US Cardiology ReviewPub Date : 2026-08-04eCollection Date: 2026-01-01DOI: 10.15420/usc.2025.12
Alison Ranum, Lara Sokoloff, James Schurr, Neel R Nabar, Yoav Karpenshif, Mauer Biscotti, Bénédicte Lefebvre, Joyce Wald, Kiran Sidhu
{"title":"A Rare Case of Burkitt's Lymphoma Presenting as Mixed Constrictive and Obstructive Cardiogenic Shock.","authors":"Alison Ranum, Lara Sokoloff, James Schurr, Neel R Nabar, Yoav Karpenshif, Mauer Biscotti, Bénédicte Lefebvre, Joyce Wald, Kiran Sidhu","doi":"10.15420/usc.2025.12","DOIUrl":"10.15420/usc.2025.12","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Burkitt's lymphoma is a highly aggressive B-cell lymphoma that rarely presents as an intracardiac mass or extracardiac mass involving the pericardium. We report a case of extracardiac Burkitt's lymphoma in a previously healthy 59-year-old man who presented with mixed constrictive and obstructive cardiogenic shock. Diagnosis was facilitated through multimodality imaging, including transthoracic echocardiography, cardiac MRI, chest CT, and invasive hemodynamic assessment using pulmonary artery catheters. These tools were instrumental in characterizing the constrictive and obstructive components of the patient's shock. A pulmonary artery catheter was also employed for ongoing hemodynamic monitoring during treatment with chemotherapy and tumor debulking agents. Remarkably, the patient showed rapid clinical improvement within 48 hours of initiating therapy, as evidenced by the hemodynamic monitoring trends.</p>","PeriodicalId":37809,"journal":{"name":"US Cardiology Review","volume":"20 ","pages":"e13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13495105/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148799050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
US Cardiology ReviewPub Date : 2026-07-15eCollection Date: 2026-01-01DOI: 10.15420/usc.2026.16
Salman S Allana, Ki Park
{"title":"'Protected Percutaneous Coronary Intervention': A High-risk Proposition.","authors":"Salman S Allana, Ki Park","doi":"10.15420/usc.2026.16","DOIUrl":"10.15420/usc.2026.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37809,"journal":{"name":"US Cardiology Review","volume":"20 ","pages":"e12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13425646/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148654605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
US Cardiology ReviewPub Date : 2026-06-22eCollection Date: 2026-01-01DOI: 10.15420/usc.2026.19
Leo Gozdecki, Mark N Belkin
{"title":"Picking Up the Tempo on Treatment of Combined Post- and Pre-capillary Pulmonary Hypertension: Viewpoint on the CADENCE Trial.","authors":"Leo Gozdecki, Mark N Belkin","doi":"10.15420/usc.2026.19","DOIUrl":"10.15420/usc.2026.19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37809,"journal":{"name":"US Cardiology Review","volume":"20 ","pages":"e11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13324218/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148377280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
US Cardiology ReviewPub Date : 2026-06-02eCollection Date: 2026-01-01DOI: 10.15420/usc.2026.12
Christina A Theochari, Christos Tountas, Nikolaos Tsiamis, Ioannis Mavrogenis, Anastasia Kitsiou
{"title":"Rare Case of Quadricuspid Pulmonary Valve in a Patient with Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries.","authors":"Christina A Theochari, Christos Tountas, Nikolaos Tsiamis, Ioannis Mavrogenis, Anastasia Kitsiou","doi":"10.15420/usc.2026.12","DOIUrl":"10.15420/usc.2026.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37809,"journal":{"name":"US Cardiology Review","volume":"20 ","pages":"e07"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13284784/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148309881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
US Cardiology ReviewPub Date : 2026-05-26eCollection Date: 2026-01-01DOI: 10.15420/usc.2024.65
Sukriti Banthiya, Ankit Agrawal, Devesh Rai, Medhat Chowdhury, Stephen Pan, Srihari S Naidu
{"title":"Diagnostic Approach to Left Ventricular Hypertrophy: A Review.","authors":"Sukriti Banthiya, Ankit Agrawal, Devesh Rai, Medhat Chowdhury, Stephen Pan, Srihari S Naidu","doi":"10.15420/usc.2024.65","DOIUrl":"10.15420/usc.2024.65","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is a not uncommon finding on cardiac imaging, seen in 10-20% of adults. LVH can represent a response to a physiological load on the heart (either by athletic training, hypertension, or structural heart issues) or it can represent a primary pathology (e.g. infiltrative disorders, including cardiac amyloidosis and sarcoidosis) or familial/genetic conditions (e.g. hypertrophic cardiomyopathy). LVH is an independent risk factor for adverse cardiovascular events, regardless of its etiology. In this review, we survey the etiologies, clinical approach, and use of multimodality imaging in those with LVH.</p>","PeriodicalId":37809,"journal":{"name":"US Cardiology Review","volume":"20 ","pages":"e06"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13284792/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148309828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
US Cardiology ReviewPub Date : 2026-05-15eCollection Date: 2026-01-01DOI: 10.15420/usc.2026.07
Amin Yehya, Melvin R Echols
{"title":"Heart Failure Wired from Shock to Devices and Home: A New Era of Delivery.","authors":"Amin Yehya, Melvin R Echols","doi":"10.15420/usc.2026.07","DOIUrl":"10.15420/usc.2026.07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37809,"journal":{"name":"US Cardiology Review","volume":"20 ","pages":"e05"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13284778/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148309892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
US Cardiology ReviewPub Date : 2026-03-06eCollection Date: 2026-01-01DOI: 10.15420/usc.2025.09
Vivek Bhat, Thomas Fretz, Hannah Shideler, Ankur Kalra
{"title":"High-grade Atrioventricular Block Due to Disseminated Lyme Disease Requiring Permanent Pacemaker Implantation.","authors":"Vivek Bhat, Thomas Fretz, Hannah Shideler, Ankur Kalra","doi":"10.15420/usc.2025.09","DOIUrl":"10.15420/usc.2025.09","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Lyme carditis is an uncommon manifestation of disseminated Lyme disease, most frequently presenting as fluctuating atrioventricular block (AVB). We report the case of a middle-aged man with history of frequent deer hunting in a Lyme-endemic region who presented with fatigue and malaise. Skin examination revealed erythema migrans, and the patient had electrocardiographic findings of atrial flutter with high-degree AVB, along with long sinus pauses on telemetry. IV ceftriaxone was started, and subsequent serologic testing confirmed <i>Borrelia burgdorferi</i> infection. Despite appropriate antibiotic therapy, AVB persisted, necessitating permanent pacemaker implantation. This case highlights the importance of early recognition of Lyme carditis, the need for continued cardiac monitoring, and the occasional need for permanent pacemaker implantation in some patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":37809,"journal":{"name":"US Cardiology Review","volume":"20 ","pages":"e03"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12997234/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147487883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}