Cardiology General
Jul 27, 2020
Venous thromboembolism is the second overall leading cause of death for patients with cancer, and there is an approximately 2-fold increase in fatal pulmonary embolism (PE) in patients with cancer. In...
Jul 27, 2020
In Part 1 of this Thematic Issue entitled "Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases and Cardiology", a panel of specialists and experts in cardiology, rheumatology, immunology and related fields discuss...
Jul 27, 2020
This study sought to determine the impact of baseline chronic kidney disease (CKD) on in-hospital outcomes of transcatheter mitral valve repair with MitraClip (MC).MC is now an established treatment i...
Jul 27, 2020
Takotsubo syndrome mimics acute myocardial infarction (MI) at presentation.To explore differences in ECG time-course that could further help distinguish the two conditions.Serial ECG's (day 0-4) of 27...
Jul 27, 2020
Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) undergoing chronic hemodialysis are at high mortality and cardiovascular risk. This study was aimed to assess whether the CHA2DS2-VASc score may be used fo...
Jul 27, 2020
Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency (PKD) is an autosomal recessive enzyme defect of the glycolytic pathway that causes congenital, non-spherocytic hemolytic anemia. The diagnosis and management of patients ...
Jul 27, 2020
Ganglioneuromas are very rare tumors of the sympathetic nervous system. Clinical and pathological knowledge is currently based on largely incomparable registries and case series that focus on pediatri...
Jul 27, 2020
The influence of specific brain lesions on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) after acute ischemic stroke (AIS) is uncertain. We aimed to identify imaging predictors of poor HRQoL in alteplase-tre...
Jul 27, 2020
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease which also causes cognitive deficits. Betaine (N,N,N-trimethylglycine), also known as trimethylglycine, has been shown to ameliorate diabetic symptoms in diabe...
Jul 27, 2020
Statins are widely used to prevent cardiovascular events, but little is known about the impact of different risk factors for statin-related myopathy or their relevance to reports of other types of mus...
Jul 27, 2020
Coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) plaque quantification has been proposed to be of incremental value in the prediction of ischemia, although prior studies have shown conflicting results....
Jul 27, 2020
Calcific aortic valve disease is highly prevalent in patients with significant smoking history and is a marker of atherosclerosis. The aim of this study was to define the prognostic value of aortic va...
Jul 27, 2020
To explore whether variability in dietary cholesterol and phytosterol absorption impacts the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) using as instruments sequence variants in the ABCG5/8 genes, key regu...
Jul 27, 2020
Resting heart rate (HR) associates with cardiovascular outcomes in the general population and in patients with hypertension and heart failure. The accuracy of pulse rate acquired by 24-h ambulatory bl...
Jul 23, 2020
Celiac disease (CD) is a chronic intestinal immune-mediated disease occurring in genetically susceptible individuals who are exposed to gluten. Although it primarily affects the small intestine, CD ha...
Jul 23, 2020
To evaluate the clinical efficacy of internal fixation versus hemiarthroplasty in the treatment of unstable intertrochanteric fractures in the elderly.A search was conducted in PubMed, Web of Science,...
Jul 23, 2020
People undergoing major amputation of the lower limb are at increased risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE). Risk factors for VTE in amputees include advanced age, sedentary lifestyle, longstanding art...
Jul 23, 2020
To investigate potential relationships between neuropsychological functioning and cardiac, gastroenterologic/hepatologic, and pulmonary complications in the single ventricle heart disease (SVHD) post-...
Jul 23, 2020
Ischemic stroke is related to the level of total homocysteine and the stability of carotid atherosclerotic plaque. In this study, the characteristics of carotid plaque in hypertensive patients with hy...
Jul 23, 2020
To investigate the association of body mass index (BMI) with multivessel coronary artery disease in patients with myocardial infarction.This study was performed in 1566 patients with myocardial infarc...