Multisystem Myotilinopathy, including Myopathy and Left Ventricular Noncompaction, due to the MYOT Variant c.179C>T by Josef Finsterer, Claudia Stöllberger, Matthias Hasun, Korbinian Riedhammer, Mathias Wagner

“…He also had arterial hypertension, diverticulosis, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, and a hiatal hernia with reflux esophagitis. …”
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Regeneration of Zebrafish CNS: Adult Neurogenesis by Sukla Ghosh, Subhra Prakash Hui

“…Zebrafish is an excellent animal model, which can repair several organs like damaged retina, severed spinal cord, injured brain and heart, and amputated fins. The focus of the present paper is on spinal cord regeneration in adult zebrafish. …”
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Self-directed flourishing: a conceptual meta-framework for dealing with the challenges of 21st-century learning and education by Eri Mountbatten-O’Malley, Thomas Howard Morris

“…The authors propose placing co-creation, courage and conceptual insight at the heart of educational policies and practices, which the authors suggest will nurture a dynamic, adaptable and ethical microculture for human flourishing in 21st-century education and beyond.…”
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Perception and treatment of melancholy in the writings of Hildegard of Bingen (c. 1098-1179) by Eglė Sakalauskaitë-Juodeikienë

“…Melancholy was interpreted in Hildegard’s medical texts as a heart and a brain disease which was caused by the overabundance of black bile produced in the spleen. …”
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Psychological and behavioral dimensions in cardiac arrest survivors and their families: A state-of-the-art review by Sachin Agarwal, Mette Kirstine Wagner, Marco Mion

“…Recent studies indicate that this distress can narrow patients’ focus, resulting in heightened awareness of cardiac signals—such as fluctuations in heart rate or blood pressure—that lead to constant monitoring and increased anxiety. …”
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Perioperative Risk: Short Review of Current Approach in Non Cardiac Surgery by Andreea Boghean, Cristian Guțu, Dorel Firescu

“…Quantification of surgical risk as low, intermediate, and high is useful in identifying the group of patients who are at risk of complications such as myocardial infarction, thrombosis, arrhythmias, heart failure, stroke or even death. Currently there are not enough studies that can differentiate the risk according to gender, race, elective versus emergency procedure, the value of cardiac biomarkers.…”
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Fever Associated with Gastrointestinal Shigellosis Unmasks Probable Brugada Syndrome by John N. Makaryus, Jennifer Verbsky, Scott Schwarz, David Slotwiner

“…The Brugada electrocardiographic pattern is characterized by right bundle branch block morphology and ST segment elevations in the right precordial leads with an absence of identifiable underlying structural heart disease. The syndrome is clinically significant since these patients are at a higher risk of developing malignant ventricular arrhythmias. …”
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Cardiac Progenitor Cells and the Interplay with Their Microenvironment by Arianna Mauretti, Sergio Spaans, Noortje A. M. Bax, Cecilia Sahlgren, Carlijn V. C. Bouten

“…The microenvironment plays a crucial role in the behavior of stem and progenitor cells. In the heart, cardiac progenitor cells (CPCs) reside in specific niches, characterized by key components that are altered in response to a myocardial infarction. …”
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Contextual Vulnerability Should Guide Fair Subject Selection in Xenotransplantation Clinical Trials by Gianna Strand

“…In a notable single-patient emergency use authorization, physician-investigators offered a genetically modified porcine heart to a living male recipient after denying him access to the waitlist for a human-donor heart, citing a history of non-compliance.…”
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Quantitative Influence Analysis of the Development Scale of Market Economy on the Level of Music Innovation by Yang Li, Qiuyi Zhang, Tianzhuo Gong

“…Today, the development of music has reached a relatively prosperous stage, which is closely related to the rapid development of the market economy. At the heart of the quantitative analysis is the study of associations between data. …”
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Pregnancy after Prosthetic Aortic Valve Replacement: How Do We Monitor Prosthetic Valvular Function during Pregnancy? by Nicole Sahasrabudhe, Nickolas Teigen, Diana S. Wolfe, Cynthia Taub

“…With modern medicine, many women after structural heart repair are deciding to experience pregnancy. …”
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Efficient Computation of Multiscale Entropy over Short Biomedical Time Series Based on Linear State-Space Models by Luca Faes, Alberto Porta, Michal Javorka, Giandomenico Nollo

“…Then, it is applied to the time series of heart period, arterial pressure, and respiration measured for healthy subjects monitored in resting conditions and during physiological stress. …”
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An Automatic System for Atrial Fibrillation by Using a CNN-LSTM Model by Fengying Ma, Jingyao Zhang, Wei Chen, Wei Liang, Wenjia Yang

“…Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common abnormal heart rhythm disease. Therefore, the development of an AF detection system is of great significance to detect critical illnesses. …”
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The Effect of Mechanical Overloading on Surface Roughness of the Coronary Arteries by Hanna E. Burton, Daniel M. Espino

“…Quantifying surface roughness in the coronary arteries aids in developing treatments for coronary heart disease. This study investigates the effect of extreme physiological loading on surface roughness, for example, due to a rupture of an artery. …”
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Comparison of the Development and Prognosis in Patients of Hypertriglyceridemic Pancreatitis with and without Diabetes by Wenjian Liao, Xiuxiu Niu, Wei Zhang, Xiaobing Liu

“…Electrocardiograms showed that patients of HTGPD had a significantly higher risk of heart ischemia than those of HTGP (p<0.05). Patients of HTGPD had higher APACHE II scores than those of HTGP (p<0.001). …”
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Revisiting 'Respiratory Function in Emphysema in Relation to Prognosis' by David V Bates

“…During the four years of the study, 17 patients died (actuarial expected - four) and 13 presented with signs of pulmonary heart failure. All postmortem examinations (n=9) showed advanced emphysema. …”
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Cut-off values of one-minute sit-to-stand test for determining physical performance in mild-post-COVID-19 individuals by Arunrat Srithawong, Puttipong Poncumhak, Tichanon Promsrisuk, Patchareeya Amput

“…The 1STST resulted in higher heart rate, systolic blood pressure, and dyspnea compared to the 6MWT, and showed a significant moderate correlation with the 6MWT (r = 0.532, *p* \< 0.0001) and weak correlations with leg strength and respiratory muscle strength…”
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Detection and Predictive Analysis of Drowsiness Using Non-contact Doppler Sensor by Chung Kyo In, Byung Chan Min

“…Previous research involved developing Doppler radar sensors and verifying their reliability, with over 95 % accuracy compared to traditional ECG devices for heart rate measurement. This study proposes a method utilizing existing Doppler radar sensors to detect and predict drowsiness. …”
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Modified Descemet’s Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty: The Use of Ophthalmic Viscoelastic Devices in Hypotonic Eyes That Had Undergone Glaucoma Filtering Surgeries by Itaru Oyakawa, Takahiko Hayashi, Toshiki Shimizu, Naoko Kato

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A disproportionality analysis of FDA adverse event reporting system events for misoprostol by Li Yang, Wenting Xu

“…The most common AEs were foetal exposure during delivery(n = 201), uterine tachysystole(n = 95), uterine rupture (n = 95), and heart rate decreased (n = 93). Although most AEs complied with the drug instruction, new AEs signals such as congenital aqueductal stenosis and congenital brain damage were also identified. …”
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