Association of the atherogenic index of plasma and its integrative novel adiposity-based composites with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in individuals with cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome: novel adiposity-derived AIP indices provide modest incremental prognostic information

Cardiovasc Diabetol. 2026 Jun 29. doi: 10.1186/s12933-026-03277-y. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome is recognized as a progressive pathophysiological continuum linking metabolic dysfunction, dysfunctional adiposity, chronic kidney disease, and

S Sheng Wei

Prognostic impact of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography and cardiac magnetic resonance-proven cardiac involvement in pulmonary sarcoidosis: a single centre long-term cohort study

BMC Pulm Med. 2026 Jun 29. doi: 10.1186/s12890-026-04458-x. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Sarcoidosis is a systemic granulomatous disease, often affecting the lungs, with a generally favourable prognosis. However, some patients experience progressive disease, and cardiac involvement may

S Shuhei Yoshikawa

The COPD-augmented Râ‚‚CHAâ‚‚DSâ‚‚-VA score: development and internal assessment for predicting one-year outcomes after transcatheter aortic valve implantation

BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2026 Jun 27. doi: 10.1186/s12872-026-06158-0. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Existing CHAâ‚‚DSâ‚‚-VASc-based scores incompletely capture the prognostic impact of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and of graded renal dysfunction in patients undergoing transcat

F Faruk Boyaci

STING-associated vasculopathy with onset in infancy: a case report

Zhonghua Jie He He Hu Xi Za Zhi. 2026 Jul 12;49(7):776-779. doi: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112147-20260505-00254.ABSTRACTSTING-associated vasculopathy with onset in infancy (SAVI) is an autoinflammatory disease caused by mutations in TMEM173 gene encoding STING (stimulator of interferon genes). It typically p

C C Z Ye

Diffuse bilateral pulmonary infiltrates with multiorgan involvement

Zhonghua Jie He He Hu Xi Za Zhi. 2026 Jul 12;49(7):767-771. doi: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112147-20251104-00680.ABSTRACTThis article reports the management of a female patient who initially presented at onset with severe pneumonia and profound anaemia. The patient was critically ill and deteriorated rapidly,

Y Y Jiao

Dyspnea, pulmonary mosaic sign and pulmonary hypertension

Zhonghua Jie He He Hu Xi Za Zhi. 2026 Jul 12;49(7):762-767. doi: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112147-20251023-00659.ABSTRACTThis case report presents a young female patient whose chief complaint was exertional dyspnea. Right heart catheterization confirmed severe pulmonary hypertension. Concurrently, chest CT sh

X X H Jiang

Late diagnosis of late onset Fabry disease

BMJ Case Rep. 2026 Jun 29;19(6):e272375. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2026-272375.ABSTRACTA male in his 50s initially presented with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) identified on transthoracic echocardiogram. He was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy without any further investigations. He later prese

T Timothy G Scully

Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol management and goal attainment at 1 year in patients with diabetes, pre-diabetes and normoglycaemia: results from the European, prospective, observational SANTORINI study

BMJ Open. 2026 Jun 29;16(6):e108737. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-108737.ABSTRACTOBJECTIVE: To assess changes in lipid-lowering therapy (LLT) use and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) goal attainment through 1-year follow-up in patients stratified by diabetes status in SANTORINI (Treatment of

H Hermann Toplak