Thermal strain and fluid balance during a 72-km military route march in a field setting by Beng Hoong Poon, Suriya Prakaash, Ya Shi Teo, Priscilla Weiping Fan, Jason Kai Wei Lee

“…Methods: 38 male soldiers (age range 18–23 years) participated in the study, as part of a cohort that marched for 72 km, with loads for about 26 hours. Core temperature and heart rate sensors were used for the duration of the march. …”
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Use of Oral Sodium Phosphate Colonic Lavage Solution by Canadian Colonoscopists: Pitfalls and Complications by A Chan, W Depew, S Vanner

“…Of respondents using NaP, 45% reported excluding its use in patients with renal failure, 30% with heart disease, 13% with incomplete bowel obstruction and 9% with extreme age. …”
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Life-Threatening Postpneumonectomy Syndrome Complicated with Right Aortic Arch after Left Pneumonectomy by Takahiro Karasaki, Makoto Tanaka

“…After complete adhesiolysis of the left thoracic cavity was performed, to maintain the proper mediastinal position, considering the emergent setting, an open wound thoracostomy was created and piles of gauze were inserted, mildly compressing the heart and the mediastinum to the right side. Thoracoplasty was performed three months later, and he was eventually discharged without any dressings needed. …”
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Mitral Valve Surgery in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Mahnoosh Foroughi, Manouchehr Hekmat, Mohsen Ghorbani, Hamid Ghaderi, Masoud Majidi, Mahmood Beheshti

“…Valvular heart disease is the common cardiac manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with a tendency for mitral valve regurgitation. …”
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Human Cardiospheres as a Source of Multipotent Stem and Progenitor Cells by Lucio Barile, Mihaela Gherghiceanu, Laurenţiu M. Popescu, Tiziano Moccetti, Giuseppe Vassalli

“…In preclinical studies, CS-derived cells (CDCs) delivered to infarcted hearts resulted in improved cardiac function. CDCs have been tested safely in an initial phase-1 clinical trial in patients after myocardial infarction. …”
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COVID-19: Impact in endothelial function and therapy with Mesenchymal Stromal Cells by Carla Longo de Freitas, Priscilla Yuri Okochi Alves da silva, Maria do Carmo Pinho Franco, Danilo Candido de Almeida

“…Further on flu symptoms, due to the high tropism of virus, has most been observed in the COVID-19 pathophysiology: acute heart failure, thromboembolism events, acute renal failure, neurological and liver damage, and multiple organ failure, with special attention to endothelial disfunction. …”
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Intraoperative Management of Large Resuscitation-Associated Venous Air Embolism (VAE) for Emergent Neurological Surgery by Ryan S. D’Souza, Arnoley S. Abcejo, Matthew A. Sexton

“…Computed tomography revealed significant air entrainment in the right heart and main pulmonary artery, with venous air tracking from the right axillary vein. …”
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Anderson–Fabry Disease: From Endothelial Dysfunction to Emerging Therapies by Cosimo A. Stamerra, Rita Del Pinto, Paolo di Giosia, Claudio Ferri, Amirhossein Sahebkar

“…The resulting syndrome is mainly characterized by early-onset autonomic neuropathy and life-threatening multiorgan involvement, including renal insufficiency, heart disease, and early stroke. The enzyme deficiency leads to tissue accumulation of the glycosphingolipid globotriaosylceramide and its analogues, but the mechanisms linking such accumulation to organ damage are only partially understood. …”
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Advancements in Cardiac Amyloidosis Treatment by Tarek Ziad Arabi, Abdullah Shaik, Ahmed El-Shaer, Omar Al Tamimi, Eman Nayaz Ahmed, Mohamad S. Alabdaljabar, Ahmad Safdar, Ali Mushtaq

“…Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) is a progressive condition resulting from the deposition of amyloid fibrils in the heart, which leads to severe diastolic dysfunction and restrictive cardiomyopathy. …”
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Adhesion of Porphyromonas gingivalis and Biofilm Formation on Different Types of Orthodontic Brackets by William Papaioannou, Athanasios Panagopoulos, Haroula Koletsi-Kounari, Efterpi Kontou, Margarita Makou

“…The brackets were anaerobically incubated for 3 days in Brain Heart Infusion Broth to form biofilms. Bacteria were quantified by trypsin treatment and enumeration of the total viable counts of bacteria recovered. …”
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Acute Coronary Syndrome as an Unusual Initial Presentation of T-Prolymphocytic Leukemia: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Christian R. Klein, Felix Jansen, Peter Brossart, Marco Herling, Georg Feldmann

“…The reported case shows that T-PLL can also become initially symptomatic through an acute coronary syndrome on the basis of complex coronary heart disease. Targeted antileukaemic therapy with the monoclonal antibody alemzutumab can lead to effective systemic cytoreduction without cardiac dysfunction even in patients with severe cardiac disease, although cases of cardiotoxicity have been reported.…”
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A study on kid mortality - focusing on nutritional myopathy by Silva Filipe, Pires Isabel

“…The findings revealed that 22.5 % of the necropsied goats exhibited lesions consistent with nutritional myopathy, macroscopically detectable in the limb and heart muscles. The study underscores the importance of implementing preventive measures and nutritional management practices to mitigate the occurrence of nutritional myopathy in goat herds in Trás-os-Montes.…”
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Acute and Chronic Fetal Anemia as a Result of Fetomaternal Hemorrhage by Paul Singh, Tara Swanson

“…On the other hand, signs of acute fetal decompensation such as deterioration of the fetal heart tracing, diminished biophysical score, decreased cord pH, and increased cord base deficit were noted. …”
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Case of Massive Hydatid Pulmonary Embolism Incidentally Discovered in a 56-Year-Old Woman with Posttraumatic Abdominal Pain by Zied Mezgar, Mariem Khrouf, Houda Ben Soltane, Mohamed Mahjoub, Sihem Ben Fredj, Amel Amara, Maher Jedidi, Samar Hajer Sandid, Sarra Zaouali, Ines Waz, Asma Saada, Mehdi Methamem

“…It arises from the rupture of a hydatid heart cyst or the opening of a visceral hydatid cyst into the venous circulation. …”
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An Update on Inflamm-Aging: Mechanisms, Prevention, and Treatment by Shijin Xia, Xinyan Zhang, Songbai Zheng, Ramin Khanabdali, Bill Kalionis, Junzhen Wu, Wenbin Wan, Xiantao Tai

“…Increasing evidence indicates that inflamm-aging is intensively associated with many aging diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, atherosclerosis, heart disease, type II diabetes, and cancer. Mounting studies have focused on the role of inflamm-aging in disease progression and many advances have been made in the last decade. …”
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Idiopathic REM Sleep Behavior Disorder: Implications for the Pathogenesis of Lewy Body Diseases by Tomoyuki Miyamoto, Masayuki Miyamoto, Masaoki Iwanami, Koichi Hirata

“…In idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder, reduced odor identification score and an early or delayed heart to mediastinum ratio on 123I-metaiodobenzylguanidine were almost as severe as in Parkinson's disease patients. …”
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Relationship between Periodontitis and Glaucoma: A Cross-Sectional Study by Soo Hwan Byun, Dae Myoung Yoo, Minwook Chang, Hyo Geun Choi, Seok Jin Hong

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Automatic Control System Design for Industrial Robots Based on Simulated Annealing and PID Algorithms by Yahong Zhu, Jian Jiao

“…The industry is at the heart of a country’s development, and robot automation is the key to this. …”
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Atherogenic index of plasma and cardiovascular outcomes in female patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: insights from a retrospective cohort study by Yan Jiang

“…This study found that there was an association between MACCEs and age (p < 0.001), heart failure history (p < 0.001), previous AMI (p = 0.013), and diabetes mellitus(p = 0.002), LVEF (p < 0.001), DBP (p = 0.027), creatinine (p = 0.002), UA (p = 0.021), ACEI treatment (p = 0.003), number of diseased vessels, target lesion location, CTO (p < 0.001), stent length (p < 0.001), and stent diameter (p < 0.001). …”
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A Novel Technique for Identifying Patients with ICU Needs Using Hemodynamic Features by A. Jalali, P. Ghorbanian, A. Ghaffari, C. Nataraj

“…For each of the healthy and patient subjects, the evaluated features are based on the analysis of existing differences between hemodynamic variables: Blood Pressure and Heart Rate. Further, four criteria from the hemodynamic variables are introduced: circle criterion, estimation error criterion, Poincare plot deviation, and autonomic response delay criterion. …”
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