Infective endocarditis (IE) is an infection caused by organisms that enter the bloodstream and that typically infect one or more of the cardiac valves, the endocardial surface of the heart, or an intracardiac device. Despite advances in medical and surgical…
Revascularization via coronary artery bypass surgery and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) remains the definitive therapy for patients with refractory ischemic heart disease, particularly when accompanied by left ventricular (LV) dysfunction. In particular, bypass surgery reduces mortality in patients with multivessel…
In 1953, Watson and Crick published their landmark paper on the molecular structure of nucleic acids and a particularly prescient comment was made: “It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible…