Cardiology General
Jul 19, 2021
Carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) measured in B-mode ultrasound image is an important indicator of Atherosclerosis disease. Speckle noise inherently present in ultrasounds' thereby degrades the vis...
Jul 19, 2021
The glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored transmembrane glycoprotein CD160 (cluster of differentiation 160) is a member of the immunoglobulin superfamily. Four isoforms, which differ by the presence o...
Jul 19, 2021
Recent developments of low-cost, compact acoustic sensors, advanced signal processing tools and powerful computational resources allow researchers design new scoring systems for acoustic detection of ...
Jul 19, 2021
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia in the adult general population. As populations age, the global burden of AF is expected to rise. AF is associated with stroke and thromboembolic...
Jul 19, 2021
Polypharmacy is known to be a risk factor for falls or bone fracture (F/F) in elderly patients. However, this relationship is not fully described in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVA...
Jul 19, 2021
The 2018 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Guideline on the Management of Blood Cholesterol recommends the use of risk-enhancing factor assessment and the selective use of coro...
Jul 15, 2021
Studies suggest that the direct factor Xa inhibitor rivaroxaban compared to warfarin reduces the risk of post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS) after deep vein thrombosis (DVT), but this has not been evaluate...
Jul 15, 2021
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a preventable cause of postoperative morbidity and mortality. The Caprini risk assessment model (CRAM) is a validated tool for estimating the risk for postoperative VTE...
Jul 15, 2021
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) following arthroscopic surgery is a rare condition, especially arthroscopic meniscal surgery. There have been three reported cases of DVT after arthroscopic meniscal procedu...
Jul 15, 2021
Acute myocardial infarction is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. It occurs when irreversible myocardial cell damage or death occurs. ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STE...
Jul 15, 2021
The accurate assay of cardiac troponin I (cTnI) is very important for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), it also can be employed as an effective index for screening serious patients in COVID-19 pandem...
Jul 15, 2021
In the acute phase of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), reperfusion ventricular arrhythmias such as ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation (Reperfusion VT/VF) resulting from reperfusion...
Jul 15, 2021
Non-selective betablockers (NSBB) exert beneficial effects beyond lowering hepatic venous pressure gradient (HVPG), which may be particularly relevant in patients with decompensated cirrhosis (DC), in...
Jul 15, 2021
Medulloblastoma (MDB) often causes signs and symptoms of elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) with imaging findings of mass lesion. Here, we report a case of MDB who initially presented with clinical ...
Jul 15, 2021
Cardiac output determination is essential in precapillary pulmonary hypertension. While direct Fick is the gold standard, thermodilution is commonly used as the reference method. Moving to noninvasive...
Jul 15, 2021
Prenatal cadmium exposure has been associated with adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes. However, previous findings are contradictory, and little is known about the potential modifiers of the cadmium-r...
Jul 15, 2021
Resveratrol improves insulin-resistance (IR) of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) mice. Low-expressed miR-23a-3p in diabetes patients regulates IR of adipocytes. Hence, we speculated the effect of R...
Jul 15, 2021
Diabetic retinopathy has seen tremendous progress in diagnostic tools and treatment in recent 15 years. Sight threatening stages like proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) and diabetic macular edem...
Jul 15, 2021
We assessed the utility of EndoPAT, a device that measures reactive hyperemia index (RHI) as a clinical screening tool for identifying low coronary flow reserve (CFR). Distinguishing normal from low C...
Jul 15, 2021
Extracellular vesicles (EV, exosomes and microvesicles -MV-) are 30-1000 nm particles surrounded by a phospholipid bilayer membrane that are released from almost all cell types through several pathwa...