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Cardiology General

Rapid Ultrasound for Shock and Hypotension: A Clinical Update for the Advanced Practice Provider: Part 1.

Oct 29, 2020

The Rapid Ultrasound for Shock and Hypotension (RUSH) examination is used for patients with hypotension without clear cause or undifferentiated hypotension. In the emergency department setting, clinic...

Rapid Ultrasound for Shock and Hypotension: A Clinical Update for the Advanced Practice Provider: Part 2.

Oct 29, 2020

The Rapid Ultrasound for Shock and Hypotension (RUSH) examination is used for patients with hypotension without clear cause or undifferentiated hypotension. In the emergency department setting, clinic...

Impaired contraction of blood clots precedes and predicts postoperative venous thromboembolism.

Oct 29, 2020

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a common but unpredictable complication of surgical interventions. To reveal an association between the blood clot contraction (retraction) and the incidence of postopera...

Real-time exercise stress cardiac MRI with Fourier-series reconstruction from golden-angle radial data.

Oct 29, 2020

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can measure cardiac response to exercise stress for evaluating and managing heart patients in the practice of clinical cardiology. However, exercise stress cardiac MRI...

Endovascular optical coherence tomography imaging in cerebrovascular disease.

Oct 29, 2020

Endovascular optical coherence tomography (OCT) is the highest resolution imaging modality currently available with spatial resolution of 10 µm. Although originally developed for interventional card...

The clinical significance of blood lactate levels in evaluation of adult patients with veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

Oct 29, 2020

Veno-arterial ECMO is a life-supporting procedure that can be done to the patients with cardiogenic shock which is associated with hyperlactatemia. The objective of this study was to detect the validi...

Correlation analysis between serum procalcitonin and infarct volume in young patients with acute cerebral infarction.

Oct 29, 2020

To detect the serum procalcitonin (PCT) level and determine its relationship with the infarct volume in young patients with acute cerebral infarction.According to the infarct volume, young patients wi...

Neurologic and Histologic Tests Used to Measure Neuroprotective Effectiveness of Virus-Derived Immune-Modulating Proteins.

Oct 29, 2020

Severe inflammatory disease initiated by neurotrauma and stroke is of primary concern in these intractable pathologies as noted in recent studies and understanding of the pathogenesis of spinal cord i...

MIR448 antagomir reduces arrhythmic risk after myocardial infarction by upregulating the cardiac sodium channel.

Oct 29, 2020

Cardiac ischemia is associated with arrhythmias, but effective therapies are limited. The cardiac voltage gated sodium channel α-subunit (SCN5A), encoding the Nav1.5 current, plays a key role in the ...

Left-Behind Status Worsens Prognosis of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction in Elderly Patients from Southwest China.

Oct 29, 2020

BACKGROUND This study aimed to assess the association between left-behind status and the prognosis of ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 1 015 patients with ST...

Influence of right coronary artery shape on TIMI frame count and lesion distribution.

Oct 29, 2020

The shape of the right coronary artery (RCA) may vary between individuals.The aim of this study was to investigate whether the shape of RCA has any effect on TIMI frame count (TFC), TIMI flow score, a...

Acute kidney injury in children with chronic kidney disease is associated with faster decline in kidney function.

Oct 29, 2020

This study aimed to investigate the association of acute kidney injury (AKI) with change in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in children with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD).Single ce...

Telmisartan Plus S-Amlodipine Single-Pill Combination Therapy is Safe and Effective in Patients with Hypertension from Large-Scale Nationwide Surveillance Data in Korea (NOVEL) Study.

Oct 29, 2020

We investigate the safety and efficacy of telmisartan plus S-amlodipine single-pill combination in a real-world population.A total of 44,715 patients who had hypertension and received a telmisartan/S-...

Reassessing Sarcopenia in Hypertension: STAR and ACE Inhibitors Excel.

Oct 29, 2020

Hypertension and sarcopenia are commonly seen in older adults. The renin-angiotensin system and the therapeutic use of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors have been on the agenda of sarcope...

Vitamin D3 potentiates the nephroprotective effects of metformin in a rat model of metabolic syndrome: Role of AMPK/SIRT1 activation and DPP-4 inhibition.

Oct 29, 2020

The current study aimed to investigate the molecular mechanisms of metformin and vitamin D3-induced nephroprotection in a MetS rat model, evaluating the capacity of vitamin D3 to potentiate metformin ...

The Effects of Chronic Dialysis on Physical Status, Quality of Life, and Arterial Stiffness: A Longitudinal Study in Prevalent Dialysis Patients.

Oct 29, 2020

It is widely known that dialysis patients have significantly impaired functional outcomes and arterial stiffness, but still few studies have investigated the effects of dialysis longitudinally by a mu...

Diabetes, active disease, and afternoon serum cortisol levels predicts Cushing disease mortality: a cohort study.

Oct 29, 2020

Cushing disease (CD) is a life-threating disease, with increased mortality in comparison with the general population.This study aimed to evaluate standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) in CD patients. W...

Improved nutrition in early life and pulse wave velocity and augmentation index in mid-adulthood: Follow-up of the INCAP Nutrition Supplementation Trial Longitudinal Study.

Oct 29, 2020

Nutrition in pregnancy and early childhood affects later blood pressure and precursors of atherosclerosis, but its influence on arterial stiffness is unexplored. This study determines whether exposure...

Role of acetylcholine spasm provocation test as a pathophysiological assessment in nonobstructive coronary artery disease.

Oct 29, 2020

Coronary angiography (CAG) sometimes shows nonobstructive coronary arteries in patients with suspected angina or acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The high prevalence of nonobstructive coronary artery di...

Impact of Two Different Aerobic Periodization Training Protocols on Left Ventricular Function in Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease: An Exploratory Study.

Oct 29, 2020

We compared the impacts of linear (LP) and non-linear (NLP) aerobic training periodizations on left ventricular (LV) function and geometry in coronary artery disease (CAD) patients.39 CAD patients wer...