Scientific letters

• Shprintzen-Goldberg syndrome and aortic dilatation: apropos of 2 new cases

  Juan Pablo Trujillo-Quintero, Elisabeth Gabau Vila, José María Larrañaga Moreira, Anna Ruiz Nel·lo, Lorenzo Monserrat, Roberto Barriales-Villa

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2021;74:551-3

• Apical myectomy in patients with apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and advanced heart failure

  Alberto Forteza, Juan Esteban de Villareal, Carlos Esteban Martín, Susana Mingo, Jessica García-Suárez, Pablo García-Pavía

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2021;74:554-5

• Preparticipation screening in pediatric athletes. Should we be concerned about the PR interval?

  Jesús Velásquez-Rodríguez, Leonel Diaz-Gonzalez, Pedro L. Valenzuela, Vanesa Bruña, Araceli Boraita, Alejandro Lucia

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2021;74:556-8

• Middle cerebral artery stroke due to paradoxical embolism in a patient with COVID-19 pneumonia

  Laura Pons-Pellicé, Elena Camio-Visauta, Ivette Chocron-Da Prat, José Fernando Rodríguez-Palomares, Ferran Rosés Noguer, Miriam de Nadal

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2021;74:558-9

• Early and mid-term outcomes of mitral repair due to leaflet prolapse in a national referral center

  María Ascaso, Elena Sandoval, Eduard Quintana, Bàrbara Vidal, Manuel Castellà, Daniel Pereda

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2021;74:462-4

• Prognostic value of right ventricular function in light-chain cardiac amyloidosis treated with bortezomib

  Alejandro Durante-López, Vanessa Moñivas Palomero, Mario Torres Sanabria, Jorge Vázquez López-Ibor, Javier Segovia Cubero, Susana Mingo Santos

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2021;74:464-6

• Outpatient ablation for atrial fibrillation

  Javier Jiménez-Candil, Jendri Perez, Jesús Hernández, José Luis Moríñigo, Manuel Sánchez García, Pedro L. Sánchez

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2021;74:466-8

• Impact of the first wave of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on preferential/emergent pacemaker implantation rate. Spanish study

  Ricardo Salgado Aranda, Nicasio Pérez Castellano, Óscar Cano Pérez, Andrés Ignacio Bodegas Cañas, Manuel Frutos López, Julián Pérez-Villacastín Domínguez

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2021;74:469-72

• Surgical facemask: an ally of exercise stress echocardiography during the COVID-19 pandemic?

  Rubén Cano Carrizal, Carlos Casanova Rodríguez

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2021;74:472-4

• Decrease in the number of primary angioplasty procedures during the pandemic and its relationship with mortality from COVID-19. The role of competing risks

  Guillermo Aldama, Fernando Rebollal, Xacobe Flores, Pablo Piñón, Oriol Rodríguez-Leor, José Manuel Vázquez

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2021;74:474-6

• Diagnostic value of coronary flow reserve determined by echo dipyridamole stress in homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia

  Francesco Sbrana, Emilio M. Pasanisi, Beatrice Dal Pino, Federico Bigazzi, Tiziana Sampietro

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2021;74:347-9

• A new twist to HeartMate 3 low flow alarms

  Mercedes Rivas-Lasarte, Andrew Scatola, Daniel B. Sims, Stephen J. Forest, Daniel J. Goldstein, Ulrich P. Jorde

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2021;74:349-51

• TRICENTO transcatheter heart valve for severe tricuspid regurgitation. Initial experience and mid-term follow-up

  Ignacio Cruz-González, Rocío González-Ferreiro, Ignacio J. Amat-Santos, Fernando Carrasco-Chinchilla, Juan H. Alonso Briales, Rodrigo Estévez-Loureiro

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2021;74:351-4

• Time to climb 4 flights of stairs provides relevant information on exercise testing performance and results

  Jesus Peteiro, Alberto Bouzas-Mosquera

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2021;74:354-5

• Aortitis: a simulator of intramural aortic hematoma

  Carlos Ferrera, Isidre Vilacosta, Melchor Saiz-Pardo Sanz, Beatriz Cabeza, Aida Ortega, Luis Maroto-Castellanos

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2021;74:355-7

• Diagnostic accuracy of angiography-based quantitative flow ratio in patients with left main disease

  Ramón López-Palop, Pilar Carrillo, Gunnar Leithold, Araceli Frutos, Eduardo Pinar, Alfonso Freites

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2021;74:357-9

• Combined use of subcutaneous implantable defibrillator with endovenous left bundle branch pacing in a child with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

  Francesca Perin, Manuel Molina-Lerma, Juan Jiménez-Jáimez, María del Mar Rodríguez-Vázquez del Rey, Ángeles Ortega, Miguel Álvarez

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2021;74:265-7

• Prognostic value of indexed pulmonary artery diameter assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in patients with acute heart failure

  Julio Núñez, Héctor Merenciano-González, Enrique Santas, María Pilar López-Lereu, José Vicente Monmeneu, Ernesto Valero

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2021;74:267-9

• Valve-in-valve transcatheter aortic valve implantation for bioprosthetic aortic sutureless valve failure: a case series

  Victoria Vilalta, Xavier Carrillo, Eduard Fernández-Nofrerías, Marta González-Lopera, Josepa Mauri, Antoni Bayés-Genís

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2021;74:269-72

• Changes in the microbiological etiology of infective endocarditis in our region in the last 3 decades (1987-2019)

  Paula Anguita, Juan C. Castillo, José López-Aguilera, Manuela Herrera, Manuel Pan, Manuel Anguita

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2021;74:272-5