Cardiology General
Nov 09, 2020
Endovascular treatment in thoracic aortic diseases has increased in use exponentially since Dake and colleagues first described the use of a home-made transluminal endovascular graft on 13 patients wi...
Nov 09, 2020
Stanford Type A aortic dissection repair surgery is associated with high mortality and clinical practice remains variable among hospitals. Few studies have examined statewide practice variation. ...
Nov 09, 2020
Background The current guidelines have recommended to shorten the dual antiplatelet therapy duration in patients at high bleeding risk (HBR) to minimize the bleeding complications. The impact of ische...
Nov 09, 2020
To explore the association between E-wave propagation index (EPI) as a marker of apical washout and the risk of left ventricular thrombus (LVT) formation in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infar...
Nov 09, 2020
There has been considerable debate on the extent to which the decline in coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality has been caused by better control of coronary risk factors in the general population or ...
Nov 09, 2020
Previously, we have shown that an increased cGMP-activated protein Kinase (PKG) activity after phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE5) inhibition by Sildenafil (SIL), leads to myocardial Na/H exchanger (NHE1) inhi...
Nov 09, 2020
Interferon regulatory factor 7 (IRF7) plays a key role to regulate an inflammatory response, inhibits vascular smooth cell proliferation and promotes apoptosis. But its role in pulmonary hypertension ...
Nov 09, 2020
Amlodipine is a dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker widely used in the treatment of high blood pressure and coronary heart disease. Intoxication can lead to reflex tachycardia following massive hy...
Nov 09, 2020
Photobiomodulation (PBM) could improve systemic blood glucose and insulin resistance in diet-induced diabetic mice. A few possible molecular mechanisms for the beneficial effects of PBM on diabetes ha...
Nov 09, 2020
Phthalates and bisphenol A (BPA) have been suspected as risk factors for obesity and diabetes mellitus (DM) among humans. However, associations between phthalates and environmental phenols are often i...
Nov 09, 2020
Impaired baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) may indicate cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy (CAN), which often remains undiagnosed during the initial course of diabetes mellitus. The baroreflex mechanism c...
Nov 09, 2020
The use of myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) in the management of coronary artery disease (CAD) is well established. Although prior studies have shown disparities in the use of invasive angiography i...
Nov 09, 2020
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) was reported to increase the risk of new cardiovascular events in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS). However, most of the evidence comes from randomized cl...
Nov 09, 2020
Early stages of atherosclerosis are characterizated for the uptake of oxidate low-density lipoprotein (oxLDL) by inflammatory macrophages in the arteries, promoting the foam cell formation. Drimys win...
Nov 09, 2020
An accurate estimation of the duration of atrial fibrillation (AF) is critical for its safe management. Recent studies suggested that copeptin, carbohydrate antigen-125 (CA-125), galectin-3 and growth...
Nov 09, 2020
Diabetes mellitus (DM) and atrial fibrillation (AF) are major unsolved public health problems, and diabetes is an independent risk factor for AF. However, the mechanism(s) underlying this clinical ass...
Nov 05, 2020
Incidence rates for lower extremity deep vein thrombosis (DVT) range from 88 to 112 per 100 000 person-years and increase with age. Rates of recurrent VTE range from 20% to 36% during the 10 years a...
Nov 05, 2020
Two of the more common potential complications after arthroplasty are venous thromboembolism (VTE), which includes deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolus (PE), and excess bleeding. Appropria...
Nov 05, 2020
The objective of this review is to synthesize the best available evidence to determine the prevalence and incidence of adverse events in patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome who have undergone...
Nov 05, 2020
Ceramides are bioactive lipids that have an important role in many cellular functions such as apoptosis and inflammation. During the past decade emerging clinical data have shown that ceramides are no...