Intracardiac Echocardiography for Procedural Guidance of Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion From Right Atrium: A Subgroup From a Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial With Two Intracardiac Echocardiography Imaging Systems

J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2026 Jul 8. doi: 10.1111/jce.70450. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Intracardiac echocardiography (ICE)-guided left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) from left atrium under local anesthesia showed potential advantages over transesophageal echocardiography (TOE)

B Bijun Huang

Clinicopathologic characterization of plasma cell neoplasms with IGH::CCND3

Am J Clin Pathol. 2026 Jul 6;166(1):aqag080. doi: 10.1093/ajcp/aqag080.ABSTRACTOBJECTIVES: Plasma cell neoplasms (PCNs) harboring IGH::CCND3 (t(6;14)) are rare (<1% of PCNs). We sought to study these cases, as they have not been studied as a distinct entity, and their clinicopathologic features are

N Nandan Padmanabha

Frugal Innovations for Delivering Child Cardiac Care in India

NEJM Catal Innov Care Deliv. 2026 Jul;7(7):CAT250219. doi: 10.1056/CAT.25.0219. Epub 2026 Jun 17.ABSTRACTCongenital heart defects (CHDs) affect approximately 240,000 newborns annually in India, where lifesaving surgical interventions are inaccessible and unaffordable for rural populations. The objec

W Wasan Kumar

Impact of the albumin-bilirubin score on short- and long-term mortality in native and prosthetic valve endocarditis ALBI score and mortality in native and prosthetic valve endocarditis

Acta Cardiol. 2026 Jul 8:1-11. doi: 10.1080/00015385.2026.2695357. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Infective endocarditis (IE), involving both native and prosthetic valves, remains a severe multisystem disease associated with high early and long-term mortality despite advances in antimicro

K Kadir Bıyıklı

Current outcomes of interventions to treat mixed arterial-venous ulcers

Phlebology. 2026 Jul 8:2683555261465585. doi: 10.1177/02683555261465585. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTObjectiveTo analyze outcomes of initial combined arterial and venous interventions (AVI) compared with isolated venous interventions (VI) alone in patients with mixed arterial-venous ulcer (MAVLU).

J Joseph P Hart