Feb 28, 2020

The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have implemented national value-based programs that incentivize hospitals to deliver better cardiovascular care. However, it is unclear how hospitals re...

Feb 28, 2020

Recipients of kidneys from living donors who subsequently develop end-stage renal disease (ESRD) also have higher graft failure, suggesting the 2 donor kidneys share risk factors that could inform rec...

Feb 28, 2020

Black-white gaps in high-quality hospital use are documented, but the relative contributions of various factors are unclear. The objective of this study was to quantify the contributions of difference...

Feb 28, 2020

The purpose of this study was to investigate the presence of chronic diseases in patients with oral leukoplakia (OL) compared to controls matched for age group, gender, smoking and alcohol use.This ca...

Feb 25, 2020

Previous studies indicate that early revascularization appears to reduce mortality among patients with acute MI that is complicated by cardiogenic shock. Approximately 80% of MI patients with cardioge...

Feb 20, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 12, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Vaccination with zoster vaccine live (ZVL) is associated with a reduced risk for stroke among older adults, according to a study to be presented at the Ame...

Feb 19, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 19, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Prescription medications, especially analog insulin, can be found on Craigslist, according to a research letter published online Feb. 17 in JAMA Internal M...

Feb 18, 2020

Our knowledge on the burden of symptomatic and asymptomatic venous thromboembolism (VTE) in patients with cancer undergoing chemotherapy is limited. The aim of our study was to prospectively investiga...

Feb 18, 2020

Persistent Sciatic Vein (PSV) remains a rare condition with no associated malformative syndrome or concomitant Persistent Sciatic Artery (PSA). Very few case reports have been published. We report the...

Feb 18, 2020

Use of the direct anterior approach (DAA) for total hip arthroplasty (THA) has increased over the last decade. We sought to investigate whether (1) a difference exists in dislocation risk for DAA comp...

Feb 18, 2020

While there are many possible complications associated with total joint arthroplasty (TJA), venous thromboembolism (VTE) is both frequent and potentially severe. Despite this importance, there are inc...

Feb 18, 2020

Venous stenting is a common treatment for chronic peripheral venous disease. The most frequent complications caused by this technique are stent misplacement and intra-cardiac or intra-vascular stent m...

Feb 18, 2020

A greater understanding of the pathogenic mechanisms underpinning hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) has translated to improved medical care and better survival of affected individuals. Historically th...

Feb 18, 2020

Troponin values above the threshold established to diagnose acute myocardial infarction (AMI; >99 percentile) are commonly detected in patients with diagnoses other than AMI. The objective of this stu...

Feb 18, 2020

Plasma trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) is associated with coronary atherosclerotic plaque and cardiovascular disease risk, but associations between gut microbes in acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and post...

Feb 18, 2020

Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute, self-limited vasculitis. Coronary artery aneurysm (CAA) serves as a major contributor to the long-term prognosis of KD. In addition, acute KD usually also leads to s...

Feb 18, 2020

This study aims to investigate the protective effects of the Bauhinia championii (BC) against ischemia/reperfusion (I/R)-induced injury in an isolated heart model. Langendorff-perfused C57BL/6JNarl mi...

Feb 18, 2020

Recruitment and involvement of bone/blood-derived circulating fibrocytes (CF) in the promotion of fibrotic tissue remodelling processes have shown by several reports. However, their direct contributio...

Feb 18, 2020

In this study, we investigated whether local intramyocardial GATA4 overexpression affects the left ventricular (LV) remodelling process and the importance of phosphorylation at serine-105 (S105) for t...

Feb 18, 2020

To demonstrate how data-driven variability methods can be used to identify changes in disease recording in two English electronic health records databases between 2001 and 2015.Repeated cross-sectiona...