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Cardiology General

Poor Sleep Quality Linked to Greater Food Intake, Worse Diet

Mar 19, 2020

THURSDAY, March 19, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Poor sleep quality is associated with increased food intake and a lower-quality diet among women, according to a study published in the Feb. 18 issue of th...

Bariatric Surgery Tied to Lower Long-Term Risk for Major CV Events

Mar 19, 2020

THURSDAY, March 19, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with obesity, bariatric surgery is associated with a lower long-term risk for major cardiovascular events and incident heart failure, accordin...

Digestive Symptoms Reported for About Half of COVID-19 Patients

Mar 19, 2020

THURSDAY, March 19, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) frequently have digestive symptoms, and those with digestive symptoms have a worse clinical outcome, according to...

Thirty-day outcomes in patients with proximal deep vein thrombosis who discontinued anticoagulant therapy prematurely.

Mar 18, 2020

In patients receiving anticoagulation for deep vein thrombosis (DVT), a variety of reasons (including active bleeding or high-risk for bleeding) may lead into premature discontinuation of therapy (pri...

Incidence of postsurgical pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis: a single-center retrospective observational study.

Mar 18, 2020

Cancer is a risk factor for perioperative deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism (DVT/PE). However, there is a paucity of data on non-malignant digestive diseases. In this study, we aimed to in...

Left Ovarian Vein Thrombosis Presenting as Acute Postpartum Pyelonephritis.

Mar 18, 2020

Ovarian Vein Thrombosis (OVT) is an extremely rare and uncommon thrombotic condition commonly attributed to the postpartum period. We report a case of a 30 yr old P2002 who presented with one day hist...

Incidence and Risk Factors for Venous Thromboembolism Following Craniotomy for Intracranial Tumors: A Cohort Study.

Mar 18, 2020

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a devastating complication of intracranial tumor surgery. The present study helps identify patients at the greatest risk of developing VTE.The aim of the study was to e...

Postoperative Venous Thromboembolism in Extramedullary Spinal Tumors.

Mar 18, 2020

Venous thromboembolism (VTE), including deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), is the fatal complication following spine surgery and the appropriate perioperative prophylaxis is still...

Effect of Isometric Resistance Training on Blood Pressure Values in a Group of Normotensive Participants: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Mar 18, 2020

Cardiovascular diseases cause 17 million deaths annually worldwide, of which hypertension is responsible for 9.4 million and a 7% burden of disease. High blood pressure is responsible for 45% of death...

[Clinical characteristics of patients with stroke code activation not identified by the emergency medical service].

Mar 18, 2020

To determine the sensitivity of stroke detection by emergency medical services (EMS) and to analyse the clinical characteristics of unidentified patients with suspected stroke.Prospective register of ...

[Trajan's decision: a neurological point of view].

Mar 18, 2020

The emperor of Rome, Marco Ulpio Trajano, ruled the Roman Empire from 98 to 117 AD, being the first emperor of non-Italian origin and the man who took the Empire to its maximum geographical extent. Tr...

The Correlation between E-Selectin S128R Gene Polymorphism and Ischemic Stroke in Chinese Population : A Meta-Analysis.

Mar 18, 2020

To perform a systematic review of the data collected from case-control studies conducted earlier to investigate the correlation between E-selectin S128R polymorphism and ischemic stroke (IS) risk amon...

Ability of FFR-CT to detect the absence of hemodynamically significant lesions in patients with high-risk NSTE-ACS admitted in the emergency department with chest pain, study design and rationale.

Mar 18, 2020

In the era of High-sensitive troponin (hs-Tn), up to 50% of patients with a mild increase of hs-Tn will finally have a normal invasive coronary angiogram. Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) derived from co...

Antithrombotic regimens for percutaneous coronary intervention of the left main coronary artery: The EXCEL trial.

Mar 18, 2020

We compared the effect of bivalirudin or heparin and use or nonuse of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors (GPI) on the outcome of left main coronary artery (LMCA) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)...

Comparison of post-stent optical coherence tomography findings among three subtypes of calcified culprit plaques in patients with acute coronary syndrome.

Mar 18, 2020

To compare the postprocedural optical coherence tomography (OCT) findings and in-hospital outcomes among the three subtypes of calcified plaques: eruptive calcified nodules, superficial calcific sheet...

Contribution of remnant cholesterol to cardiovascular risk.

Mar 18, 2020

Remnant cholesterol in triglyceride-rich lipoproteins is associated observationally and genetic, causally with increased risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in healthy individuals.We tested...

Physician decision-making and recommendations for stroke and myocardial infarction treatments in older adults with mild cognitive impairment.

Mar 18, 2020

Evidence suggests that older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) might not receive evidence-based treatments. We explored the impact of patient MCI on physician decision-making and recommendat...

Risk factors of the progression to hypertension and characteristics of natural history during progression: A national cohort study.

Mar 18, 2020

Although the high disease burden that results from cardiovascular complications of hypertension, factors related to the progression to hypertension in the normotensive population are not actively repo...

Complement: Bridging the innate and adaptive immune systems in sterile inflammation.

Mar 18, 2020

The complement system is a collection of soluble and membrane-bound proteins that together act as a powerful amplifier of the innate and adaptive immune systems. Although its role in infection is well...

Surgical correction for sinus venosus atrial septal defect with partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection in a dog.

Mar 18, 2020

A 5-year-old male toy poodle was referred for corrective surgery of an atrial septal defect. A sinus venosus-type atrial septal defect (ASD) with partial anomalous venous connection, suspected pulmona...