M Kamalesh

..We report a case of native aortic valve endocarditis due to S capitis in an elderly diabetic that had a fatal outcome despite appropriate therapy with antibiotics. A review the literature is also presented...

..We report on a subject who had rapid formation of a fresh, mobile thrombus in the LAA despite unsuccessful cardioversion and therapeutic anticoagulation...

..Diabetic patients have increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. We compared the long-term prognostic value of a negative, nonischemic stress echocardiogram in patients with and without diabetes...

..Treatment of asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction and management of CHF has been evolving over last few years with major clinical trials advancing our knowledge. This review highlights some of the new developments in this field...

..Components of MS also cause CKD. The incremental effect of CKD on CAD prevalence in MS patients referred for stress imaging studies is unknown...

..Sex differences were evaluated in postmyocardial infarction (MI) mortality among veterans (who are predominantly male) to determine whether evaluation and treatment in Veterans Affairs hospitals amplifies sex differences in outcome...

..Recent data on stroke mortality in diabetics in the United States is lacking. We investigated trends in diabetes prevalence and stroke morality among diabetics in a large veteran cohort...

..Previous studies showing that M-mode SRSE may be an accurate method for detection of coronary artery disease suggest that this technique may be useful for risk stratification...

..Diabetes prevalence is increasing worldwide with prevalence of diabetes among patients with CHF increasing at an even faster pace...

..The clinical significance of low-dose SWMA is unknown...

..We hypothesized that having access to VA care would ameliorate the excess stroke mortality rates in African-Americans (AA) reported in non-VA studies...

..In conclusion, currently available data suggest that the prognostic value of stress imaging studies in subjects with diabetes differs from those without diabetes and should be interpreted as such...

..While advances in ultrasound techniques may improve our ability to detect coronary artery disease, it remains to be seen whether this will have an impact on prognostication...

..The results of our study suggest that high-dose simvastatin may be required to reduce excess events in very high-risk cohorts with metabolic syndrome...

..Subjects with erectile dysfunction share common risk factors as those for coronary artery disease. However, there are no data on the role of stress echocardiography in assessing the prognosis of patients with erectile dysfunction...

..We evaluated the effect of diabetes status on racial differences in post-MI mortality and morbidity for a 7-year period, from 1990 through 1997...

..Diabetes prevalence is increasing in the population, both in the young and the elderly. We assessed the impact of increasing prevalence of diabetes on admissions for acute myocardial infarctions (MI) from 1990 through 1997...

..We evaluated trends in post-myocardial infarction mortality and morbidity in patients with and without diabetes over a 7-year period from 1990 through 1997, when substantial changes occurred in the management of coronary disease...

..To further understand the increasing prevalence of heart failure, we compared trends in the prevalence of diabetes among individuals with diagnosed heart failure versus those in the general population...

..Prognosis of patients with heart failure (HF) has improved in recent years due to advances in therapy. Whether this is also true for diabetic subjects with HF in clinical practice has not been studied in a prospective manner...