Vol 16, No 3 (June 18, 2026): Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy

Editorial Commentary

Device innovation or systemic risk management?—rethinking priorities in diabetic percutaneous coronary intervention
Ricardo Ortiz-Lozada, Pablo Salinas
Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy  
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Original Article

Aortic remodeling after zone 0 simplified delivery frozen elephant trunk (SD-FET) technique in acute aortic dissection: one-year clinical and morphological results in a single centre
Antoine Buschiazzo, Guillaume Guimbretiere, Tom Le Corvec, Beatrice Guyomarch, Karim Lakhal, Thomas Senage, Jean Christian Roussel, Blandine Maurel
Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy  
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Association analysis of metabolic score for visceral fat with cardiovascular disease: a prospective cohort study based on the China health and retirement longitudinal study
Linhua Feng, Hongbo Zhou, Bingjie Song, Xudan Ma, Huajun Wang
Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy  
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Beyond borderline physiology: determinants of treatment choice and phenotypes of outcome in QFR grey-zone lesions
Abdulrahman AlQazzaz, Yanfeng Lu, Jasmine Yimeng Bao, Gary S. Mintz, Jiahao Feng, Yong Zhang, Shanshan Gao, Qiang Song, Feifei Ning, Hytham H. Al-Samawi, Mohsen Al-Manj, Mohammed Al-Asadi, Xin Huang, Ning Guo
Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy  
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Clinical predictors and prognostic implications of HFpEF following STEMI based on HFA-PEFF score: a multicenter cohort analysis
Yun-Ho Cho, Jeong Yoon Jang, Jae Myoung Lee, Yujin Shin, Gain Yu, Jae Seok Bae, Choong Hwan Kwak, Yong-Lee Kim, Hangyul Kim, Min Gyu Kang, Kye-Hwan Kim, Jeong Rang Park, Jin-Yong Hwang, Jong-Hwa Ahn
Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy  
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Ginsenoside Rb2 alleviates myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury through IKKα lactylation regulation of macrophage polarization
Peng An, Meiqi Zhang, Mengshi Cheng, Weihua Wu, Wei Zhang, Zhenfei Yu, Rui Liu
Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy  
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Quantitative assessment and clinical value of right-to-left shunt in patent foramen ovale using three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography combined with right-heart contrast: a prospective study
Xueqin Gong, Chunyan Li, Guangliang Yang
Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy  
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Drug-coated balloons (DCB) for symptomatic intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Chien-Hung Chang, Ching-Chang Chen, Chun-Ting Chen, Mun-Chun Yeap, Shuo-Chi Chien, Yi-Ming Wu, Zhuo-Hao Liu
Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy  
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Mid-term outcomes of using drug-coated balloon angioplasty for the treatment of large vessel de novo coronary lesions: comparison of large and small vessels
Wenjie Wang, Zhonghua Sun, Yong Zeng, Xianpeng Yu
Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy  
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Plasma alarmin S100A8/A9 serves as a potential biomarker of major adverse cardiovascular events after acute myocardial infarction
Jingjiang Pi, Liang Geng, Chenghui Fan, Jing Xu, Xingxu Wang, Qi Zhang, Wei Wei
Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy  
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Association of endothelial glycocalyx degradation with post-PCI slow flow phenomenon in STEMI patients: a prospective observational study
Yufei Niu, Han Zhu, Yunong Zhao, Paijiao Zhang, Chunrong Jin
Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy  
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Prediction of long-term survival in patients with concomitant pulmonary hypertension and its subtypes after successful transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral valve repair
Felix Ausbuettel, Fares Kano, Nikolaos Patsalis, Christin Fichera, Dimitar Divchev, Carlo-Federico Fichera
Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy  
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Apelin-13 attenuates doxorubicin-induced myocardial injury via the PI3K/AKT and ERK/MAPK signaling pathways
Li-Sha Guo, Li Li, Qing-Hua Han
Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy  
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Review Article

Diagnostic, cardiac imaging, and management considerations in fungal infective endocarditis: a contemporary narrative review
Jan K. Kalinski, Bo Xu
Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy  
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Coronary microvascular dysfunction: a narrative review
Joseph M. O’Brien, Thomas J. Ford, Andy Yong, Vishal Goel, Jon Spiro, Peter J. Psaltis, Adam J. Brown, Derek P. Chew, Dennis T. L. Wong
Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy  
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Pre-hospital and emergency department point-of-care ultrasound in cardiovascular emergencies: a scoping review
Matti Jubouri, Rohan Chikhal, Fatima Kayali, Luca Tin Yau Cheung, Mohamed Refaie, Wael I. Awad, Ian M. Williams, Damian M. Bailey, Mohamad Bashir
Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy  
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Brief Report

Differences in coronary disease severity at time of acute coronary syndrome between Middle East and North America
Firas J. Al Badarin, Ahmad Edris, Shahrukh Hashmani, Manpreet Kaur, Shashank Shekhar, Oshin Kanwar, Samir Kapadia, Emin Murat Tuzcu
Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy  
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Case Report

Blood flow patterns in patients with bicuspid aortic valve undergoing different type of aortic valve replacement-computational fluid dynamics analyses and case reports
Kang An, Kun Zhu, Sheng Liu
Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy  
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Letter to the Editor

Mitral regurgitation and atrial fibrillation recurrence in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: association or modifiable substrate?
Teruhiko Imamura
Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy  
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Are elevated post-transcatheter aortic valve replacement gradients in obese patients pathological or flow-mediated?
Teruhiko Imamura
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