Hepatic failure in End-stage liver disease (ESLD) results in well acknowledged widespread multi-organ dysfunction: hepatic encephalopathy, hepatorenal syndrome (HRS), hepatopulmonary syndrome, muscle wasting, among others.
The risk of sudden cardiac death in patients with heart failure has declined over time thanks to the sequential introduction of new treatments.
Kawasaki disease (KD) is a form of idiopathic vasculitis that affects medium-sized arteries throughout the body, with onset usually in infancy at about 1 year of age.
Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) causes pulmonary hypertension and is signified by the presence of multiple organized occlusive thrombi in the pulmonary artery.
CVD is the commonest cause of death in transplant patients with a surviving graft, more so than infection or malignancy.
Acute myocarditis is correlated with cardiac arrhythmia in 25% of cases; ventricular tachycardia (VT) or ventricular fibrillation (VF) constitute a third of these arrhythmias.