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Cardiology General

Sex Differences in All-Cause Mortality Following Complex Coronary Revascularization

Aug 20, 2020

Coronary artery revascularization (CAR) is performed when the coronary arteries become severely blocked. Recent studies have suggested that the effect of CAR treatments, like coronary artery bypass gr...

Prevalence and Prognostic Effect of Malnutrition in Patients with ACS

Aug 20, 2020

Malnutrition is often associated with poor prognosis of several illnesses. However, its prevalence and prognostic effect in patients with the acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are not well studied. This s...

Blood Pressure in Patients with Shock After a Cardiovascular Event

Aug 20, 2020

Patients in shock after a recent event of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) or cardiac arrest may need a consistent supply of pharmacological support. The higher doses may affect the blood pressure in...

Adverse Cardiac Outcomes in Patients with Sarcoidosis

Aug 20, 2020

Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory disease characterized by the formation of abnormal masses (granulomas) in multiple organs of the body, like lungs and lymph glands. A small percentage of patients with s...

Cardiovascular Disease and the Risk of Premature Mortality

Aug 20, 2020

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality and morbidity around the world. While the worse-effected individuals from CVD are seniors aged 65 and more, the incidence of premature CV...

Obesity and Long-term Outcomes in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Aug 20, 2020

Obesity is one of the leading causes of non-specific mortality across the world. One of the complications of obesity or adiposity is complications in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a...

Calcified 1K Plaque and Risk of Acute Coronary Syndrome

Aug 20, 2020

The build-up of high-density calcified 1K plaque (more than 350 HU) is one of the leading predictors of heart attack and other cardiovascular diseases. This study aims to assess the association of the...

Monogenic vs. Polygenic Hypercholesterolemia and the risk of Atherosclerosis

Aug 20, 2020

Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, or atherosclerosis, is a condition characterized by the hardening and narrowing of arteries, putting blood flow at risk. Hypercholesterolemia is a condition of ...

The Effect of a Kidney Transplant on Cardiovascular Function Reserve

Aug 20, 2020

Cardiovascular function reserve is the difference between the normal rate at which the heart pumps blood and its maximum rate of pumping blood at a given time. In some medical conditions, the measurem...

Cardiovascular Events in Older Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease

Aug 20, 2020

Patients with chronic kidney disease are at a higher risk of cardiovascular diseases, like atrial fibrillation. However, the risk of other CVD events, like ischemic stroke, hemorrhage, and mortality i...

Fluoroquinolone Use and Risk of Aortic Aneurysm and Dissection

Aug 20, 2020

Fluoroquinolone is an antibiotic drug used to treat respiratory and urinary tract infections. The prolonged use of fluoroquinolone is, however, associated with the rupture of the aorta and the risk of...

Alcohol Intake and the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

Aug 20, 2020

Moderate alcohol intake isn't associated with significant health risks. Increased intake, however, can have adverse effects on the liver and pancreas. But it is not clear if alcohol intake is related ...

Post-stroke complex regional pain syndrome and related factors: Experiences from a tertiary rehabilitation center.

Aug 20, 2020

In this study, it is aimed to determine the risk factors associated with CRPS after stroke and the clinical parameters of the patients and the treatment agents used for CPRS METHOD: 213 hemiplegic pat...

Deep vein thrombosis of the common iliac vein caused by neurogenic heterotopic ossification in the anterior lower lumbar spine of a patient with complete paraplegia due to radiation-induced myelopathy.

Aug 20, 2020

: Deep vein thrombosis (DVT), a frequent complication of spinal cord injury, is occasionally caused by neurogenic heterotopic ossification (NHO). In most cases of NHO, the hip joint is affected. Herei...

Early detection of deep vein thrombosis in patients with coronavirus disease 2019: who to screen and who not to with Doppler ultrasound?

Aug 20, 2020

Aim of the study is to evaluate the incidence of DVT in COVID-19 patients and its correlation with the severity of the disease and with clinical and laboratory findings.234 symptomatic patients with C...

Impact of operator characteristics on outcomes in transcatheter aortic valve replacement.

Aug 20, 2020

Operator characteristics and outcome relationships have not been evaluated at the individual operator level.New York State Department of Health Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System from ...

Risk Differences in Secondary Prevention Patients Who Present With Acute Coronary Syndrome and Implications of Guideline-Directed Cholesterol Management.

Aug 20, 2020

The 2018 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association cholesterol guidelines for secondary prevention identified a group of "very high risk" (VHR) patients, those with multiple major athe...

Electrocardiographic left atrial abnormality in patients presenting with ischemic stroke.

Aug 20, 2020

P wave indices represent electrocardiographic marker of left atrial pathology. We hypothesized that P wave would be more abnormal in patients presenting with ischemic stroke than a comparable group wi...

Acute retinal arterial ischemia: Silent brain infarcts prevalence and short term recurrence.

Aug 20, 2020

To evaluate, in a consecutive series of patients with isolated acute retinal ischemia, the proportion of patients with acute silent brain infarcts (SBI) on diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and to asse...

The endocannabinoid 2-arachidonoylglycerol inhibits endothelial function and repair.

Aug 20, 2020

Endothelial dysfunction promotes atherogenesis, vascular inflammation, and thrombus formation. Reendothelialization after angioplasty is required in order to prevent stent failure. Previous studies ha...