Cardiology General
Oct 05, 2020
Cardiovascular "risk" is an abstract concept that is frequently misunderstood by the general public. However, correct estimation of one's own cardiovascular risk is important as risk unawareness is as...
Oct 05, 2020
In modern cardiology, anticoagulation and antiaggregation are key components of current treatment strategies. However, in patients treated with anticoagulation and antiplatelet substances, bleeding is...
Oct 02, 2020
Colchicine is a medication primarily used to prevent gout attacks. It is also used to percent pericarditis and familial Mediterranean fever. However, recent studies have suggested that the anti-inflam...
Oct 02, 2020
Ertugliflozin is a sodium-dependent glucose cotransporter (SGLT) inhibitor drug used as a monotherapy and a fix-dose treatment for diabetes. Though recent studies have validated the efficacy of ertugl...
Oct 02, 2020
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a condition in which kidneys fail to filter waste and excess fluid from the blood. The treatments available for CKD are poor, and patients with CKD are also at a higher...
Oct 02, 2020
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is one of the most common cardiovascular diseases characterized by the irregular and rapid heart rate as a result of chaotic electric signals. Despite various developments in ...
Oct 02, 2020
Heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH) is a condition characterized by elevated plasma concentrations of LDL and LDL-C cholesterol. Evolocumab is a human monoclonal antibody routinely used ...
Oct 01, 2020
Despite thromboprophylaxis, patients with coronavirus-19 disease (COVID-19) exhibit hypercoagulability and higher venous thromboembolic risk, although its real incidence is still unknown. The aim of t...
Oct 01, 2020
To construct and validate an individualized nomogram to predict the probability of occurrence of portal vein thrombosis (PVT) after splenectomy in patients with hepatitis B cirrhosis.We retrospectivel...
Oct 01, 2020
To evaluate the safety and efficacy of additional aspiration thrombectomy (AT) or pharmacomechanical thrombectomy (PMT) after catheter-directed thrombolysis (CDT) for the treatment of acute iliofemora...
Oct 01, 2020
Current international guidelines recommend non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants (NOACs) for stroke prevention among patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AF) at significant ischaemic stroke ris...
Oct 01, 2020
Chest pain units (CPU) and stroke units (SU) have both become established as essential components of clinical emergency care. For both instances dedicated certification processes are installed. Up to ...
Oct 01, 2020
Relatively poor survival and differentiation performance of umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (ucMSCs) limits its application of transplantation. The purpose of this study was to investigate the c...
Oct 01, 2020
Inter-hospital transfer for ischemic stroke is an essential part of stroke system of care. This study aimed to understand the national patterns and outcomes of ischemic stroke transfer.This retrospect...
Oct 01, 2020
Stroke knowledge, awareness of risk factors and stroke warning symptoms is very poor among stroke survivors. We investigated whether a pre-discharge education intervention in the stroke unit could imp...
Oct 01, 2020
Optimal timing of antithrombotic therapy for patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) is unclear. We analyzed the i...
Oct 01, 2020
Elevated neutrophil count is associated with higher risk of major adverse cardiac events including myocardial infarction and early development of heart failure. Neutrophils contribute to cardiac damag...
Oct 01, 2020
Since 2007, the Korean government has provided a free health screening to the elderly starting at the age of 66 years. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between this general he...
Oct 01, 2020
Metabolic syndrome (MS) comprises a cluster of risk factors for the development of cardiovascular diseases, which are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Many studies have ...
Oct 01, 2020
Cerebral hyperperfusion syndrome is a rare but potentially severe complication of carotid artery revascularisation that develops under conditions of resistant postoperative hypertension and impaired c...