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    Malignant ventricular arrhythmias (VAs), such as ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation, are the cause of approximately half a million deaths per year in the United States, which is a common lethal event in heart disease, such as hypertension, catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, takotsubo cardiomyopathy, long-QT syndrome, and progressing into advanced heart failure. A common characteristic of these heart diseases, and the subsequent development of VAs, is the overactivation of the sympathetic nervous system. Current treatments for VAs in these heart diseases, such as β-adrenergic receptor blockers and cardiac sympathetic ablation, aim at inhibiting cardiac sympathetic overactivation. However, these treatments do not translate into becoming efficacious as long-term suppressors of ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation events. As a key regulatory component in the heart, cardiac postganglionic sympathetic neurons residing in the stellate ganglia

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    Background: The Myocardial Ischemia and Transfusion (MINT) Trial (N=3504) randomized patients with acute MI and a hemoglobin ≤ 10 g/dL to liberal (maintain Hgb ≥ 10 g/dL) or restrictive (maintain Hgb ≥ 8 g/dL) red blood cell transfusion. The results suggested a benefit on 30-day death or MI with a liberal transfusion strategy. The effect of transfusion in acute MI patients undergoing revascularization is unclear. Methods: In this pre-specified analysis of the MINT trial, patients who underwent revascularization (N=1002) before randomization but during index hospitalization were compared with those who did not (N=2442). The primary outcome was 30-day death or MI; secondary outcomes included 30-day death, recurrent MI, the composite of death, recurrent MI, ischemia driven unscheduled revascularization, or readmission for ischemic cardiac diagnosis, heart failure, and cardiac death. Multivariable log binomial regression was used to determine the relative risks of the primary and secondary

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    Cindy St. Hilaire: Hi, welcome to Discover CircRes, the podcast of the American Heart Association’s Journal Circulation Research. I’m your host, Dr. Cindy St. Hilaire from the Vascular Medicine Institute at the University of Pittsburgh. And today I’m going to highlight articles from our March 28th and April 11th issues of Circ Res. I’m also going to have a chat with Dr. Magali Noval Rivas and Dr. Prasant Jena from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. And we’re going to chat about their study, Intestinal Microbiota

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    Background: Intramural site of origin is a major cause of ablation failure of ventricular arrhythmias and the optimal strategy is unclear. This study investigated the efficacy of a stepwise ablation approach for intramural outflow tract (OT) premature ventricular complexes (PVCs) guided by mapping of the septal coronary venous system. Methods: Consecutive patients with OT PVCs were included in which an intramural origin was confirmed by demonstration of earliest activation in a septal coronary vein. Radiofrequency ablation was performed from the closest endocardial site in the left (LVOT) and/or right ventricular OT (RVOT) independent of the local activation time. If there was no suppression by endocardial ablation, retrograde transvenous ethanol infusion with a single or double balloon technique was performed, targeting the earliest septal coronary vein. If venous anatomy was not suitable for ethanol ablation or if this failed, bipolar ablation was performed. Results: Sixty patients (

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    BACKGROUND: As a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy, preeclampsia is associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality later in life. Since early signs of myocardial affection could indicate a higher risk of future cardiovascular disease manifestations, we investigated whether women with prior preeclampsia have a higher prevalence of left ventricular hypertrophy compared with women from the general population and to what extent chronic hypertension affects any potential difference. METHODS: In a cohort study, women aged 40 to 55 years with prior preeclampsia were compared with age- and parity-matched women from the general population. They underwent a research cardiac computed tomography, and the primary outcome was left ventricular hypertrophy, defined as a left ventricular mass index >30 g/m2.7. RESULTS: In 679 women with prior preeclampsia and 672 controls (median age, 47 years), we found a higher prevalence of left ventricular hypertrophy (14.0% versus 6.4%) in the p

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