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Cardiology General

Pulmonary Embolism after Acute Spinal Cord Injury and COVID-19: A Case Report.

Aug 31, 2020

The coronavirus virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is best known for its pulmonary sequelae. Understanding of the disease process is rapidly growing and the medical community already appreciates a hypercoa...

Efficacy and Safety of Nadroparin Calcium-Warfarin Sequential Anticoagulation in Portal Vein Thrombosis in Cirrhotic Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Aug 31, 2020

Anticoagulation therapy in portal vein thrombosis (PVT) in patients with cirrhosis is still a matter of debate. Therefore, the aim of this work was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of nadroparin ca...

Design and rationale of DUTCH-AF: a prospective nationwide registry programme and observational study on long-term oral antithrombotic treatment in patients with atrial fibrillation.

Aug 31, 2020

Anticoagulation therapy is pivotal in the management of stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation (AF). Prospective registries, containing longitudinal data are lacking with detailed information on ant...

Assessment of the Effect of the Go Red for Women Campaign on Search Engine Queries for Cardiovascular Disease in Women.

Aug 31, 2020

The Go Red for Women (GoRedW) campaign aims to increase awareness of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and stroke in women. However, assessing the effects of social campaigns on information-seeking behavio...

Extravascular findings on run-off MR angiography: frequency, location and clinical significance.

Aug 31, 2020

The aim of this study was to analyze the prevalence, location and clinical relevance of extravascular findings (EVFs) on magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) of the run-off vasculature.In this retrosp...

Efficacy and safety of non-vitamin K anticoagulants and warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation and heart failure: A network meta-analysis.

Aug 31, 2020

To recommend the proper anticoagulant drug and its dose for patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart failure (HF), we conducted a network meta-analysis (NMA) to make the comparisons among non-...

The effect of ASA, ticagrelor, and heparin in ST-segment myocardial infarction patients with prolonged transport times to primary percutaneous intervention.

Aug 31, 2020

To investigate the effects of early upstream antithrombotic therapy administration (ATTA) in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients with prolonged transport times to primary percu...

Intracranial artery calcifications: Risk factors and association with cardiovascular disease and cognitive function.

Aug 31, 2020

we know little about clinical outcomes of arterial calcifications. This study investigates the risk factors of intracranial artery calcifications and its association with cardiovascular disease and co...

Extracellular vesicle signalling in atherosclerosis.

Aug 31, 2020

Atherosclerosis is a major cardiovascular disease and in 2016, the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated 17.5 million global deaths, corresponding to 31% of all global deaths, were driven by infla...

Retinal Manifestations of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension.

Aug 31, 2020

Case series and systematic review to understand significant retinal changes in patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) using fundus photography and optical coherence tomography (OCT)....

Evaluation of late atrial enhancement by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.

Aug 31, 2020

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a growing public health problem especially due to its association with thromboembolic phenomena. Among its risk factors, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has increased in inci...

Prebiotic administration modulates gut microbiota and faecal short-chain fatty acid concentrations but does not prevent chronic intermittent hypoxia-induced apnoea and hypertension in adult rats.

Aug 31, 2020

Evidence is accruing to suggest that microbiota-gut-brain signalling plays a regulatory role in cardiorespiratory physiology. Chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH), modelling human sleep apnoea, affects ...

Protective effects of syringin against oxidative stress and inflammation in diabetic pregnant rats via TLR4/MyD88/NF-κB signaling pathway.

Aug 31, 2020

Gestational diabetes (GDM) is common in pregnancies due to the inflammation and oxidative stress-mediated insulin resistance. In the present study, GDM was induced in the Wistar rats by administering ...

Association of 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and metabolic syndrome in Thai postmenopausal women.

Aug 31, 2020

Low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] levels have been reported to be associated with metabolic syndrome (MetS). In this study, we aimed to investigate the association between serum 25(OH)D levels a...

Risk factors for depressive symptoms among older Chinese adults: A meta-analysis.

Aug 31, 2020

The study aims to explore the risk factors for depressive symptoms among older Chinese adults.PubMed, PsycINFO, Cochrane Library, EMbase, Google Scholar, Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNK...

Medical prevention and treatment of radiation-induced carotid injury.

Aug 31, 2020

Radiotherapy has significantly improved the survival of cancer patients but is also associated with several adversities, including radiation-induced carotid injury (RICI). The RICI mechanisms are comp...

Meat lipids, NaCl and carnitine: Do they unveil the conundrum of the association between red and processed meat intake and cardiovascular diseases?_Invited Review.

Aug 31, 2020

The assessment of the actual contribution of red or processed meat to increasing the risk of suffering cardiovascular diseases (CVD) requires identification of specific harmful components and their un...

Predictors of endothelial function improvement in patients with mild hypertriglyceridemia without evidence of coronary artery disease treated with purified eicosapentaenoic acid.

Aug 31, 2020

Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) has been reported to reduce cardiovascular risk in patients with hypertriglyceridemia. Although several mechanisms underlying the effects of EPA have been demonstrated, tho...

Cardiac papillary fibroelastoma originating from the coumadin ridge and review of literature.

Aug 31, 2020

Papillary fibroelastomas represent the second most common benign cardiac tumour, secondary only to cardiac myxoma. A majority of patients are asymptomatic on presentation. The most common clinical man...

Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Targets in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease in Extremadura (Spain): LYNX Registry.

Aug 31, 2020

Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) contributes decisively to the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD). In the LYNX registry we determined the rate of achievement of the target value of...