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Cardiology General

Renal Denervation in High-Risk Patients With Hypertension.

Jun 15, 2020

Renal denervation (RDN) is under investigation for treatment of uncontrolled hypertension and might represent an attractive treatment for patients with high cardiovascular (CV) risk. It is important t...

Geographic Access to Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Centers in the United States: Insights From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry.

Jun 15, 2020

Geographic access to transcatheter aortic replacement (TAVR) centers varies in the United States as a result of controlled expansion through minimum volume requirements.To describe the current geograp...

Efficacy of panniculectomy-combined surgery in superobese patients with endometrial cancer: A case report and literature review.

Jun 15, 2020

Panniculectomy is regarded as an effective approach in highly obese patients with endometrial cancer to improve surgical access or space of the surgical field.A 66-year-old nulliparous woman was broug...

Microdose lithium reduces cellular senescence in human astrocytes - a potential pharmacotherapy for COVID-19?

Jun 15, 2020

Cell senescence is a process that causes growth arrest and the release of a senescence associated secretory phenotype (SASP), characterized by secretion of chemokines, cytokines, cell growth factors a...

Thoracic Outlet Syndrome in the Overhead Athlete: Diagnosis and Treatment Recommendations.

Jun 11, 2020

Neurovascular compression in the upper extremity is rare but can affect even those participating in high-level competitive athletics. To assess optimal approaches to treatment, in this review, we eval...

Evaluating upadacitinib for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.

Jun 11, 2020

The introduction of JAKs inhibitors for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis represents a promising new era in the management of the disease. New compounds under investigation, like upadacitinib, wit...

Fibrinolytic protease from Bacillus cereus S46: Purification, characterization, and evaluation of its in vitro thrombolytic potential.

Jun 11, 2020

Intravascular thrombosis is a prime cause of cardiac complications worldwide. Microbial fibrinolytic proteases are of clinical significance in thrombosis treatment. The present study discusses the pur...

Detection of Vascular Changes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Carotid Duplex Study in A Tertiary Cardiac Hospital.

Jun 11, 2020

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a common autoimmune connective tissue disorder and mainly affected female patients. This cross sectional study was performed in the department of Cardiology, Bang...

Differential Impact of Aging on Cardiovascular Risk in Women Military Service Members.

Jun 11, 2020

Background Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) is the third leading cause of death in women service members and veterans. This study assessed 10-year ASCVD risk in women service members and...

A multimodal approach to capture post-stroke temporal dynamics of recovery.

Jun 11, 2020

Several training programs have been developed in the past to restore motor functions after stroke. Their efficacy strongly relies on the possibility to assess individual levels of impairment and recov...

Postconditioning with Nitrates Protects Against Myocardial Reperfusion Injury: A New Use for an Old Pharmacological Agent.

Jun 11, 2020

Early reperfusion remains the key therapy to salvage viable myocardium and must be applied as soon as possible following an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) to attenuate the ischemic insult. However,...

Latency of preterm hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and subsequent cardiovascular complications.

Jun 11, 2020

To test the hypothesis that increasing latency from diagnosis to delivery in patients with preterm hypertensive disorders of pregnancy is associated with an increased maternal risk of cardiovascular a...

Performance of the GRACE 2.0 score in patients with type 1 and type 2 myocardial infarction.

Jun 11, 2020

The Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) score was developed to evaluate risk in patients with myocardial infarction. However, its performance in type 2 myocardial infarction is uncertain....

A randomized clinical trial of an interactive voice response and text message intervention for individuals with hypertension.

Jun 11, 2020

Interactive voice response and text message (IVR-T) technology may improve hypertension control in under-resourced settings. We conducted a randomized clinical trial to determine whether an IVR-T inte...

Use of a simplified clinical audit tool to evaluate hypertension and diabetes management in primary care clinics in Jamaica.

Jun 11, 2020

This study evaluates a simple clinical audit tool for assessing quality of care and blood pressure control among persons with hypertension in primary care clinics. A systematic random sampling of pers...

The impact of supine hypertension on target organ damage and survival in patients with synucleinopathies and neurogenic orthostatic hypotension.

Jun 11, 2020

In addition to neurogenic orthostatic hypotension (nOH), patients with synucleinopathies frequently have hypertension when supine. The long-term consequences of both abnormalities are difficult to dis...

Measurement of aortofemoral volume wave velocity during the routine 12-channel ECG: relation to age, physiological hemoglobin A 1C, triglycerides and SBP in healthy individuals.

Jun 11, 2020

Measurements of pulse wave velocity are generally thought to be too impractical for clinical routine. This study aimed to develop a method that can be performed during routine 12-channel ECG.A 12-chan...

The role of dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI in evaluation of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty outcome in patients with critical limb ischemia.

Jun 11, 2020

Imaging modalities such as CTA and MRA provide significant information about the distribution of macrovascular lesions of the limbs in patients with peripheral arterial disease but not for the local m...

Myosin light chain kinase inhibitor ML7 improves vascular endothelial dysfunction and permeability via the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway in a rabbit model of atherosclerosis.

Jun 11, 2020

Endothelial dysfunction (ED) and hyperpermeability are considered as the initiating steps in early atherosclerosis. Phosphorylation of myosin light chain (MLC) is key to cause vascular hyperpermeabili...

Detection of atrial fibrillation with implantable loop recorders in horses.

Jun 11, 2020

Cardiac arrhythmias in horses are diagnosed by auscultation or electrocardiogram (ECG), which results in a low sensitivity for detecting arrhythmias that occur sporadically. Implantable loop recorders...