Hal A. Skopicki, MD, PhD, is assistant professor of medicine

Articles by Hal A. Skopicki, MD, PhD, is assistant professor of medicine

The cost of failure

ByHal A. Skopicki, MD, PhD, is assistant professor of medicine,director, Heart Failure,Cardiomyopathy Program, Stony Brook University Health Sciences Center, Stony Brook, New York.

September 10th 2008

When considering the article by Goldberg and colleagues, it seems reasonable to request a change in the title to "Survival after the diagnosis of  heart failure."

Mechanistic learnings of takotsubo for make benefit glorious cardiomyopathy

ByHal A. Skopicki, MD, PhD, is assistant professor of medicine,director, Heart Failure,Cardiomyopathy Program, Stony Brook University Health Sciences Center, Stony Brook, New York.

September 10th 2008

Despite advances in echocardiography, magnetic resonance imaging, and the ability to perform an endomyocardial biopsy, the underlying etiology of nonischemic left ventricular (LV) dysfunction often eludes clinical detection.