Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease

OCT 10, 2026 · JOURNAL ARTICLE

Cardiometabolic Substrate Modification in Atrial Fibrillation: Obesity and Epicardial Adipose Tissue in the Era of Incretin-Based Therapies and Catheter Ablation

Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is increasingly understood as the electrical expression of a systemic and atrial cardiometabolic disease rather than an isolated disorder of pulmonary-vein

OCT 8, 2026 · JOURNAL ARTICLE

From Pig Bite to Endocarditis: An Invasive LA-MRSA Infection

Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease

We describe a case of severe invasive infection caused by livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA, ST398 lineage) in a patient with occupational e

SEP 8, 2026 · JOURNAL ARTICLE

Development and Validation of a Thoracic Aortic Calcification-Based Nomogram for Early Myocardial Injury in Breast Cancer Patients

Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease

A retrospective nomogram development and validation study in a single centre with good discrimination metrics (AUROC 0.901) and internal validation, but based on a surrogate endpoint (elevated troponin) rather than hard clinical outcomes, limiting generalizability.

AUG 14, 2026 · JOURNAL ARTICLE

Acute ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Following Multimodality Cancer Therapy in a HER2-Positive Breast Cancer Patient: A Case Report

Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease

A single case report with no control group, describing a temporal association between cancer therapy and acute MI; raises a mechanistic hypothesis but provides no quantified risk or causal evidence.