Cardiology General
May 28, 2020
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is one of the most common persistent arrhythmias, which has a close connection to a large number of cardiovascular diseases. However, if spotted early, the diagnosis of AF can...
May 28, 2020
The 2018 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Multisociety Guideline on the Management of Blood Cholesterol identified patients with recent (past 12 months) myocardial infarction ...
May 26, 2020
Research indicates that rates of severe obesity among adolescents are increasing around the world, with no signs of slowing. Although the first recommended intervention for severely obese adolescents ...
May 24, 2020
Data suggest that heart failure (HF) is the second most common reason for hospital admission in the US among older adults, with other evidence that those with HF who receive cardiology care during a h...
May 23, 2020
Research indicates that patients with non-calcified coronary burden (NCB), particularly those with psoriasis, are at an increased risk of acute coronary syndrome, stroke, and cardiovascular mortality ...
May 23, 2020
Research indicates that non-Hispanic black (NHB) patients, especially men, are at a greater risk of hypertension and hypertensive heart disease, and have worse outcomes and a higher risk of complicati...
May 22, 2020
Prior research has assessed post-transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) mortality in patients with heart failure (HF) with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and with reduced ejection fractio...
May 21, 2020
With significant advances in the treatment of viral hepatitis—including increasing cure rates for hepatitis C and highly effective treatment of hepatitis B—suspicions have arisen that the profile ...
May 19, 2020
The number of people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) has increased and so has their demand for travel. However, the health risk posed by travel in these patients is unclear. Few reports document the...
May 19, 2020
Posterior reversible encephalopathy (PRES) is a rare syndrome characterized by headache, confusion, seizures, visual changes and white matter edema at radiological imaging. Its pathophysiology is not ...
May 19, 2020
To investigate deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), we performed a single institutional study to evaluate its prevalence, risk factors, progno...
May 19, 2020
Arterial and venous thromboses occur in patients with POEMS (polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, M-protein level, and skin changes) syndrome at a previously reported rate of 20%. We reviewed...
May 19, 2020
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has rapidly become pandemic, with substantial mortality.To evaluate the pathologic ...
May 19, 2020
Some conditions consolidated as risk factors for oropharyngeal dysphagia have already been identified in other diseases, such as neurological. Studies on cardiovascular diseases concentrate in individ...
May 19, 2020
The 2017 American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association guideline defined hypertension as blood pressure (BP) ≥ 130/80 mmHg compared to the traditional definition of ≥140/90�...
May 19, 2020
Thrombectomy is an effective treatment for acute ischemic stroke (AIS). The aim was to compare clinical outcomes with intracranial artery occlusion site among AIS patients treated in the setting of a ...
May 19, 2020
This study aims to evaluate the potential effect and the underlying mechanism of CCL2 in ischemic stroke.An integrated bioinformatics analysis was performed to identify the differentially expressed (D...
May 19, 2020
Increasing research reports neurological manifestations of COVID-19 patients. SARS-CoV-2 shares homology with other human coronaviruses that have also had nervous system involvement.To review the neur...
May 19, 2020
Transcervical carotid artery stenting (CAS) has emerged as an alternative to transfemoral CAS. An earlier systematic review from our group (n = 12 studies; 739 transcervical CAS procedures [489/739 wi...
May 19, 2020
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a major cardiovascular disease with high mortality worldwide. Hypoxia is a key inducing factor for AMI. We aimed to examine the expression and functions of Kcnq1ot...