Dyssynchronous heart failure models in canines: New insights into electrocardiographic, echocardiographic and histological features by Han Jin, Shengwen Yang, Hao Huang, Sijing Cheng, Pengkang He, Sixian Weng, Min Gu, Hongxia Niu, Wei Hua, Yiran Hu, Hui Li

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EmoHeart: Conveying Emotions in Second Life Based on Affect Sensing from Text by Alena Neviarouskaya, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka

“…Based on the result of the Affect Analysis Model, the developed EmoHeart (“object” in Second Life) triggers animations of avatar facial expressions and visualizes emotion by heart-shaped textures.…”
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New Horizon of Intervention in Congenital Heart Disease: AFR in a Complex Cyanotic Patient by Zahra Khajali, Homa Ghaderian, Ata Firoozi, Zahra Hosseini, Maryam Aliramezany

“…The disease is associated with several heart defects, and the treatment method is different based on the anatomy of the heart, but treatment methods are almost always palliative. …”
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What we should know about pediatric heart failure: children are not small adults by Ja-Kyoung Yoon

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Comparison of creatinine‐based methods for estimating glomerular filtration rate in patients with heart failure by Anna Jonsson, Ida Viklund, Andreas Jonsson, Fredrik Valham, Ellinor Bergdahl, Krister Lindmark, Helena Norberg

Subjects: “…Heart failure…”
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Myocardial Microvascular Physiology in Acute and Chronic Coronary Syndromes, Aortic Stenosis, and Heart Failure by Alf I. Larsen, William F. Fearon, Todd J. Anderson, Nico Pijls

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Size of Left Cardiac Chambers Correlates with Cerebral Microembolic Load in Open Heart Operations by Elena Z. Golukhova, Anna G. Polunina, Svetlana V. Zhuravleva, Natalia P. Lefterova, Alexey V. Begachev

“…The present results demonstrate that increased size of left heart chambers is an influential risk factor for elevated cerebral microembolic load during open heart operations. …”
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Impairment of myocardial perfusion correlates with heart failure severity in patients with non‐compaction cardiomyopathy by Andraz Cerar, Martina Jaklic, Sabina Frljak, Gregor Poglajen, Gregor Zemljic, Barbara Guzic Salobir, Maja Dolenc Novak, Monika Stalc, Rok Zbacnik, Mirta Kozelj

Subjects: “…Heart failure progression…”
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Cavernous hemangioma of the mitral valve – a rare heart tumor. А clinical case by R.M. Vitovsky, O.A. Pishchurin, M.M. Serdyuk, V.V. Isaienko, V.F. Onishchenko

Subjects: “…heart tumors…”
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Impact of adjunctive tolvaptan on sympathetic activity in acute heart failure with preserved ejection fraction by Shunsuke Tamaki, Takahisa Yamada, Takashi Morita, Yoshio Furukawa, Masato Kawasaki, Atsushi Kikuchi, Tsutomu Kawai, Masahiro Seo, Makoto Abe, Jun Nakamura, Kyoko Yamamoto, Kiyomi Kayama, Masatsugu Kawahira, Kazuya Tanabe, Kunpei Ueda, Takanari Kimura, Daisuke Sakamoto, Yuto Tamura, Takeshi Fujita, Masatake Fukunami

Subjects: “…Acute decompensated heart failure…”
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The importance of Naples prognostic score in predicting long-term mortality in heart failure patients by Sidar Şiyar Aydın, Selim Aydemir, Murat Özmen, Emrah Aksakal, İbrahim Saraç, Faruk Aydınyılmaz, Onur Altınkaya, Oğuzhan Birdal, İbrahim Halil Tanboğa

Subjects: “…Heart failure…”
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Central and Peripheral GABAA Receptor Regulation of the Heart Rate Depends on the Conscious State of the Animal by Bo Hjorth Bentzen, Morten Grunnet

“…GABAergic neurons in nucleus ambiguus hold the ability to control the activity of the parasympathetic vagus nerve that innervates the heart. Upon GABA activation the vagus nerve will be inhibited leaving less parasympathetic impact on the heart. …”
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Exploring Current Evidence on the Past, the Present, and the Future of the Heart Team: A Narrative Review by Alexandru Burlacu, Adrian Covic, Mircea Cinteza, Paula Madalina Lupu, Radu Deac, Grigore Tinica

“…Including healthcare professionals dealing with cardiovascular diseases, Heart Team is a concept/structure designed for selecting diagnostic strategies, facilitating therapeutic decisions, and improving cardiovascular outcomes in patients with complex heart pathologies, requiring input from different subspecialties and the necessity of a multidisciplinary approach. …”
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Patterns of Change in Cognitive Function over Six Months in Adults with Chronic Heart Failure by Barbara Riegel, Christopher S. Lee, Dale Glaser, Stephen T. Moelter

“…Few investigators have studied cognition over time in adults with heart failure (HF). A battery of neuropsychological tests was administered to 279 adults with chronic systolic or diastolic HF at baseline, three and six months. …”
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Integrated Bioinformatics Identifies FREM1 as a Diagnostic Gene Signature for Heart Failure by Chenyang Jiang, Weidong Jiang

“…This study is aimed at integrating bioinformatics and machine learning to determine novel diagnostic gene signals in the progression of heart failure disease. Methods. The heart failure microarray datasets and RNA-seq datasets have been downloaded from the public database. …”
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Retracted: Heart Rate Variability and Chronic Kidney Disease in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes by Applied Bionics and Biomechanics

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Changing Medium: The Contemporary Reception of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness in Two Graphic Novels by Nathalie Martinière

“…A number of contemporary authors/artists have chosen not to “write back” vehemently to what they find problematic in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, but to resort to a different medium and “rewrite” or adapt the novella as a graphic novel, as if the power of images could clarify the text for 21st-century readers. …”
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Role of Pulse Oximetry Screening for Detection of Life Threatening Congenital Heart Detects in Newborn by Aso Faeq Salih, Adnan Mohammed Hamawand, Riyadh Abd Aljabbar Sattar

Subjects: “…Pediatrics, Pulse Oximetry, Congenital Heart Defects, Newborn.…”
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Prevalence and prognostic value of ventricular conduction delay in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction by Anouk Achten, Jerremy Weerts, Johan van Koll, Mohammed Ghossein, Sanne G.J. Mourmans, Arantxa Barandiarán Aizpurua, Antonius M.W. van Stipdonk, Kevin Vernooy, Frits W. Prinzen, Hans-Peter Brunner-La Rocca, Christian Knackstedt, Vanessa P.M. van Empel

Subjects: “…Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction…”
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The Correlation between Gut Microbiota and Serum Metabolomic in Elderly Patients with Chronic Heart Failure by Zhenhua Wang, Zhaoling Cai, Markus W. Ferrari, Yilong Liu, Chengyi Li, Tianzhang Zhang, Guorong Lyu

“…Objective. Chronic heart failure (CHF) refers to a state of persistent heart failure that can be stable, deteriorated, or decompensated. …”
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