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Cardiology General

Clinical analysis of postoperative venous thromboembolism in Japanese patients after colorectal cancer surgery.

Jan 04, 2021

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a major complication after abdominal surgery; however, the best strategy for preventing VTE after surgery is not yet established. We performed this study to investigate...

Clinical governance programme in patients with acute coronary syndrome: design and methodology of a quality improvement initiative.

Jan 04, 2021

Despite the availability of diverse evidence-based diagnostic and treatment options, many patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) still fail to receive effective, safe and timely diagnoses and the...

Malignant Left Atrial Appendage Morphology: Current Classification vs H-L System.

Jan 04, 2021

In previous studies the risk of stroke recurrence has been associated with the left atrial appendage (LAA) morphology (non-chicken wing (NCW)), knowing those with a greater risk as malignant LAA. Rece...

Combining unsupervised and supervised learning for predicting the final stroke lesion.

Jan 04, 2021

Predicting the final ischaemic stroke lesion provides crucial information regarding the volume of salvageable hypoperfused tissue, which helps physicians in the difficult decision-making process of tr...

Interplay between COVID-19, pollution, and weather features on changes in the incidence of acute coronary syndromes in early 2020.

Jan 04, 2021

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused an unprecedented change in the apparent epidemiology of acute coronary syndromes (ACS). However, the interplay between this disease, changes in pollution...

Prognostic value of intraplaque neovascularization detected by carotid Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in patients undergoing stress echocardiography.

Jan 04, 2021

Stress echocardiography (SE) is used for diagnosis and risk stratification of patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease (CAD). Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) detects carotid intrap...

Ventricular septal rupture and cardiogenic shock complicating STEMI during COVID-19 pandemic: An old foe re-emerges.

Jan 04, 2021

The COVID 19 pandemic resulted in a total reduction in the number of hospitalizations for acute coronary syndromes. A consequence of the delay in coronary revascularization has been the resurgence of ...

A nation-wide population-based longitudinal study mapping physical diseases in patients with bipolar disorder and their siblings.

Jan 04, 2021

Patients with bipolar disorder may have increased risk of physical diseases due to genetic and environmental factors, but no study has systematically mapped all physical comorbidities in such subjects...

Sleep and cardiometabolic health in children and adults: examining sleep as a component of the 24-h day.

Jan 04, 2021

Sleep, physical activity and sedentary time are all known to play a role in cardiometabolic health. Compositional data analysis (CoDA) enables us to examine associations between 24-h use of time and h...

C-reactive protein at discharge and 1-year mortality in hospitalised patients with acute decompensated heart failure: an observational study.

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...

Maternal Hypercholesterolemia Exacerbates Atherosclerosis Lesions in Female Offspring through Potentiating Macrophage Polarization toward an Inflammatory M1 Phenotype: Maternal Hypercholesterolemia Exacerbates Atherosclerosis.

Jan 04, 2021

Maternal hypercholesterolemia induces early onset of cardiovascular diseases in offspring; however, its underlying mechanism remains poorly understood. We hypothesized that maternal hypercholesterolem...

Analysis of the metabolic switch induced by the spirulina peptide SP6 in high fat diet ApoE mice model: A direct infusion FT-ICR-MS based approach.

Jan 04, 2021

Atherosclerosis, dyslipidemia and hypertension are comorbid diseases often found in combination. Among different pharmacological approaches the employment of natural multifunctional peptides is an att...

The Efficacy of Colchicine on Carotid Intima-Media Thickness: A Prospective Comparative Study.

Jan 04, 2021

Inflammation plays an important role in the development of atherosclerotic vascular disease, which is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the adult population. Several clinical trials have...

Cardiac arrhythmias in highlanders with a diagnosis of chronic cor pulmonale.

Jan 04, 2021

El corazón pulmonar crónico (CPC) muestra un incremento en habitantes que viven en grandes altitudes.Investigar la frecuencia de arritmias cardíacas y factores de riesgo para su desarrollo.Estudio ...

Digital Health in Cardiac Rehabilitation and Secondary Prevention: A Search for the Ideal Tool.

Jan 04, 2021

Digital health is becoming more integrated in daily medical practice. In cardiology, patient care is already moving from the hospital to the patients' homes, with large trials showing positive results...

Over-fitting suppression training strategies for deep learning-based atrial fibrillation detection.

Jan 04, 2021

Nowadays, deep learning-based models have been widely developed for atrial fibrillation (AF) detection in electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. However, owing to the inevitable over-fitting problem, classi...

Risk factors for acute stroke-associated pneumonia and prediction of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratios.

Jan 04, 2021

This study aimed to analyze the risk factors for stroke-associated pneumonia (SAP) and assess the predictive effect of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) on acute SAP.The study included acute stroke...

Tomography in Patients with Atypical Angina or Chest Pain

Jan 01, 2021

Invasive coronary angiography is the final diagnosis of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD). However, some studies suggest that invasive coronary angiography has a low diagnostic yield. Computed...

Deep Venous Thrombosis in COVID-19 Patients: A Cohort Analysis.

Dec 31, 2020

Deep venous thrombosis (DVT) is a severe complication of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The purpose of this study was to study the prevalence, risk factors, anticoagulant therapy and sex differe...

Anti-neutrophil properties of natural gingerols in models of lupus.

Dec 31, 2020

Ginger is known to have anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative effects, and has traditionally been used as an herbal supplement in the treatment of various chronic diseases. Here, we report anti-neutrop...