USG-guided bilateral sphenopalatine ganglion block: A useful anesthetic adjuvant for trans nasal trans sphenoidal pituitary surgery in a patient with severely low ejection fraction by Ravi Chaudhary, Yashwant S. Payal, Bishnupriya Mohapatra, Sony Sony, Shivam Shekhar

“…Minimal fluctuation in heart rate and blood pressure during the surgery was observed, which was supposedly attributed to sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG) block and lignocaine. …”
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Striking the Right Balance by Monica Verdoia, MD, PhD, Rasha Al-Bawardy, MD, Maria Antonieta Albanez A. de Medeiros Lopes, MD, Aaysha Cader, MD, MSc, Mayank Dalakoti, MD, Anas Merdad, MD, Yubrine Moraa Gachemba, MD, Hazel Mburu, MD, Sarah Rosanel, MD, Alan Sigal, MD

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Diagnosis and prognostic value of asymptomatic atrial fibrillation by U.P. Chernyaha-Royko, M.S. Sorokivskyy, A.V. Aker, O.J. Zharіnov

“…In patients with silent AF the occurrence of thromboembolic events and heart failure with long-term observation is at least not less than in symptomatic patients. …”
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Impact of Vein Wall Hyperelasticity and Blood Flow Turbulence on Hemodynamic Parameters in the Inferior Vena Cava with a Filter by Jafar Moradicheghamahi, Debkalpa Goswami

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A hybrid multiscale feature fusion model for enhanced cardiovascular arrhythmia detection by Md. Alamin Talukder

“…Cardiovascular arrhythmia, characterized by irregular heart rhythms, can lead to severe complications such as stroke and heart failure if not detected promptly. …”
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Reaching the Peripheral Regional Growth Centre by Jörgen Gren

“…More importantly, the centre-periphery concept is at the very heart of most national regional policies and aid schemes as well as being at the heart of the EU’s cohesion/convergence efforts undertaken in the framework of the Structural and cohesion funds. …”
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Latanoprost Induced Iris Pigment Epithelial and Ciliary Body Cyst Formation in Hypermetropic Eyes by Abhijit Anand Mohite, Rangarajan V. Prabhu, Thomas Ressiniotis

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The Impact of Listening to Quran Recitation during Pain-Inducing Procedure among Patients Receiving Mechanical Ventilation Support: An Interventional Study by Mohammad Rababa, Shatha Al-Sabbah, Audai Hayajneh

“…Conclusions: The findings showed significant improvement in the levels of pain and heart rate measures among intubated patients who are exposed to Quran recitation. …”
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Reaching the Peripheral Regional Growth Centre by Jörgen Gren

“…More importantly, the centre-periphery concept is at the very heart of most national regional policies and aid schemes as well as being at the heart of the EU’s cohesion/convergence efforts undertaken in the framework of the Structural and cohesion funds. …”
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Echocardiographic Assessment of Left Ventricular Function in Type 1 Gaucher's Disease by Mirta Koželj, Samo Zver, Vesna Zadnik

“…None of the GD patients had clinical signs of heart disease. In 3 of the 15 patients, we observed echocardiographic signs of aortic and mitral valve calcification. …”
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Mathematical model of the atrioventricular nodal double response tachycardia and double-fire pathology by Beata Jackowska-Zduniak, Urszula Foryś

“…A proposed model consisting of two coupled models (Hodgkin-Huxley and Yanagihara-Noma-Irisawa model) is considered as a description of the heart's action potential. System of ordinary differential equations is used to recreate pathological behaviour in the conducting heart's system such as double fire and the most common tachycardia: atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT). …”
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Acute Ventricular Wall Thickening: Sepsis, Thrombotic Microangiopathy, or Myocarditis? by Nicolas De Schryver, Delphine Hoton, Diego Castanares-Zapatero, Philippe Hantson

“…The patient died from acute heart failure. Macroscopic and microscopic examination of the heart suggested that the ventricular wall thickening was induced by oedematous changes, together with an excess of inflammatory cells. …”
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Minimally invasive mitral valve replacement redo surgery under ventricular fibrillation in a patient with dextrocardia and situs inversus totalis: a case report by Yu Han, Junnan Zheng, Pranav Nadapana, Yedija Bagaskara, Yilin Lai, Haige Zhao

“…Such cases are technically challenging when heart surgery is needed, especially re-do surgery. …”
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Successful pericardiotomy with drainage of the pericardial cavity in case of multimorbid patient by N.M. Seredyuk, A.V. Sudus, I.M. Budzan, S.M. Hrychynyuk, V.В. Tomyn, N.V. Rohiv, M.V. Bielinskyi, A.Ya. Vasylyshyn

“…With occurrence of pericardial effusion (pretamponade) and acute decompensated heart failure – cardiac tamponade an emergency care should include pericardiotomy with drainage of the pericardial cavity. …”
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A Case of Anterior Spinal Artery Syndrome Caused by Streptococcus mitis Endocarditis by Aria Mahtabfar, Hamoon Eshraghi, Melroy D’Souza, William Berrigan, Kathleen Casey

“…Infectious endocarditis (IE) typically occurs in the setting of intravenous drug use, prosthetic heart valves, or rheumatic heart disease. However, there are a few reports of IE occurring in the setting of immunosuppression secondary to cancer and/or chemotherapy. …”
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Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome Associated with Tacrolimus in Cardiac Transplantation by Julián Alejandro Rivillas, Stephania Galindo-Coral, Francisco Arias-Mora, Juan David Lopez-Ponce de Leon, Noel Alberto Florez-Alarcón, Pastor Olaya-Rojas, Juan Esteban Gomez-Mesa

“…Neurological complications occur between 50 and 70% of patients with heart transplantation, including cerebrovascular events, infections, seizures, encephalopathy, and neurotoxicity due to pharmacological immunosuppression. …”
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Immunotherapy for Metastatic Melanoma with Right Atrial Involvement in a Patient with Rheumatoid Arthritis by Zachary Benson, Sarah Gordon, Patricia Nicolato, Andrew Poklepovic

“…We present a case of a patient with rheumatoid arthritis that presented with obstructive heart failure secondary to melanoma that had metastasized to the right atrium. …”
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Histomorphologic and Immunohistochemical Characterization of a Cardiac Purkinjeoma in a Bearded Seal (Erignathus barbatus) by G. Krafsur, E. J. Ehrhart, J. Ramos-Vara, G. Mason, F. Sarren, B. Adams, C. Hanns, T. Spraker, C. Duncan

“…The most common cardiac tumors of heart muscle are rhabdomyomas, solitary or multiple benign tumors of striated muscle origin. …”
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A Review of Risk Factors and Predictors for Hemorrhagic Transformation in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke by Sneha E. Thomas, Noorine Plumber, Priyanka Venkatapathappa, Vasavi Gorantla

“…This review summarises how specific risk factors such as demographic factors like age, gender, and race/ethnicity, comorbidities including essential hypertension, atrial fibrillation, diabetes mellitus, congestive heart failure, and ischemic heart disease along with predictors like higher NIHSS score, larger infarction size, cardioembolic strokes, systolic blood pressure/pulse pressure variability, higher plasma glucose levels, and higher body temperature during ischemic event, lower low-density lipoprotein and total cholesterol, early ischemic changes on imaging modalities, and some rare causes make an individual more susceptible to developing HT. …”
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Targeting Endothelial Dysfunction in Vascular Complications Associated with Diabetes by Arpeeta Sharma, Pascal N. Bernatchez, Judy B. de Haan

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