Aug 27, 2020

To study the carotid intima-media thickness （IMT） level of OSA patients of different severity, the proportion of Th17 cells in peripheral blood and the mRNA level of nuclear transfer factor RORγt...

Aug 27, 2020

To evaluate long-term clinical outcomes of consecutive patients treated with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and percutaneous coronary intervention(PCI) with drug-eluting stents(DES) for ostia...

Aug 27, 2020

To investigate whether CD137 signaling can promote angiogenesis via regulating macrophage M1/M2 polarization. (1) The primary peritoneal macrophages in mice induced by 3% thiglycollate broth were di...

Aug 27, 2020

Machine learning applications in cardiology have rapidly evolved in the past decade. With the availability of machine learning tools coupled with vast data sources, the management of atrial fibrillati...

Aug 27, 2020

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia, yet the molecular signature of the vulnerable atrial substrate is not well understood. Here, we delineated a distinct transcriptional si...

Aug 25, 2020

Postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) is a common risk of left-sided heart valve surgery. However, there is limited data on the risk of thromboembolism in patients with new-onset POAF after heart v...

Aug 25, 2020

Mild echocardiographic pulmonary hypertension (ePH) is a condition of high blood pressure in the arteries that go from the heart to the lungs. Severe pulmonary hypertension is associated with an incre...

Aug 25, 2020

Asthma is a chronic pulmonary condition characterized by the narrowing and swelling of airways in the lungs. Although asthma and atrial fibrillation (AF) share pathophysiological mechanisms, it's not ...

Aug 25, 2020

HIV-infected individuals are at a higher risk of disorders of lipid metabolism and cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, the exact associations between HIV infection, CVD, and lipid metabolism are no...

Aug 25, 2020

Obesity is one of the established risk factors of arterial fibrillation (AF). Antiarrhythmic drugs (AADs) are used to prevent and treat abnormal heartbeat conditions, like AF, but their effect on obes...

Aug 25, 2020

Pulmonary hypertension (pHTN) is one of the complications of mitral valve surgery for mitral regurgitation and is often associated with an increased risk of mortality. However, for patients undergoing...

Aug 25, 2020

ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) is one of the most severe types of heart attack in which one of the heart's major arteries is blocked. Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is th...

Aug 25, 2020

Blood pressure is one of the critical determinants of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in middle-aged and older adults. But whether blood pressure patterns in young adulthood increase the risk of CVD and ...

Aug 24, 2020

Three-dimensional reconstruction (3DR) of preoperative images may improve the presurgical assessment of tumours prior to removal. We aimed to analyse the advantages and discrepancies of preoperative 3...

Aug 24, 2020

The study intended to evaluate stent primary patency rates for patients with iliac vein obstruction related with iliac vein compression syndrome (IVCS) according to clinic presentation.A systematic re...

Aug 24, 2020

This study aimed to investigate the differential effects of bilateral and unilateral mirror therapy (MT) on motor cortical activations in stroke patients by magnetoencephalography (MEG).Sixteen stroke...

Aug 24, 2020

 The objective of this study was to characterize clinical features and outcomes among patients with calf deep vein thrombosis (DVT) limited to the muscular veins compared with axial veins. Consecu...

Aug 24, 2020

 Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a risk factor for poor postoperative outcome after transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TF-TAVR). The present study analyses the outcomes after TF-TAVR i...

Aug 24, 2020

Reducing saturated fat reduces serum cholesterol, but effects on other intermediate outcomes may be less clear. Additionally, it is unclear whether the energy from saturated fats eliminated from the d...

Aug 24, 2020

In Russia, in recent decades, there were regional gapping in terms of social inequality and high level of morbidity and mortality in comparison with European countries. The high morbidity and mortalit...