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Cardiology General

Apelin and Visfatin Expression in Placental Tissue in Women With Preeclampsia and Overweight/Obesity.

May 29, 2023

Preeclampsia (PE) is a multifunctional and multisystem disorder. Several factors favor the development of PE, including obesity. Cytokines are also expressed in the placenta, predisposing to local alt...

Prevalence and Clinical Characteristics of Advanced Portal Vein Thrombosis in Cirrhotic Patients with Gastroesophageal Variceal Hemorrhage.

May 29, 2023

In cirrhotic patients, portal venous thrombosis (PVT) is common, but usually asymptomatic and found incidentally. The study aimed to investigate the prevalence and clinical characteristics of advanced...

Dual epigenetic changes in diabetes mellitus-associated pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma correlate with downregulation of E-cadherin and worsened prognosis.

May 29, 2023

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a risk factor for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) that promotes the promoter methylation of CDH1. It is still unclear whether DM can exert other epigenetic effects, s...

Back Up at the Pump? I Have a Gut Feeling About This: A Review of the Gastrointestinal Manifestations From Congestive Heart Failure.

May 29, 2023

Heart failure, which is a clinical syndrome characterized by the heart's inability to maintain adequate cardiac output, is known to affect various organ systems in the body due to its ischemic nature ...

Efficacy and safety of pemafibrate in patients with hypertriglyceridemia in clinical settings: A retrospective study.

May 29, 2023

Recently, pemafibrate, a selective PPARα modulator, has been developed as a treatment for hypertriglyceridemia and has attracted much attention. The aims of this study were to evaluate the efficacy a...

Development and validation of explainable machine-learning models for carotid atherosclerosis early screening.

May 29, 2023

Carotid atherosclerosis (CAS), an important factor in the development of stroke, is a major public health concern. The aim of this study was to establish and validate machine learning (ML) models for ...

Risk factors for atrial fibrillation in dogs with dilated cardiomyopathy.

May 29, 2023

Atrial fibrillation secondary to dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) frequently affects large-breed dogs. The aim of the present study was to identify risk factors for the development of atrial fibrillation ...

Determinants and impact of splanchnic vein thrombosis in acute pancreatitis.

May 22, 2023

Splanchnic vein thrombosis (SVT) is a well-recognised though little-studied complication in acute pancreatitis (AP). SVT risk factors, its clinical consequences and the role of anticoagulation (AC) th...

Isovolumetric Contraction as a Marker of Ventricular Performance in Patients with Afterload Mismatch.

May 22, 2023

The evaluation of myocardial contractility is essential in cardiology practice. The gold standard for this evaluation is the end-systolic elastance, but it the method involved is complex. Echocardiogr...

Effect of multicomponent rehabilitation on independence and functioning in elderly patients with common age-associated diseases: protocol for a scoping review (REHOLD).

May 22, 2023

Elderly patients after hospitalisation for acute events on account of age-related diseases (eg, joint or heart valve replacement surgery) are often characterised by a remarkably reduced functional hea...

Association Between Serum Homocysteine Concentration, Aneurysm Wall Inflammation, and Aneurysm Symptoms in Intracranial Fusiform Aneurysm.

May 22, 2023

The pathophysiology of fusiform intracranial aneurysm (FIA) involves inflammatory processes, and homocysteine plays a role in the inflammatory processes in the vessel wall. Moreover, aneurysm wall enh...

High Immunoglobulin-M Levels to Oxidation-Specific Epitopes Are Associated with Lower Risk of Acute Myocardial Infarction.

May 22, 2023

Immunoglobulin M (IgM) autoantibodies to oxidation-specific epitopes (OSE) can be present at birth and protect against atherosclerosis in experimental models. This study sought to determine whether hi...

Epidemiology of Acute Aortic Dissection in a General Population of 1.4 Million People in Japan - Shiga Stroke and Heart Attack Registry.

May 22, 2023

Acute aortic dissection (AAD) is a life-threatening cardiovascular disease, with a reported incidence rate ranging from 2.5 to 7.2 per 100,000 person-years in several population-based registries in We...

Unilateral hypertensive choroidopathy as a sole manifestation in malignant hypertension: optical coherence tomography angiography findings-case report.

May 22, 2023

We present a case of hypertensive choroidopathy due to malignant hypertension with exudative retinal detachment as a sole finding. We use OCT- angiography for initial diagnosis and report findings fro...

Gastrodin attenuates angiotensin II-induced vascular contraction and MLCK/p-MLC pathway activation.

May 22, 2023

Gastrodin has been used as antihypertension therapy in China; however, the mechanisms underlying the effects of gastrodin have yet to be fully elucidated.To explore the therapeutic efficiency of gastr...

Sex differences in cardiovascular risk, lifestyle, and psychological factors in patients with type 2 diabetes: the Fukuoka Diabetes Registry.

May 22, 2023

The excess risk of cardiovascular diseases associated with diabetes is greater in women than in men. The present study aimed to examine sex differences in the control of cardiovascular risk factors, a...

Senescent endothelial cells' response to the degradation of bioresorbable scaffold induces intimal dysfunction accelerating in-stent restenosis.

May 22, 2023

Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease is a typical age-related disease accompanied by stiffening arteries. We aimed to elucidate the influence of aged arteries on in-stent restenosis (ISR) after the ...

Coronary artery calcium quantification: comparison between filtered-back projection, hybrid iterative reconstruction, and deep learning reconstruction techniques.

May 22, 2023

The reference protocol for the quantification of coronary artery calcium (CAC) should be updated to meet the standards of modern imaging techniques.To assess the influence of filtered-back projection ...

Patient profiles in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: prevalence, characteristics, treatments and outcomes in a real-world heart failure population.

May 22, 2023

The Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology has recently proposed to optimize guidelines-directed medical treatments according to patient's profiles. Aim of this analysis was t...

Cachexia Suffers With Adverse Outcomes in Heart Failure

May 16, 2023

The following is the summary of "Cachexia Is Associated With Adverse Outcomes in Patients Admitted With Heart Failure," published in the January 2023 issue of Cardiovascular Disease by Alahmad et al. ...