There is a scarcity of data on the prevalence and presentations of chronic venous disease (CVD) and chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) among Asians. Our study population comprised 7,212 subjects surveyed during the last National Nutrition and Health Survey (NNHeS) in 2008.

Eosinophilic myocarditis (EM) is a rare and often underrecognized disease (0.5% of unselected  autopsy series) leading to progressive myocardial damage, heart failure and death. Although parasitism  is a common cause of eosinophilia in developing countries, marked eosinophilia causing myocardial  infiltration and progressive heart failure is rare. The incidence of bronchial asthma (BA) leading to  EM is not known either. In this paper, we report a case of EM in a 39-year-old female with a history  of BA and ascariasis. 

Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a disorder with specific autoantibodies directed against the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR) in the neuromuscular junction. Despite the absence of AChR in the cardiac myocytes, cardiac involvement in MG, ranging from asymptomatic electrocardiogram (ECG) changes to fatal tachyarrhythmias, myocarditis, conduction blocks, heart failure and sudden cardiac death, has been documented in a few case reports. In this case series, we report two cases of MG in crisis presenting with deep diffuse persistent T-wave inversions as markers for possible MG-related cardiac disease. 

The objective of this is to determine the effectiveness and safety of oral and intravenous paracetamol compared to oral ibuprofen in the closure of a patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) in preterm and/or low birth weight  infants. 

The study aimed to describe the resting heart rate of the LIFECARE Philippine Cohort and its relation to socio-demographic factors and traditional cardiovascular risk factors. 

Chronic constrictive pericarditis (CCP) in developing countries is usually due to tuberculous  pericarditis. This study aims to determine the patient profile, clinical presentations, different  diagnostic tests, procedures and outcomes of CCP at the Philippine Heart Center (PHC) and the  Philippine General Hospital (PGH). 

The most common congenital heart disease (CHD) in childhood is ventricular septal defect (VSD), and the standard mode of treatment for defects that need correction is surgical closure under cardiopulmonary bypass. Advancements in technology are leading us into the era of percutaneous closure of VSDs. The current trend in the correction of CHD is to use techniques that would allow early hospital discharge and come with the least morbidity risk. The objective of this study was to compare the costs and the clinical outcomes of transcatheter device occlusion and surgical closure as modes of treatment for isolated VSD among pediatric patients of the Philippine Heart Center (PHC). 

This study aimed to determine the correlation of body mass index (BMI), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) with the severity of coronary artery disease (CAD) based on the Gensini scoring system on coronary angiography among Filipinos. 

Current guidelines recommend that primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in hemodynamically stable acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients should be limited to the culprit vessel despite significant stenosis in nonculprit coronary arteries. Recent studies and meta-analyses provide conflicting data.