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Cardiology General

Cardiac Troponin Thresholds and Kinetics

Aug 25, 2021

This study states that Whilst the 99th percentile is the recommended diagnostic threshold for myocardial infarction, some guidelines also advocate the use of higher troponin thresholds to rule-in myoc...

Derivation and Validation of a 10-Year Risk Score

Aug 25, 2021

This study states that Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) can occur in patients who are ineligible for routine ultrasound screening. A simple AAA risk score was derived and compared to current guidelines...

Lay Stakeholders in Science

Aug 23, 2021

The aim of this study is to The American Heart Association (AHA) is the largest not-for-profit funder of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease research in the United States. It has supported rese...

Defective Flow-Migration Coupling

Aug 23, 2021

This studstates that Activin receptor-like kinase 1 (ALK1) is an endothelial transmembrane serine threonine kinase receptor for BMP family ligands that plays a critical role in cardiovascular developm...

Evidence-Based Practices in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory

Aug 23, 2021

This study states that Cardiac catheterization procedures have rapidly evolved and expanded in scope and techniques over the past few decades. However, although some practices have emerged based on ev...

Nationwide Trends of Catheter-Directed Therapy Utilization for Treatment of Lower Extremity Deep Vein Thrombosis in Medicare Beneficiaries.

Aug 23, 2021

To evaluate overall and provider specialty trends in the use of catheter-directed therapy (CDT) for lower extremity deep venous thrombosis (DVT) treatment in the Medicare population.Using data from th...

Resting heart rate as a surrogate for improvement in intermediate risk pulmonary embolus patients?

Aug 23, 2021

Pulmonary embolism (PE) response teams (PERT) have been developed to improve in-hospital mortality. Identifying intermediate risk PE patients that will progress despite anticoagulation is difficult, e...

A network meta-analysis of direct oral anticoagulants for portal vein thrombosis in cirrhosis.

Aug 23, 2021

Current guidelines have limited consensus on the approach to portal venous thrombosis (PVT) in cirrhotic patients. While there is rising interest in direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) use for PVT, cur...

Factors associated with poor prognosis in patients with atrial fibrillation: An emergency department perspective the EMERG-AF study.

Aug 23, 2021

We sought to identify the factors associated with a worse prognosis in Emergency Department (ED) patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), crucial information to guide management decisions.This is a sec...

Colchicine for Prevention of Atherothrombotic Events in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease: Review and Practical Approach for Clinicians.

Aug 23, 2021

A better understanding of the central role of inflammation in the development of coronary artery disease (CAD) has been the impetus for the evaluation of therapeutic strategies targeting the interleuk...

SGLT-2 inhibitors reduce the risk of cerebrovascular/cardiovascular outcomes and mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of retrospective cohort studies.

Aug 23, 2021

Despite Sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors have been associated with a reduced risk of heart failure in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), the effect observed for other car...

Association of metabolic syndrome with risk of cardiovascular disease mortality and all-cause mortality among Malaysian adults: a retrospective cohort study.

Aug 23, 2021

This study is aimed at determining the association between metabolic syndrome and risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality and all-cause mortality among Malaysian adults.Retrospective cohort stu...

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension: Do we diagnose and manage it appropriately in the light of current data?

Aug 23, 2021

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is an increase of intracranial pressure without a known cause, which usually presented with headache. This study aimed to evaluate the changing diagnosis and...

Left atrial reverse remodeling improves sinus restoration following mitral valve replacement: A case report.

Aug 23, 2021

Mitral stenosis is one of the most common abnormalities in rheumatic heart disease (RHD). These patients often experience atrial fibrillation, due to left atrial dilatation, causing a high risk of thr...

A novel enhanced enrichment glucose oxidase@ZIF-8 biomimetic strategy with 3-mercaptophenylboronic acid for highly efficient catalysis of glucose.

Aug 23, 2021

Herein, a glucose oxidase@ZIF-8 composite (3-MPBA/GOx@ZIF-8) with enhanced enrichment was enabled the rapid encapsulation of glucose oxidase (GOx) into microporous zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZI...

Associations of total blood mercury and blood methylmercury concentrations with diabetes in adults: An exposure-response analysis of 2005-2018 NHANES.

Aug 23, 2021

To examine the exposure-response relationship between mercury exposure and diabetes in adults, and to explore the possible effect modifications by selenium and omega-3 fatty acids.Biomarker data (tota...

Hyperdense middle cerebral artery sign and response to combination of mechanical Thrombectomy plus intravenous thrombolysis in acute stroke patients.

Aug 23, 2021

Combining intra-arterial mechanical thrombectomy (IAMT) and intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) has shown to have an excellent recanalization rate and better clinical outcome in acute ischemic stroke (AIS)...

Persistent circulating platelet and endothelial derived microparticle signature may explain on-going pro-thrombogenicity after acute coronary syndrome.

Aug 23, 2021

Microparticles (MPs) are submicron vesicles, released from activated, and apoptotic cells. MPs are elevated in the circulation of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and have pro-thrombotic po...

Apoptotic microparticles mediate the association between bisphenol A and subclinical atherosclerosis in a young population: A population-based study.

Aug 23, 2021

Bisphenol A (BPA) exposure is associated with atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases. The interactions between BPA, extracellular microparticles (MPs), and atherosclerosis are unknown. A total of 103...

[The Spanish Catheter Ablation Registry. 20th Official Report of the Heart Rhythm Association of the Spanish Society of Cardiology (2020)].

Aug 23, 2021

This article reports the results of the 2020 Spanish Catheter Ablation Registry, a year marked by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.Data were collected retrospectively through completion and return of a specifi...