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Cardiology General

The year in review: advances in interventional cardiology in 2019.

May 19, 2020

Major studies in interventional cardiology in 2019 have added substantial new evidence for pharmaco-invasive management of coronary artery disease. The review highlights the main findings of a selecti...

Cost-effectiveness of Contemporary Statin Use Guidelines With or Without Coronary Artery Calcium Assessment in African American Individuals.

May 19, 2020

Clinical and economic consequences of statin treatment guidelines supplemented by targeted coronary artery calcium (CAC) assessment have not been evaluated in African American individuals, who are at ...

GDF-15 is associated×with sudden cardiac death due to incident myocardial infarction.

May 19, 2020

Preventing sudden cardiac death (SCD) due to acute myocardial infarction (MI) in previously healthy patients is challenging. Proteomic analysis may lead to an understanding of biological mechanisms an...

Conference Highlights: Virtual SCAI 2020

May 19, 2020

New research was presented at SCAI 2020, the virtual Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions annual meeting. The features below highlight some of the studies that emerged from the c...

Sex Disparities in Patients With HF

May 18, 2020

Women remain underrepresented in studies on advanced heart failure (HF) despite a higher mortality rate once diagnosed when compared with men. “There are well-recognized sex differences in the use o...

Validating the APPROACH CVICU Readmission Score

May 16, 2020

Published reports indicate that as many as 8% of cardiac surgical patients are readmitted to a cardiovascular intensive care unit (CVICU) during the same hospital stay, with readmission associated wit...

Cardiovascular Consequences of OSA Symptom Subtypes

May 16, 2020

For certain patient groups, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may be associated with cardiovascular disease. At present, physicians determine OSA severity by referring to the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI), w...

Chronic Kidney Disease & Cardiac Biomarkers

May 15, 2020

Previous studies have established a direct association between chronic kidney disease (CKD) and cardiovascular (CV) mortality and morbidity. Evidence suggests that patients with CKD have an increased ...

Covid-19: High Mortality Seen in Heart Transplant Patients

May 15, 2020

Small series points to complex issues for HT patients with Covid-19 Over an 8-week period beginning March 1, doctors at a large academic medical center in New York confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in 2...

Outcomes of children with hepatoblastoma who underwent liver resection at a tertiary hospital in China: a retrospective analysis.

May 12, 2020

To report the outcomes of hepatoblastoma resected in our institution.We diagnosed 135 children with hepatoblastoma at our institution between January 2010 and December 2017. Patients who underwent liv...

Current Management of Portal vein Thrombosis in Liver Transplantation.

May 12, 2020

Nontumoral portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is present at liver transplantation (LT) in 5-26% of cirrhotic patients, and is known to affect post LT outcomes. Up to 31% of patients who are found to have PV...

Factors Associated with Higher Rates of Heterotopic Ossification after Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

May 12, 2020

Heterotopic Ossification (HO) refers to the formation of bone within soft tissue. Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) has been shown to be associated with development of HO. However, risk factors for H...

Tranexamic acid with a pre-operative suspension of anticoagulation decreases operative time and blood transfusion in the treatment of pelvic and acetabulum fractures.

May 12, 2020

The purpose was to evaluate the impact of intra-operative administration of tranexamic acid (TXA) and pre-operative discontinuation of prophylactic chemoprophylaxis in patients undergoing internal fix...

Superior mesenteric vein thrombosis following open right hemicolectomy and cholecystectomy. Casr report.

May 12, 2020

Superior mesenteric vein thrombosis (SMVT) is an uncommon but potentially life-threatening postoperative complication of colorectal surgery. Risk factors and prognosis of SMVT have been poorly describ...

Dose-Response Effect of Daily Rehabilitation Time on Functional Gain in Stroke Patients.

May 12, 2020

To demonstrate the effect of daily treatment time on recovery of functional outcomes and how each type of rehabilitation treatment influences the improvement of subgroups of functional outcomes in str...

Plasma Galectin-3 predicts deleterious vascular dysfunction affecting post-myocardial infarction patients: An explanatory study.

May 12, 2020

In a previous analysis of a post-myocardial infarction (MI) cohort, abnormally high systemic vascular resistances (SVR) were shown to be frequently revealed by MRI during the healing period, independe...

Percutaneous vs. surgical revascularization for patients with unprotected left main stenosis: a meta-analysis of 5 years follow-up RCTs.

May 12, 2020

5-year survival of patients with Unprotected left main (ULM) stenosis according to the choice of revascularization (percutaneous vs. surgical) remains to be defined.Randomized Controlled Trials (RTCs)...

Anti-inflammatory therapy for preventing stroke and other vascular events after ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack.

May 12, 2020

An increasing body of evidence suggests that inflammation plays a key role in stroke, in particular stroke of atherosclerotic origin. Anti-inflammatory medications are a widely heterogeneous group of ...

Central Venous Obstruction-Induced Intracranial Hypertension in Hemodialysis Patients: An Underrecognized Cause of Elevated Intracranial Pressure.

May 12, 2020

Central venous obstruction (stenosis or occlusion) is common in patients with renal failure on hemodialysis and may be associated with intracranial hypertension (IH). Causes include vein injury from a...

Relationship between stent expansion and post-PCI fractional flow reserve: a DOCTORS sub study.

May 12, 2020

To analyse the relationship between stent expansion criteria using optical coherence tomography (OCT) analysis and the final PCI functional result.This post-hoc analysis of the DOCTORS study included ...