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Dietary supplementation of brown seaweed (Sargassum latifolium) alleviates the environmental heat stress-induced toxicity in male Barki sheep (Ovis aries).

May 05, 2020

Heat stress (HS) is the most potent environmental stressors for livestock in tropical and subtropical regions. HS induced splanchnic tissue hypoxia and intestinal oxidative damage, leading to endotoxe...

Honokiol inhibits carotid artery atherosclerotic plaque formation by suppressing inflammation and oxidative stress.

May 05, 2020

Honokiol is a natural active compound extracted from Chinese herbal medicine, . In this study, the role of honokiol in the development of carotid artery atherosclerotic lesions was evaluated in an Apo...

The association between normal lung function and peak oxygen uptake in patients with exercise intolerance and coronary artery disease.

May 05, 2020

In coronary artery disease (CAD), exercise intolerance with reduced oxygen uptake at peak exercise (VO2peak) is assumed to primarily reflect cardiovascular limitation. However, oxygen transport and ut...

The value of myocardial perfusion imaging in screening coronary artery disease before kidney transplantation.

May 05, 2020

The value of myocardial single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in pre-transplant evaluation of kidney transplant recipients is controversial. We assessed whether myocardial SPECT predicts ...

Adenosine usage during AF ablation in Europe and selected long-term findings from the ESC-EHRA EORP Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Long-Term registry.

May 05, 2020

Adenosine can be used to reveal dormant pulmonary vein (PV) conduction after PV isolation (PVI). This study presents a subanalysis of real-world 1-year follow-up data from the ESC-EHRA EORP Atrial Fib...

Adherence to Guidelines Regarding Anticoagulation and Risk Factors for Progression of Atrial Fibrillation in a Nurse-Led Clinic.

May 05, 2020

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the commonest cardiac arrhythmia associated with an increased risk of stroke. Evidence suggests that management in a specialty clinic improves clinical outcomes of patients...

Advances in Clinical Cardiology 2019: A Summary of Key Clinical Trials.

May 05, 2020

A large number of important clinical trials in cardiology were published or presented at major international conferences during 2019. This paper aims to offer a concise overview of these significant a...

[Possibilities for predicting of cardiac arrhythmias and conductivity disorders in former athletes.]

May 05, 2020

In order to analyze the relationship between the athletic qualification and syndrome of cardiac rhythm and conductivity disturbances in former athletes, a retrospective analysis of medical records of ...

Hearing loss and cognitive decline among older adults with atrial fibrillation: the SAGE-AF study.

May 05, 2020

To examine the association between hearing loss and cognitive function cross-sectionally and prospectively among older adults with atrial fibrillation (AF).Patients with AF ≥ 65-year-old ( = 1244) i...

A Preclinical Porcine Model of Portal Vein Thrombosis in Liver Cirrhosis.

May 01, 2020

This study aimed at presenting a novel method of developing a porcine model of portal vein thrombosis (PVT) in cirrhosis by intravenous administration of thrombin and insertion of a fibered coil. We f...

Pregnancy and Venous Thromboembolism: Risk Factors, Trends, Management, and Mortality.

May 01, 2020

Pregnancy is one of the major risk factors for the development of venous thromboembolism (VTE).To elucidate the circumstances surrounding pregnancy-induced deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary emb...

Platypnoea-orthodeoxia syndrome due to deformation of the patent foramen ovale caused by a dilated ascending aorta: a case report.

May 01, 2020

Platypnoea-orthodeoxia syndrome (POS) is characterized by dyspnoea and arterial desaturation in the sitting position. Although its pathophysiology is complex and still needed to be investigated, the d...

Cutaneous nocardiosis in a liver transplant recipient - case report.

May 01, 2020

Solid organ transplant recipients are specific group due to taken immunosuppressive agents. This can result in side effects including infections caused by rare opportunistic pathogens.A 64-year old wo...

Results of Polidocanol Endovenous Microfoam in clinical practice.

May 01, 2020

Initial Phase III clinical studies with polidocanol endovenous microfoam (PEM) have demonstrated safety and efficacy in the treatment of superficial venous reflux. In those studies, the primary outcom...

Management of patients with combined arterial hypertension and aortic valve stenosis: a consensus document from the Council on Hypertension and Council on Valvular Heart Disease of the European Society of Cardiology, the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI), the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI).

May 01, 2020

Aortic valve stenosis (AS) is the third most common cardiovascular disease. The prevalence of both AS and arterial hypertension increases with age, and the conditions therefore often co-exist. Co-exis...

Adenosine, Lidocaine, and Magnesium Support a High Flow, Hypotensive, Vasodilatory State With Improved Oxygen Delivery and Cerebral Protection in a Pig Model of Noncompressible Hemorrhage.

May 01, 2020

Noncompressible hemorrhage is the leading cause of preventable death in military and civilian trauma. Our aim was to examine the effect of adenosine, lidocaine, and magnesium (Mg; ALM) on cardiovascul...

Injectable Therapeutic Organoids Using Sacrificial Hydrogels.

May 01, 2020

Organoids are becoming widespread in drug-screening technologies but have been used sparingly for cell therapy as current approaches for producing self-organized cell clusters lack scalability or repr...

Incidence and clinical outcomes of stroke in ST-elevation myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock.

May 01, 2020

The authors sought to evaluate 10-year national trends, incidence and clinical outcomes of stroke in CS-STEMI.Stroke is a devastating complication among patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarctio...

Acute and long-term results of bipolar radiofrequency catheter ablation of refractory ventricular arrhythmias of deep intramural origin.

May 01, 2020

Successful bipolar radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA) of refractory ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) has been reported. However, the efficacy, safety, and long-term outcomes of bipolar RFCA of VAs a...

Ganoderic acid A alleviates myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury in rats by regulating JAK2/STAT3/NF-κB pathway.

May 01, 2020

This study aimed to investigate the protective effect of GanodericacidA (GA) on myocardial ischemia-reperfusion (MIR) injury. The myocardial injury model in rats was established by ligating left anter...