Adjuvant Therapy after Esophagectomy for Esophageal Cancer: Who Needs It?: Multi-institution Worldwide Observational Study by Siva Raja, MD, PhD, Thomas W. Rice, MD, Min Lu, PhD, Marie E. Semple, MPH, Andrew J. Toth, MS, Eugene H. Blackstone, MD, Sudish C. Murthy, MD, PhD, Usman Ahmad, MD, Michael McNamara, MD, Hemant Ishwaran, PhD, for the Worldwide Esophageal Cancer Collaboration Investigators

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Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: A Case Report by Ozlem Ece Basaran, Emine Seda Guvendag Guven, Suleyman Guven

“…It is characterized by symptoms of heart failure in the last months of gestation or within five months after birth. …”
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Regulatory Role of CD4+ T Cells in Myocarditis by Daria Vdovenko, Urs Eriksson

“…Due to a defect in clonal deletion of heart-reactive CD4+ T cells in the thymus of mice and humans, significant numbers of heart-specific autoreactive CD4+ T cells circulate in the blood. …”
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Surgical Management of an Aspergillus Empyema in a 3-Year-Old Child by Meletios A. Kanakis, Konstantinos Th. Petsios, Nicholas M. Giannopoulos, Dimitrios Bobos, Sofia Hatzianastasiou, Lida C. Sianidou, Achilleas Lioulias

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Comparison Of Bacillus anthracis Prepared Used Antigens As ‎Diagnostic kit Of Anthrax In Laboratoy Animals.‎ by Al- Jebouri A.J. ‎, Al- Khatib G.M.‎

“…The antigen gained from brain heart infusion gave a mean of erythema of 9.5 mm and 3.02 mm thickness. …”
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Infertility and Adenomyosis by Sebastiano Campo, Vincenzo Campo, Giuseppe Benagiano

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Artificial Intelligence-Based Real-Time Signal Sample and Analysis of Multiperson Dragon Boat Race in Complex Networks by Yu Li, Peihua Liu

“…In this paper, we use the wearable device with a triaxial accelerometer and heart rate sensor builtin to sample the speed signals and heart rate signals of athletes in various stages of men’s 1000m straight race. …”
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Bradycardia in severely dehydrated cholera patient: A case report by Ronak Shah

“…Initial electrocardiogram on the day of admission was sinus tachycardia with a heart rate of 120 beats/min on the third day of admission, the patient developed bradycardia with a heart rate of 45 beats/min with a prolonged QT interval of 550 msec (corrected QT interval 476 msec). …”
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Cardiovascular Disease, Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms; and the Renin Angiotensin System: Is There a MicroRNA Connection? by Terry S. Elton, Sarah E. Sansom, Mickey M. Martin

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The Impact of Obesity on the Cardiovascular System by Imre Csige, Dóra Ujvárosy, Zoltán Szabó, István Lőrincz, György Paragh, Mariann Harangi, Sándor Somodi

“…Obesity leads to structural and functional changes of the heart, which causes heart failure. The altered myocardial structure increases the risk of atrial fibrillation and sudden cardiac death. …”
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Oxidative and adhesive responses of human neutrophils to nitrovasodilators in vitro: the role of protein kinases by Magdalena Klink, Henryk Tchorzewski, Zofia Sulowska

“…Background: Sodium nitroprusside (SNP) and molsidomine are used in the treatment of coronary heart disease. Since the neutrophils play a pathological role in ischaemic heart disease, it is important to understand the direct action of nitrovasodilators on their function.…”
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Biochemical and Ultrastructural Cardiac Changes Induced by High-Fat Diet in Female and Male Prepubertal Rabbits by Dina Sibouakaz, Khira Othmani-Mecif, Amirouche Fernane, Abdennour Taghlit, Yasmina Benazzoug

“…Early HFD feeding induced overweight, oxidative stress, and metabolic alterations in plasma and the heart of prepubertal rabbits, whereas lipotoxicity has especially a negative impact on male plasma but affects more the female heart ultrastructure.…”
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The evaluation of the predictors of left ventricular systolic function improvement in patients with severe aortic stenosis after aortic valve replacement by N.V. Ponych, O.J. Zharinov, O.A. Yepanchintseva, B.M. Todurov

“…Group of patients with greater growth of LVEF was characterized by lower body mass index (p = 0.016), greater initial signs of heart failure (p = 0.019), less frequent arterial hypertension. …”
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Area deprivation and premature cardiovascular mortality: a nationwide population-based study in South Korea by Hyeon Chang Kim, Hokyou Lee, Eunji Kim, Donald Lloyd-Jones, Young Gyu Ko, Byoung Gwon Kim

“…Mortality rates for CVD and its subtypes, namely ischaemic heart diseases, other heart diseases and cerebrovascular diseases, in adults under 65 years were directly standardised by sex and age, referencing the total population structure. …”
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TUM4Health, a holistic student health promotion program. Screening of cardiovascular risk factors in university students by Klaus Christian Haggenmüller, Barbara Reiner, Renate Maria Oberhoffer, Nils Olson, Jochen Weil, Thorsten Schulz

“…According to ACCF/AHA classification, a percentage of 25.7% were clustered in Stage A, defined as having a high risk for heart failure (HF). Stage B consisted of participants with structural heart disease but without symptoms of HF, the prevalence of this group was 3.2%. …”
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Evaluation of Arterial Stiffness for Predicting Future Cardiovascular Events in Patients with ST Segment Elevation and Non-ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction by Oguz Akkus, Durmus Yildiray Sahin, Abdi Bozkurt, Kamil Nas, Kazım Serhan Ozcan, Miklós Illyés, Ferenc Molnár, Serafettin Demir, Mücahit Tüfenk, Esmeray Acarturk

“…However, PWV, heart rate, and ejection fraction were independent indicators at development of MACE. …”
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Distribution of Abdominal Obesity and Fitness Level in Overweight and Obese Korean Adults by Sue Kim, Ji-Young Kim, Duk-Chul Lee, Hye-Sun Lee, Ji-Won Lee, Justin Y. Jeon

“…Methods. 228 overweight and obese individuals were classified as either cardiorespiratory unfit or fit based on their recovery heart rate. Visceral adipose tissue (VAT), subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT), the visceral-to-subcutaneous adipose tissue ratio (VAT/SAT ratio), and cardiometabolic characteristics were analyzed to examine the relationship between recovery heart rate and abdominal adiposity components. …”
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Cardiac hydatid cyst: case series and review of the literature by Jingjie Wang, Xing Liu, Yierzhati Aizezi, Wenzhe Li, Jingnan Xu, Yi Wang, Xiangyou Yu

“…Echinococcal cysts were found in various cardiac locations, including the pericardium (5 patients), left ventricle (3 patients), right atrium (2 patients), and apical region of the heart (1 patient). Chest pain (6 patients) was a common symptom if the cyst was in the heart, dyspnea, or cough (3 patients) if it was in the lungs, and epilepsy (1 patient) if it was in the brain. …”
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Efficacy of Manual Hemostasis for Percutaneous Axillary Artery Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump Removal by Rajiv Tayal, Michael DiVita, Christoph W. Sossou, Alexis K. Okoh, Kelly Stelling, James M. McCabe, Amir Kaki, Najam Wasty, David A. Baran

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Cardiotoxicity of polystyrene nanoplastics and associated mechanism of myocardial cell injury in mice by Ziyi Xiong, Qiling Kong, Juan Hua, Qi Chen, Dandan Wang

“…The main target organs of NP accumulation are the lungs, liver, heart, and kidneys. However, compared with that for other target organs, research on the adverse effects of NPs on the heart is limited. …”
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