James B. Young

Mortality and Morbidity Reduction With Candesartan in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure and Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction

Background— Patients with symptomatic chronic heart failure (CHF) and reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) have a high risk of death and hospitalization for CHF det...

Usefulness of Tissue Doppler and Color M-Mode Indexes of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function in Predicting Outcomes in Systolic Left Ventricular Heart Failure (from the ADEPT Study)

Combined cardiac resynchronization and implantable cardioversion defibrillation in advanced chronic heart failure: the MIRACLE ICD Trial.

Cardiac resynchronization improved quality of life, functional status, and exercise capacity in patients with moderate to severe HF, a wide QRS interval, and life-threatening ar...

Contemporary Definitions and Classification of the Cardiomyopathies

Classifications of heart muscle diseases have proved to be exceedingly complex and in many respects contradictory. Indeed, the precise language used to describe these diseases i...