during Primary PCI in Acute Myocardial Infarction

A molecular basis for familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: A β cardiac myosin heavy chain gene missense mutation

Does impairment of energy metabolism result in excitotoxic neuronal death in neurodegenerative illnesses?

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in tuscany: Clinical course and outcome in an unselected regional population

Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure

Dynamic left ventricular outflow tract obstruction evoked by exercise echocardiography: prevalence and predictive factors in a prospective study

Validation of Clinical Classification Schemes for Predicting Stroke

What Is the Best Approach for the Assessment of Left Atrial Size? Comparison of Various Unidimensional and Two-dimensional Parameters with Three-dimensional Echocardiographically Determined Left Atrial Volume

Mapping a Gene for Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy to Chromosome 14q1

Pressure-independent enhancement of cardiac hypertrophy in natriuretic peptide receptor A–deficient mice

The Prevention of Radiocontrast-Agent–Induced Nephropathy by Hemofiltration

Mortality risk conferred by small elevations of creatine kinase-MB isoenzyme after percutaneous coronary intervention

Regional myocardial blood flow and metabolism at rest in mildly symptomatic patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Comparison of Echocardiographic Single-Plane versus Biplane Method in the Assessment of Left Atrial Volume and Validation by Real Time Three-Dimensional Echocardiography

Elderly patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: A subset with distinctive left ventricular morphology and progressive clinical course late in life

Relation between extent of left ventricular hypertrophy and age in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Prevalence of exercise-induced left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in symptomatic patients with non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Sudden Cardiac Death in Young Athletes

Clinical Course and Prognosis of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in an Outpatient Population

An echocardiographic study of the fluid machanics of obstruction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Mutations in the human Ca2+-sensing receptor gene cause familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia and neonatal severe hyperparathyroidism

A cohort study of childhood hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Outcome of Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and a Normal Electrocardiogram

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Relation between extent of cardiac muscle cell disorganization and left ventricular wall thickness in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Prevalence of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy on an electrocardiogram-based pre-participation screening programme in a young male South-East Asian population: results from the Singapore Armed Forces Electrocardiogram and Echocardiogram screening protocol

Relation between extent of left ventricular hypertrophy and diastolic filling abnormalities in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Atrial fibrillation and atrial enlargement in patients with mitral stenosis

Diabetes and Atherosclerosis

Timing of thromboembolic events after electical cardioversion of atrial fibrillation or flutter: a retrospective analysis

Are Transthoracic Echocardiographic Parameters Associated With Atrial Fibrillation Recurrence or Stroke?

Clinical and morphologic expression of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in patients ≥ 65 years of age

Diagnostic value of electrocardiography and echocardiography for familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in genotyped children

Effects of Multisite Biventricular Pacing in Patients with Heart Failure and Intraventricular Conduction Delay

Burden of valvular heart diseases: a population-based study

Guidelines for Percutaneous Coronary Interventions

Atrial fibrillation in hypertrophie cardiomyopathy: A longitudinal study

Correlation of postpercutaneous coronary intervention creatine kinase-MB and troponin I elevation in predicting mid-term mortality

factors predicting success rate and recurrence of atrial fibrillation after first electrical cardioversion in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation

Peri-procedural myocardial injury: 2005 update

Regulation of myocardial βARK1 expression in catecholamine-induced cardiac hypertrophy in transgenic mice overexpressing α1B-adrenergic receptors

Echocardiographic and electrocardiographic identification of those children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy who should be considered at high-risk of dying suddenly

Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy in pediatric patients: Results of surgical treatment

Myocarditis

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Prognostic Implications of Echocardiographically Determined Left Ventricular Mass in the Framingham Heart Study

Preclinical Diagnosis of Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy by Genetic Analysis of Blood Lymphocytes

Whole Brain Segmentation

Myocardial ischemia detected by thallium scintigraphy is frequently related to cardiac arrest and syncope in young patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Efficacy and safety of flecainide acetate in the maintenance of sinus rhythm after electrical cardioversion of chronic atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter

Antithrombotic Therapy in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Seven-transmembrane-spanning receptors and heart function

Effects of pretreatment with clopidogrel and aspirin followed by long-term therapy in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: the PCI-CURE study

Incidence, predictors, and prognostic implications of bleeding and blood transfusion following percutaneous coronary interventions

Clinical implications of the new definition of myocardial infarction

Prevalence of Diagnosed Atrial Fibrillation in Adults

Utility of metabolic exercise testing in distinguishing hypertrophic cardiomyopathy from physiologic left ventricular hypertrophy in athletes

A Calcineurin-Dependent Transcriptional Pathway for Cardiac Hypertrophy

Screening for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Young Athletes

Spontaneous Initiation of Atrial Fibrillation by Ectopic Beats Originating in the Pulmonary Veins

Relation of electrocardiographic abnormalities to evolving left ventricular hypertrophy in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy during childhood

Mechanisms of thrombogenesis in atrial fibrillation: Virchow's triad revisited

Relation between myocyte disarray and outcome in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Accuracy of nondirected and directed M-mode echocardiography as an estimate of left atrial size

Rapid Measurement of B-Type Natriuretic Peptide in the Emergency Diagnosis of Heart Failure

Sodium Bicarbonate Plus N-Acetylcysteine Prophylaxis

Echocardiographic and Doppler Assessment of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Prasugrel versus Clopidogrel in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes

Effect of Theophylline on Contrast Material–induced Nephropathy in Patients with Chronic Renal Insufficiency: Controlled, Randomized, Double-blinded Study

Development and determinants of dynamic obstruction to left ventricular outflow in young patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Incidence of Ischemic Strokes in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy is Markedly Increased if Complicated by Atrial Fibrillation

Body surface distribution of abnormally low QRST areas in patients with left ventricular hypertrophy. An index of repolarization abnormalities.

Oxidative damage and mitochondrial decay in aging.

Electrophysiologic abnormalities in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. A consecutive analysis in 155 patients.

Abnormal left ventricular intracavitary flow acceleration in patients undergoing aortic valve replacement for aortic stenosis. A marker for high postoperative morbidity and mortality.

Wall stress and patterns of hypertrophy in the human left ventricle.

Atrial fibrillation following coronary artery bypass surgery

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The importance of the site and the extent of hypertrophy. A review

Incidence, Predictors, and Outcome of Thrombosis After Successful Implantation of Drug-Eluting Stents

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: an important cause of sudden death.

Diversity of structural mitral valve alterations in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Patterns of inheritance in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Assessment by m-mode and two-dimensional echocardiography

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and transmural myocardial infarction without significant atherosclerosis of the extramural coronary arteries

Idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis in the young

Measuring the thickness of the human cerebral cortex from magnetic resonance images

Prognostic significance of 24 hour ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: A prospective study

Verapamil therapy: A new approach to the pharmacologic treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: III. Effects of long-term administration

Sudden death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a profile of 78 patients.

Recommendations concerning use of echocardiography in hypertension and general population research.

Prevalence and significance of an abnormal S-T segment response to exercise in a young athletic population

Atrial Fibrillation Begets Atrial Fibrillation

Effect of Vasodilator Therapy on Mortality in Chronic Congestive Heart Failure

Baseline troponin level: key to understanding the importance of post-PCI troponin elevations

Antithrombotic Therapy in Atrial Fibrillation

Recent Advances in the Molecular Genetics of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

A locus for familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is closely linked to the cardiac myosin heavy chain genes, CRI-L436, and CRI-L329 on chromosome 14 at q11-q12.

Long-term Clinical and Echocardiographic Follow-up After Surgical Correction of Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy With Extended Myectomy and Reconstruction of the Subvalvular Mitral Apparatus

Recognition of regional hypertrophy in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy using thallium-201 emission-computed tomography: Comparison with two-dimensional echocardiography

Functional abnormalities in isolated left bundle branch block. The effect of interventricular asynchrony.

ACC/AHA 2006 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease

Death Following Creatine Kinase-MB Elevation After Coronary Intervention

Modified Maze Procedure for Patients With Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Simultaneous Open Heart Surgery

Observations on the optimum time for operative intervention for aortic regurgitation. II. Serial echocardiographic evaluation of asymptomatic patients.

Long-term therapy of heart failure with prazosin: A randomized double blind trial

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in infants: clinical features and natural history.

Prevalence of arrhythmias during 24-hour electrocardiographic monitoring and exercise testing in patients with obstructive and nonobstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Effects of nifedipine and propranolol combined therapy in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Worldwide Epidemiology of Atrial Fibrillation

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with unusual locations of left ventricular hypertrophy undetectable by M-mode echocardiography. Identification by wide-angle two-dimensional echocardiography.

Prevalence of atrial fibrillation in elderly subjects (the Cardiovascular Health Study)

Distribution of left ventricular hypertrophy in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: A two-dimensional echocardiographic study

Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Dynamics of left ventricular ejection in obstructive and nonobstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Mechanism of Benefit of Negative Inotropes in Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Atrial Remodeling and Atrial Fibrillation

Secondary prevention in non-rheumatic atrial fibrillation after transient ischaemic attack or minor stroke

Sarcomere Protein Gene Mutations in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy of the Elderly

2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

Molecular Basis of Familial Cardiomyopathies

Development and Progression of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Children with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Echocardiographic determination of left ventricular mass in man. Anatomic validation of the method.

Independent risk factors for atrial fibrillation in a population-based cohort. The Framingham Heart Study

Controlled Ring-Opening Polymerization of Lactide and Glycolide

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Clinical End Points in Coronary Stent Trials

Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Clinical and Two-Dimensional Echocardiographic Assessment

Absence of progression of left ventricular hypertrophy in adult patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Amiodarone for maintenance of sinus rhythm after conversion of atrial fibrillation in the setting of a dilated left atrium

Prognosis in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Considerations in the use of echocardiography in epidemiology. The Framingham Study.

Intramural (“small vessel”) coronary artery disease in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

The management of congestive heart failure

Atrial size, atrial fibrillation, and stroke

Epidemiology of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy–Related Death

Verapamil: its potential for causing serious complications in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Effect of Single-Drug Therapy on Reduction of Left Atrial Size in Mild to Moderate Hypertension

Dimensions and volumes of left atrium and ventricle determined by single beam echocardiography.

Interventricular septal configuration as a predictor of right ventricular systolic hypertension in children: a cross-sectional echocardiographic study.

Stimulated Emission Depletion Live-Cell Super-Resolution Imaging Shows Proliferative Remodeling of T-Tubule Membrane Structures After Myocardial Infarction

Systolic anterior motion of the posterior mitral leaflet: a previously unrecognized cause of dynamic subaortic obstruction in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Hypertrophic nonobstructive cardiomyopathy with giant negative T waves (apical hypertrophy): Ventriculographic and echocardiographic features in 30 patients

Diastolic abnormalities in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: relation to magnitude of left ventricular hypertrophy.

Solitary Papillary Muscle Hypertrophy as a Possible Form of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Patterns and significance of distribution of left ventricular hypertrophy in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Prognosis of asymptomatic patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and nonsustained ventricular tachycardia.

Operative treatment in hypertrophic subaortic stenosis. Techniques, and the results of pre and postoperative assessments in 83 patients.

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with extreme increase in left ventricular wall thickness: Functional and morphologic features and clinical significance

ACC/AHA Guidelines for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (Revision of the 1993 PTCA Guidelines)—Executive Summary

Diagnostic Value of Electrocardiography and Echocardiography for Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in a Genotyped Adult Population

Muscular subaortic stenosis: the quantitative relationship between systolic anterior motion and the pressure gradient.

Weekend versus Weekday Admission and Mortality from Myocardial Infarction

Left Atrial Volume and Geometry in Healthy Aging

The Effect of Low-Dose Warfarin on the Risk of Stroke in Patients with Nonrheumatic Atrial Fibrillation

Morphological determinants of echocardiographic patterns of mitral valve systolic anterior motion in obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Severe functional limitation in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and only mild localized left ventricular hypertrophy

Heterogeneous morphologic expression of genetically transmitted hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Two-dimensional echocardiographic analysis.

In-Hospital Cost of Percutaneous Coronary Revascularization

Effects of dopamine and aminophylline on contrast-induced acute renal failure after coronary angioplasty in patients with preexisting renal insufficiency

Prognostic value of cardiac troponin-I levels following catheter-based coronary interventions

Asymmetric Septal Hypertrophy

Vascular complications after balloon and new device angioplasty.

Relation between echocardiographically determined left atrial size and atrial fibrillation.

Asymmetric Septal Hypertrophy (ASH) in Infancy

Determinants of ventricular septal motion. Influence of relative right and left ventricular size.

Asymetric septal hypertrophy in childhood.

The combined use of positron emission tomography and DNA polymorphisms for preclinical detection of Huntington's disease

Mechanism of left ventricular outflow obstruction in patients with obstructive asymmetric septal hypertrophy (Idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis)

Congenital heart malformations associated with disproportionate ventricular septal thickening.

Familial Prevalence and Genetic Transmission of Idiopathic Hypertrophic Subaortic Stenosis

Idiopathic Left Ventricular Hypertrophy

Differences in Distribution of Myocardial Abnormalities in Patients with Obstructive and Nonobstructive Asymmetric Septal Hypertrophy (ASH)

Prevalence and characteristics of disproportionate ventricular septal thickening in patients with coronary artery disease.

Asymmetric Septal Hypertrophy (ASH): The Unifying Link in the IHSS Disease Spectrum

Electrocardiographic findings in patients with obstructive and nonobstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Prevalence and characteristics of disproportionate ventricular septal thickening in patients with acquired or congenital heart diseases: echocardiographic and morphologic findings.

Echocardiographic Measurement of the Left Ventricular Outflow Gradient in Idiopathic Hypertrophic Subaortic Stenosis

Differences in Distribution of Myocardial Abnormalities in Patients with Obstructive and Nonobstructive Asymmetric Septal Hypertrophy (ASH)