Congestive Heart Failure
Apr 19, 2021
This review summarizes the published literature referring to the use and validity of the biomarker soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) when used for the assessment of patients wit...
Apr 15, 2021
Clinical records of dogs with spontaneous degenerative mitral valve disease (DMVD) with clinical signs related to congestive heart failure (CHF) recruited during routine clinical practice between 2001...
Apr 08, 2021
Professional society guidelines are emerging for cardiovascular care in cancer patients. How effectively the cancer survivor population is screened and treated for cardiomyopathy in contemporary clini...
Apr 08, 2021
Myxomatous mitral valve disease (MMVD) is the most common cardiac disease in dogs. It varies from dogs without clinical signs to those developing left-sided congestive heart failure, leading to death....
Jan 04, 2021
To examine the association of a high C-reactive protein (CRP) level at discharge from an acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) hospitalisation with the 1-year clinical outcomes.A post-hoc subanalys...
Dec 24, 2020
The United States Food and Drug Administration is investigating possible diet-associated dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) in dogs and cats.To retrospectively review DCM cases for signalment, diet informat...
Nov 19, 2020
At least half of all heart failure (CHF) patients will have a comorbidity that could be undertreated, requires additional speciality input and/or polypharmacy. These patients are then at risk from iat...
Nov 19, 2020
Background Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a frequent cause of inpatient admissions in the United States. The purpose of this study was to analyze the racial and gender disparities that occur in CHF...
Nov 13, 2020
Cardiovascular (CV) risk factors are strongly and similarly associated with incident heart failure (HF) in both sexes, highlighting the similar importance of risk factor control in reducing HF risk, e...
Nov 12, 2020
The proportion of potentially preventable hospitalisations (PPH) which are actually preventable is unknown, and little is understood about the factors associated with individual preventable PPH. The D...
Oct 22, 2020
Aorto-left ventricular tunnel is a rare disease that can cause significant morbidity early in life due to volume overload and left ventricular failure. Surgical intervention is usually curative with m...
Oct 01, 2020
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has the characteristics of high transmission, diverse clinical manifestations, and a long incubation period. In addition to infecting the respiratory system, COVID-...
Sep 24, 2020
Health care-associated infections (HAIs) are preventable, harmful, and costly; however, few resources are dedicated to infection surveillance of nonsurgical procedures, particularly cardiovascular imp...
Aug 24, 2020
N-terminal pro B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) and cardiac troponin-I (cTnI) are biomarkers commonly evaluated in cats with suspected heart disease. Many cats with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (...
Aug 06, 2020
Discuss the literature and describe strategies to overcome barriers of inpatient initiation of sacubitril/valsartan in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). A PubMed, E...
Aug 03, 2020
Anthracyclines are key chemotherapeutic agents used in various adult and pediatric cancers, however, their clinical use is limited due to possible congestive heart failure (HF) caused by acute and irr...
Jul 23, 2020
Cancer survivors with prior chest radiation therapy (C-XRT) frequently present with aortic stenosis (AS) as the first manifestation of radiation-induced heart disease. They are considered high-risk fo...
Jul 20, 2020
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of recommendations to limit troponin testing to patients with either chest pain or ischemic electrocardiographic changes.We included all adult pat...
Jun 25, 2020
Furosemide is approved in full term neonates to treat edema associated with congestive heart failure, cirrhosis and renal diseases. It is often administered off-label in premature neonates, to treat r...
Jun 18, 2020
Improvements in the medical management of heart failure have changed the course of the disease. However, mortality rates, hospitalization rates, and treatment costs are not at desired levels. Diuretic...