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Cardiology General

Clinical and Cardiac Characteristics of COVID-19 Mortalities in a Diverse New York City Cohort.

Oct 08, 2020

Electrocardiographic characteristics in COVID-19 related mortality have not yet been reported, particularly in racial/ethnic minorities.We reviewed demographics, laboratory and cardiac tests, medicati...

A Novel Approach for Atrial Fibrillation Signal Identification Based on Temporal Attention Mechanism.

Oct 08, 2020

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common heart rhythm which occurs when the upper chambers of the heart beat irregularly. With the rapid development of the deep learning algorithm, the Convolutional Neura...

The Productivity Requirements of Implementing a Medical Scribe Program.

Oct 08, 2020

Economic analyses of medical scribes have been limited to individual, specialty-specific clinics.To determine the number of additional patient visits various specialties would need to recover the cost...

Brief Report: Hypercoagulable viscoelastic blood clot characteristics in critically-ill COVID-19 patients and associations with thrombotic complications.

Oct 05, 2020

Critically-ill COVID-19 patients have frequent thrombotic complications and laboratory evidence of hypercoagulability. The relationship of coagulation tests and thrombosis requires investigation to id...

The venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in patients receiving thoracic surgery: A systematic review.

Oct 05, 2020

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a significant and preventable cause of mortality and morbidity in thoracic surgery. It usually deep venous thromboembolism (DVT) and pulmonary thromboembolism (PE). We ...

Early Thromboprophylaxis in Operative Spinal Trauma Does Not Increase Risk of Bleeding Complications.

Oct 05, 2020

Thromboprophylaxis in patients with spinal trauma is often delayed due to the risk of bleeding and expansion of the intraspinal hematoma (ISH). Our study aimed to assess the safety of early initiation...

Association of Isolated Diastolic Hypertension Based on the Cutoff Value in the 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Blood Pressure Guidelines With Subsequent Cardiovascular Events in the General Population.

Oct 05, 2020

Background The 2017 American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines lowered the threshold of blood pressure (BP) for hypertension to 130/80 mm Hg. However, the clini...

Tumor Embolism Through Right-to-Left Shunt Due to Venous Invasion of Esophageal Carcinoma.

Oct 05, 2020

A 69-year-old man was admitted to the hospital with right hemiparesis and global aphasia. Perfusion computed tomography imaging revealed ischemic penumbra in the middle cerebral artery territory. Angi...

Isokinetic Analysis of Trunk Muscles in Stroke Patients and its Association with Functional Parameters.

Oct 05, 2020

The purpose of our study is to investigate the association of balance, motor and functional development parameters with trunk muscles via isokinetic analysis in stroke patients due to cerebrovascular ...

Impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak on acute admissions at the emergency and cardiology departments across Europe.

Oct 05, 2020

We evaluated whether the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 pandemic was associated with changes in the pattern of acute cardiovascular admissions across European centres.We set-up a mult...

Internet search volume for chest pain during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Oct 05, 2020

During the COVID-19 pandemic there has been a reduction in hospital admissions for acute myocardial infarction. This manuscript presents the analysis of Google Trends meta-data and shows a marked spik...

Chronic sigma-1 receptor activation ameliorates ventricular remodeling and decreases susceptibility to ventricular arrhythmias after myocardial infarction in rats.

Oct 05, 2020

The present study aimed to assess the effect of sigma-1 receptor (S1R) stimulation on ventricular remodeling and susceptibility to ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) after myocardial infarction (MI) in rat...

MiR-124-3p promotes trophoblast cell HTR-8/SVneo pyroptosis by targeting placental growth factor.

Oct 05, 2020

MiR-124-3p is one of the aberrantly expressed miRNAs in the placentas of patients with preeclampsia (PE), a severe obstetric complication characterised by hypertension and proteinuria. This study aime...

Bilateral optic disc edema with preserved visual function not related to papilledema.

Oct 05, 2020

Bilateral optic disc edema (ODE) with preserved visual function is typically a result of papilledema, but the causes of this finding in the absence of raised intracranial pressure have not been system...

Association of aldehyde exposure with cardiovascular disease.

Oct 05, 2020

The effect of aldehyde exposure on the cardiovascular system remains unclear. The objective of this study was to determine whether aldehyde exposure is associated with the prevalence of cardiovascular...

MiR-193b inhibits autophagy and apoptosis by targeting IGFBP5 in high glucose-induced trophoblasts.

Oct 05, 2020

Inhibiting apoptosis of trophoblasts in women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is expected to guarantee adequate nutrition for the fetus and avoid abortion. MiR-193b is one of the most downreg...

Diabetes, prediabetes, and suicide deaths in a Japanese working population.

Oct 05, 2020

To examine the association of diabetes and prediabetes with suicide deaths in a Japanese working population.A nested case-control study was conducted using data from the Japan Epidemiology Collaborati...

Machine learning-aided risk stratification system for the prediction of coronary artery disease.

Oct 05, 2020

Machine learning (ML) may be helpful to simplify the risk stratification of coronary artery disease (CAD). The current study aims to establish a ML-aided risk stratification system to simplify the pro...

Combination of Danshen and ligustrazine has dual anti-inflammatory effect on macrophages and endothelial cells.

Oct 05, 2020

Salvia Miltiorrhiza Radix et Rhizoma (Danshen) and Chuanxiong Rhizoma (Chuanxiong) are both traditional Chinese medicines with vascular protective effects, and their combination is widely used in Chin...

CT Angiography of the Heart and Aorta in TIA and Ischaemic Stroke: Cardioembolic Risk Sources and Clinical Implications.

Oct 05, 2020

Cardiac emboli are important causes of (recurrent) ischaemic stroke. Aorta atherosclerosis might also be associated with an increased risk of stroke recurrence. This study aimed to evaluate the yield ...