Cardiology General
Jun 18, 2020
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic that started in China in December 2019 and carries a high risk of morbidity and mortality. To-date (4-22-2020) it affected over 2.6 million people and...
Jun 18, 2020
To determine whether the pulmonary embolism (PE) categories of massive, submassive, PE with no right ventricle dysfunction (NRVD), and subsegmental only (SSO) adequately predict clinical outcome.Patie...
Jun 18, 2020
Reactive hyperemia-peripheral arterial tonometry (RH-PAT) is a noninvasive and simple test for evaluating the endothelial function. There has been sparse evidence on the usefulness of the RH-PAT index...
Jun 18, 2020
Cryptogenic stroke comprises about one-quarter of ischemic strokes with high recurrence rate; however, studies specifically investigating the features and treatment of this stroke subtype are rare. Th...
Jun 18, 2020
With the emerging interest in patients with myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary arteries (MINOCA), there is a need to define an even broader group of patients with the syndrome of myoc...
Jun 18, 2020
Stent retriever technology has evolved, and significantly longer devices have become available for mechanical thrombectomy (MT) of large cerebral vessel occlusions in ischemic stroke. We hypothesized ...
Jun 18, 2020
Diffusion-weighted imaging-fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (DWI-FLAIR) mismatch is an early sign of acute ischemic stroke. DWI-FLAIR mismatch was reported to be valuable to select patients with un...
Jun 18, 2020
The genetic variants of the receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) gene have been associated with vascular disease risk. The objective of this work was to explore the association of three...
Jun 18, 2020
Dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) reduces the incidence of thrombotic complications at the cost of an increase in bleedings. New antiplatelet therapies focused on minimizing bleeding and maximizing ant...
Jun 18, 2020
Myocardial infarction (MI) refers to the loss of cardiomyocytes due to inadequate coronary blood flow and subsequently a reduced oxygen supply. Activation of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors has ...
Jun 18, 2020
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of luteolin (Lu) on myocardial ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury in rats. I/R model was established by ligating left anterior descending branch...
Jun 18, 2020
The repositioning of an autologous bone flap after decompressive craniectomy (DC) for traumatic intracranial hypertension remains the first-line treatment for cranial reconstruction. Aseptic autologou...
Jun 18, 2020
Bariatric surgery is becoming increasingly popular in the treatment of severely obese patients who failed to lose weight with the help of non-surgical interventions. Such patients are at increased ris...
Jun 18, 2020
Primary aldosteronism (PA) is characterized by hypertension caused by inappropriately high adrenal aldosterone secretion, consecutively low plasma renin, and an elevated aldosterone to renin ratio. It...
Jun 18, 2020
In this study, we tested the hypothesis that overexpression of miR-9 and miR-29a may contribute to DPN development and progression. We performed a meta-analysis of miR expression profile studies in hu...
Jun 18, 2020
Since December 2019, countries around the world have been struggling with the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). Case series have reported that people with obesity experience more severe coronavirus dise...
Jun 18, 2020
The purpose of this study is to determine factors associated with the need for revision anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) after multiligament knee injury (MLKI) and to report outcomes f...
Jun 18, 2020
Improvements in the medical management of heart failure have changed the course of the disease. However, mortality rates, hospitalization rates, and treatment costs are not at desired levels. Diuretic...
Jun 18, 2020
As an inevitable biological process, cardiovascular aging is the greatest risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Sestrin 2 (Sesn2), a stress-inducible and age-related protein associated with ...
Jun 18, 2020
Invasive studies show that the glomerular sieving coefficients for 5-30 kDa plasma proteins in the human kidney may be selectively reduced compared to those for small molecules < 0.9 kDa, commonly ...