Background. Left ventricular aneurysm (LVA) in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDCM) is rarely reported, and the incidence, pathogenesis and clinical features of LVA in IDCM are poorly understood.Methods. The diagnosis of IDCM …

Myocarditis is an acute or chronic inflammatory disease of the myocardium which can be viral, postinfectious immune or primarily organ-specific autoimmune. Clinical manifestations of acute and chronic myocarditis are extremely varied, ranging from …

Somewhere between 1504 and 1508, Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) met a very old man in the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence, who told him he was a hundred years of age and did not feel, in Leonardo’s own words, ‘any bodily ailment other …