Associations of CMR-based pulse wave velocity and aortic distensibility with infrarenal ultrasound-based aortic parameters in the Hamburg City Health Study

• by Katharina Alina Riedl, Eleonora Di Carluccio, Gunnar Lund, Markus Huellebrand, Anja Hennemuth, Rickmer Braren, Paulus Kirchhof, Stefan Blankenberg, Lisa Tilemann, Andreas Ziegler, Christian- Alexander Behrendt, Kai Muellerleile, Tilo Kölbel

• September 21, 2026

Aortic Dissection at 25: Recognizing a Life-Threatening Emergency in a Young Athlete

An aortic dissection occurs when a tear develops in the inner layer of the aorta, the body’s largest artery. Blood can force its way between layers of the vessel wall, compromising circulation to vital organs or causing catastrophic internal bleeding.

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• September 22, 2026

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Correction: Bioinformatics analysis of ferroptosis-related hub genes and immunoinfiltration in myocardial ischemia/reperfusion following heart transplantation

• by Yuxi Zhang, Qiao Tang, Jiahui Cui, Yanan Li, Heng Xu, Zhen Qiu, Shaoqing Lei, Rui Xue, Qian Sun, Zhongyuan Xia

• September 21, 2026

Specific treatment of ATTR-CM in Germany—expert consensus of the German Society of Amyloid Diseases (DGAK) and German Cardiac Society (DGK)

• by Fabian aus dem Siepen, Teresa Trenkwalder, Birgit Aßmus, Ingrid Kindermann, Daniel Lavall, Sebastian Spethmann, Lars Michel, Timon Hansen, Sebastian Kruck, Christoph Rischpler, Fabian Knebel, Stéphanie K. Schwarting, Udo Bavendiek, Maria Papathanasiou, Ute Hegenbart, Ali Yilmaz, Katrin Hahn, Alexander Carpinteiro, Roman Pfister, Caroline Morbach

• September 22, 2026