Cardiology General
Jun 08, 2020
We aimed to investigate potential eligibility for proprotein convertase subtilisin-kexin type 9 (PCSK9) inhibitors in patients with coronary artery disease and dyslipidaemia according to patient chara...
Jun 08, 2020
Recent European guidance supports a diminished role for exercise electrocardiography (ECG) in the assessment of suspected stable angina.To evaluate the utility of exercise ECG in contemporary practice...
Jun 08, 2020
Despite pneumonia being an emerging burden on Parkinson's disease patients, there is essentially nothing known on whether they are at an increased risk of pneumonia occurrence and their associated fac...
Jun 05, 2020
Several critically important patterns that have occurred in healthcare mandate the improved management of the cardiac status of patients being treated for cancer, says Daniel Lenihan, MD: The lon...
Jun 04, 2020
Patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) usually have prolonged hospitalizations due to the need to closely monitor their neurological status. Therefore, these patients have higher risk of experien...
Jun 04, 2020
Several intensive-care units (ICUs) in Wuhan are nonstandard wards that were repurposed from general wards. Considering the shortage of medical resources and the need to prevent nosocomic infection, t...
Jun 04, 2020
This study reports the results of a multimodal thromboprophylaxis protocol for lower limb arthroplasty involving risk stratification, intraoperative calf compression, aspirin prophylaxis and early (wi...
Jun 04, 2020
This study sought to compare outcomes in patients with bicuspid versus tricuspid anatomy undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).TAVR has shown excellent safety and efficacy in patien...
Jun 04, 2020
Little is known regarding health outcomes associated with isolated systolic hypertension (ISH), isolated diastolic hypertension (IDH), or systolic and diastolic hypertension (SDH) among young adults w...
Jun 04, 2020
Pathophysiology of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) is highly complex. Bleeding from ruptured aneurysm causes increase in intracranial pressure that disrupts blood-brain barrier leading to in...
Jun 04, 2020
Cardiac rehabilitation is a medically supervised program after coronary events that involves exercise and dietary modification. We evaluated the comparative benefits and harms of cardiac rehabilitatio...
Jun 04, 2020
Cardiac troponin (cTn) is the keystone for diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). We examined the analytical and clinical diagnostic characteristics of the ACCESS hsTnI assay in a United Stat...
Jun 04, 2020
SCM-198 (Leonurine) has attracted great attention due to its cardioprotective effects in myocardial infarction (MI). However, no systematic modifications and structure-activity relationship (SAR) stud...
Jun 04, 2020
The effects of neonatal caffeine therapy in adults born preterm are uncertain. We studied the impact of neonatal caffeine on systemic blood pressure, vessel reactivity, and response to stress in ad...
Jun 04, 2020
Preeclampsia is characterized by the emergence of hypertension and proteinuria after 20 weeks of pregnancy, and it threatens both maternal and fetal lives if it proceeds unabated. Despite numerous s...
Jun 04, 2020
Postpartum hypertension is a leading cause of readmission in the postpartum period. We aimed to examine the prevalence of racial/ethnic differences in postpartum readmission due to hypertension in ...
Jun 04, 2020
We investigated early effects of Whole-Body Electromyostimulation added to hypocaloric diet on metabolic syndrome features in sedentary middle-aged individuals. We randomly assigned 25 patients to Who...
Jun 04, 2020
Bone marrow-derived cells contribute to tissue repair, but traffic of hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSPCs) is impaired in diabetes. We therefore tested whether HSPC mobilization with the CXCR4 ...
Jun 04, 2020
Migration of macrophages and atherosclerosis result in various diseases, including coronary heart disease. This study aimed to clarify the roles that ghrelin and Rho-associated coiled-coil-containing ...
Jun 04, 2020
End-stage kidney disease (ESKD) causes bleeding diathesis; however, whether these findings are extrapolable to acute kidney injury (AKI) remains uncertain. We assessed whether AKI is associated with a...