Cerebral Microhemorrhages in Children With Congenital Heart Disease: Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Association With Neurodevelopmental Outcomes by Kristen N. Andersen, Sicong Yao, Brian R. White, Marin Jacobwitz, Jake Breimann, Jharna Jahnavi, Alexander Schmidt, Wesley B. Baker, Tiffany S. Ko, J. William Gaynor, Arastoo Vossough, Rui Xiao, Daniel J. Licht, Evelyn K. Shih

“…Methods and Results One hundred ninety‐two infants with congenital heart disease undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass were evaluated with pre‐ (n=183) and/or postoperative (n=162) magnetic resonance imaging. …”
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Retrospective Research of Clinical and Hematological Changes Occurred by del Nido Cardioplegia in the Perioperative Period of Patients who Underwent Open-Heart Surgery by Abdullah Özer, Başak Koçak, Mustafa Arslan, Elif Şimşek, Aycan Özdemirkan, Yusuf Ünal, Erkan İriz, Hakan Zor, Levent Oktar

“…This study aimed to examine the effects of DNC on the perioperative follow-up period after cardiac surgery. Methods: Preoperative and postoperative variations in selected biochemical and hematological variables of 71 patients who underwent open-heart surgery in our medical faculty between 2018 and 2020 were retrospectively examined and compared with normal values. …”
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Global, regional and national burdens of cardiovascular disease attributable to secondhand smoke from 1990–2019: an age-period-cohort analysis by Hong Jiang, Xiang-Bin Pan, Xiaofei Li, Shouzheng Wang, Zeye Liu, Peijian Wei, Fengwen Zhang, Wen-Bin Ou-yang

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The Australian and New Zealand Fontan Registry Quality of Life Study: Protocol for a population-based assessment of quality of life among people with a Fontan circulation, their pa... by Daniel S J Costa, Kim Dalziel, Yves d’Udekem, David S Winlaw, David S Celermajer, Nadine A Kasparian, Diana Zannino, Rachel Bishop, Kate H Marshall, Susan R Woolfenden, Gary F Sholler

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The clinical utility of tissue polymerase chain reaction, tissue culture and tissue histology in blood culture-negative infective endocarditis in South Africa – insights from the G... by W Endres, P Mkoko, M Ntsekhe

“…Twenty-seven of the 57 BCNIE patients underwent cardiac surgery and had tissue analysis performed. Tissue PCR identified an aetiological agent in 17/27 (63%) cases, with Bartonella spp. (12/27, 44%) being the most common organism. …”
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Home-Based Intervention Tool for Cardiac Telerehabilitation: Protocol for a Controlled Trial by Francesca Mastorci, Maria Francesca Lodovica Lazzeri, Lamia Ait-Ali, Paolo Marcheschi, Paola Quadrelli, Massimiliano Mariani, Rafik Margaryan, Wanda Pennè, Marco Savino, Giuseppe Prencipe, Alina Sirbu, Paolo Ferragina, Corrado Priami, Alessandro Tommasi, Cesare Zavattari, Pierluigi Festa, Stefano Dalmiani, Alessandro Pingitore

“…ObjectiveThe principal goal of the Innovation in Postoperative Rehabilitation Training and Monitoring (IPOTERI) study is to design, realize, and test a composite and integrated system for postsurgical rehabilitation therapies at home specialized for cardiac surgery. The secondary aims are to implement the system in a “real-life” context of postcardiac surgical rehabilitation, and to create a data set and a data collection methodology to prototype data analytics algorithms and artificial intelligence techniques for customizing the rehabilitation pathway. …”
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Log odds of positive lymph nodes compared to positive lymph node ratio and number of positive lymph nodes in prognostic modeling for patients with NSCLC undergoing lobectomy or tot... by Qiming Huang, Shai Chen, Zhenjie Li, Longren Wu, Dongliang Yu, Linmin Xiong

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Early sST2 Liberation after Implantation of a Left Ventricular Assist Device in Patients with Advanced Heart Failure by Philipp Opfermann, Elisabeth Simader, Alessia Felli, Michele Bevilacqua, Caroline Holaubek, Martin Dworschak, Mohamed Mouhieddine, Daniel Zimpfer, Jan Hendrik Ankersmit, Barbara Steinlechner

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A New Risk Prediction Model for the Assessment of Myocardial Injury in Elderly Patients Undergoing Non-Elective Surgery by Vedat Cicek, Mert Babaoglu, Faysal Saylik, Samet Yavuz, Ahmet Furkan Mazlum, Mahmut Salih Genc, Hatice Altinisik, Mustafa Oguz, Berke Cenktug Korucu, Mert Ilker Hayiroglu, Tufan Cinar, Ulas Bagci

“…<b>Aims:</b> This study aimed to create a new risk prediction model to assess myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery (MINS) in elderly patients and compare it with the RCRI, a well-known pre-operative risk prediction model. …”
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Long-term cardiovascular outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with systemic sclerosis by Kazutoshi Hirose, Hiroyuki Kiriyama, Shun Minatsuki, Yugo Nagae, Tatsuki Furusawa, Takashi Hiruma, Atsushi Kobayashi, Masataka Sato, Shinnosuke Sawano, Tatsuya Kamon, Hiroki Shinohara, Mizuki Miura, Akihito Saito, Satoshi Kodera, Junichi Ishida, Norifumi Takeda, Hiroyuki Morita, Issei Komuro, Norihiko Takeda

“…However, CAD tended to be more complex in the SSc group because of the higher proportion of left main trunk lesions (p = 0.100) and higher SYNergy between PCI with TAXUS™ and Cardiac Surgery (SYNTAX) score (p = 0.030). During a median follow-up of 3.1 years, patients with SSc more frequently experienced primary and secondary outcomes than those without SSc (both log-rank p < 0.02). …”
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Surgical treatment experience of seven cases of Berry syndrome by Zhangke Guo, Zhimin Li, Feng Tong, Song Bai, Xiaofeng Li

“…Methods From January 2013 to July 2024, a total of 7 children with Berry syndrome were admitted to the Cardiac Surgery Department of Beijing Children’s Hospital. …”
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Pluripotency-State-Dependent Role of Dax1 in Embryonic Stem Cells Self-Renewal by Jianrong He, Yuda Cheng, Yan Ruan, Jiali Wang, Yanping Tian, Jiaqi Wang, Fengsheng Wang, Chen Zhang, Yixiao Xu, Lianlian Liu, Meng Yu, Jiangjun Wang, Binyu Zhao, Yue Zhang, Yi Yang, Gaoke Liu, Wei Wu, Ping He, Jiaxiang Xiong, He Huang, Junlei Zhang, Rui Jian

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Outcomes of patients after successful left ventricular assist device explantation: a EUROMACS study by Christiaan F.J. Antonides, Felix Schoenrath, Theo M.M.H. deBy, Rahatullah Muslem, Kevin Veen, Yunus C. Yalcin, Ivan Netuka, Jan Gummert, Evgenij V. Potapov, Bart Meyns, Mustafa Özbaran, David Schibilsky, Kadir Caliskan, the EUROMACS investigators

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Pulmonary artery catheter use in acute myocardial infarction‐cardiogenic shock by Saraschandra Vallabhajosyula, Aditi Shankar, Sri Harsha Patlolla, Abhiram Prasad, Malcolm R. Bell, Jacob C. Jentzer, Shilpkumar Arora, Saarwaani Vallabhajosyula, Bernard J. Gersh, Allan S. Jaffe, David R. Holmes Jr, Shannon M. Dunlay, Gregory W. Barsness

“…Admissions with concomitant cardiac surgery or non‐AMI aetiology for cardiogenic shock were excluded. …”
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Donor-derived cell-free DNA for detection of acute rejection in lung transplant recipients by Gökce Yavuz, Julia Walter, Julia Walter, Kaimo Hirv, Oliver Wachter, Andrea Dick, Julia Kovacs, Julia Zimmermann, Olaf M. Glueck, Maximilian Vorstandlechner, Nicole Samm, Jan M. Fertmann, Wulf Sienel, Sebastian Michel, Sebastian Michel, Michael Irlbeck, Nikolaus Kneidinger, Nikolaus Kneidinger, Nikolaus Kneidinger, Rudolf Hatz, Rudolf Hatz, Jürgen Behr, Jürgen Behr, Christian Schneider, Christian Schneider, Teresa Kauke, Teresa Kauke

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Interpretation and classification of FBN1 variants associated with Marfan syndrome: consensus recommendations from the Clinical Genome Resource’s FBN1 variant curation expert panel... by A. Drackley, C. Somerville, P. Arnaud, L. M. Baudhuin, N. Hanna, M. L. Kluge, K. Kotzer, C. Boileau, L. Bronicki, B. Callewaert, A. Cecchi, H. Dietz, D. Guo, S. Harris, O. Jarinova, M. Lindsay, L. Little, B. Loeys, G. MacCarrick, J. Meester, D. Milewicz, T. Morisaki, H. Morisaki, D. Murdock, M. Renard, J. Richer, L. Robert, M. Ouzounian, L. Van Laer, J. De Backer, L. Muiño-Mosquera

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Integrating melt electrospinning writing and microfluidics to engineer a human cardiac microenvironment for high-fidelity drug screening by Yu-hong Wang, Ting-ting Liu, Yan-ping Guo, Shuo-ji Zhu, Zi-ming Liao, Jia-mei Song, Xi-ming Zhu, Jia-liang Liang, Moussa Ide Nasser, Nan-bo Liu, De-hua Chang, Ping Zhu, Bin Yao

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Longitudinal immunogenicity cohort study of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines across individuals with different immunocompromising conditions: heterogeneity in the immune response and cruci... by Annalisa Ciabattini, Elena Pettini, Fabio Fiorino, Jacopo Polvere, Simone Lucchesi, Chiara Coppola, Simone Costagli, Gabiria Pastore, Anna Sicuranza, Monica Tozzi, Arianna Lippi, Francesca Panza, Monica Bocchia, Alessandro Bucalossi, Guido Garosi, David Bennett, Sonia Bernazzali, Massimiliano Fabbiani, Francesca Montagnani, Donata Medaglini

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Multi-omics uncovers immune-modulatory molecules in plasma contributing to resistance exercise-ameliorated locomotor disability after incomplete spinal cord injury by Ren Zhou, Jibao Chen, Yunhan Tang, Chuijin Wei, Ping Yu, Xinmei Ding, Li’ao Zhu, Jiajia Yao, Zengqiang Ouyang, Jing Qiao, Shumin Xiong, Liaoliao Dong, Tong Yin, Haiqing Li, Ye Feng, Lin Cheng

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Inducible Fgf13 ablation alleviates cardiac fibrosis via regulation of microtubule stability by Wang Cong, Wang Xiangchong, Zhang Yiyi, Mi Yuan, Han Yanxue, Zhi Yaxin, Zhao Ran, Cui Nanqi, Ma Qianli, Zhang Huaxing, Xue Dazhong, Qiao Ruoyang, Han Jiabing, Yu Yulou, Li Jiaxuan, Shaiea Mohammed, Liu Demin, Gu Guoqiang, Wang Chuan

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