Sep 11, 2020

Dietary guidelines recommend keeping the intake of saturated fatty acids (SFA) below 10% of total energy. The objective of this study is to assess the association between long-term SFA intake and the ...

Sep 11, 2020

Testosterone treatment or testosterone therapy is used to treat people with abnormally low levels of testosterone. Recent studies have indicated that testosterone treatment may increase the risk of ve...

Sep 11, 2020

Stable coronary artery disease (CAD) is a condition characterized by a reversible supply/demand mismatch due to ischemia, myocardial infarction (MI), or other cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Renin-angi...

Sep 10, 2020

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) events are rare, but serious complications of total joint replacement affect patients and health care systems due to the morbidity, mortality, and associated cost of its c...

Sep 10, 2020

The objective of PHASE-MX registry is to validate the efficacy and safety of the pharmacoinvasive strategy in comparison with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with acute myocardial...

Sep 10, 2020

Impairment of blood-brain barrier (BBB) is involved in numerous neurological diseases from developmental to aging stages. Reliable imaging of increased BBB permeability is therefore crucial for basic ...

Sep 10, 2020

International guidelines recommend using the Villalta score (VS) to diagnose the post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS). However, a high proportion of PTS detected with VS could just reflect the presence of p...

Sep 10, 2020

Improvements in coronary drug-eluting stent technology has focused on reducing the long-term complications associated with the effects of the residual footprint on the vessel wall. Although many of th...

Sep 10, 2020

The objective of this review is to assess the safety and effectiveness in administering tranexamic acid in high-risk hip and knee arthroplasty patients.Arthroplasty surgery is associated with a signif...

Sep 10, 2020

Hypertension-related disease burden is a major challenge globally, with an estimated 1.56 billion adults expected to be affected by hypertension by 2025. Environmental factors, such as metals, could b...

Sep 10, 2020

We have previously shown that ultrasonography can detect hyperechogenic crystal deposits in the kidney medulla of patients with gout. In this cross-sectional study we investigated the frequency and cl...

Sep 10, 2020

Neonatal adrenal hemorrhage (NAH) in newborn infants is a rare event that is associated with specific anatomical and vascular characteristics. It is more common in term infants and occurs more often i...

Sep 10, 2020

Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are considered to be related to diabetes, but studies of the association between phenolic EDCs and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) are limited.To assess assoc...

Sep 10, 2020

There is a considerable periprocedural risk of thromboembolic events in atrial fibrillation patients undergoing cardioversion, and treatment with anticoagulants is therefore a hallmark of cardioversio...

Sep 10, 2020

The rapid spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) worldwide justifies global effort to combat the disease but also the need to review effective preventive strategies and medical management for potent...

Sep 10, 2020

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a complex and chronic condition that requires continuous medical care. Uncontrolled hyperglycemia can lead to serious microvascular and macrovascular complications, such as c...

Sep 10, 2020

Distal left main (LM) bifurcation disease is one of the most challenging lesion subsets for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and optimal stenting strategy for such complex lesions is still deb...

Sep 10, 2020

The endothelium is the innermost vascular lining performing significant roles all over the human body while maintaining the blood pressure at physiological levels. Malfunction of endothelium is thus r...

Sep 10, 2020

To report the Italian data deriving from the European Society of Cardiology-EURObservational Research Program atrial fibrillation ablation long-term registry.Ten Italian centers enrolled up to 50 cons...

Sep 09, 2020

Statins are HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, a class of lipid-lowering drugs used to reduce illness and mortality in patients who are at a high risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, the effects ...