Asystole after Orthotopic Lung Transplantation: Examining the Interaction of Cardiac Denervation and Dexmedetomidine by Christopher Allen-John Webb, Paul David Weyker, Brigid Colleen Flynn

“…In rare instances, orthotopic lung transplantation has been associated with disruption of autonomic innervation of the heart. The combination of this autonomic disruption and dexmedetomidine may be associated with severe bradycardia and/or asystole. …”
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Isolated Left Bundle Branch Block in a Toddler by Hitesh Agrawal, Frank Zimmerman, Zahra Naheed

“…Left bundle branch block (LBBB) usually occurs as a postoperative complication from surgical correction of congenital heart disease and can be associated with hypertensive heart disease, coronary artery disease, myocarditis, and aortic valvular disease. …”
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Noncompaction Cardiomyopathy with Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease by Sherif Ali Eltawansy, Andrea Bakos, John Checton

“…We report a case of a 53-year-old female presenting with a new-onset heart failure that was contributed secondary to noncompaction cardiomyopathy. …”
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ST Segment Elevation and Depressions in Supraventricular Tachycardia without Coronary Artery Disease by Fuad Habash, Arwa Albashaireh, Mohammed Eid Madmani, Hakan Paydak

“…ECG taken after conversion showed sinus rhythm at a rate of 65 and showed obvious persistence of ST depressions in majority of leads. Emergent left heart catheterization showed normal coronaries. Such ST depression is suggestive of global ischemia in small intracardiac vessels that cannot be evaluated by left heart catheterization.…”
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Adaptive Output Tracking of Driven Oscillators by Lili Diao, Martin Guay

“…Heart dynamics are usually unknown and require the application of real-time control technique because of the fatal nature of most cardiac arrhythmias. …”
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Access to Specialist Gastroenterology Care in Canada: The Practice Audit in Gastroenterology (PAGE) Wait Times Program by David Armstrong, Alan NG Barkun, Ying Chen, Sandra Daniels, Roger Hollingworth, Richard H Hunt, Desmond Leddin

“…BACKGROUND: Canadian wait time data are available for the treatment of cancer and heart disease, as well as for joint replacement, cataract surgery and diagnostic imaging procedures. …”
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Enchevêtrement, Reconversion et éphémérité : production des territoires de la collecte et du recyclage des déchets à Hà Nôi by Sylvie Fanchette

“…This process has resulted in the formation of a complex territorial entanglement of different functions and social categories.In order to address this process, this article examines the informal actors involved in the management of recyclable waste, their practices and strategies for accessing urban resources and establishing themselves at the heart of a rapidly urbanising city. The study hypothesises that the effectiveness of the waste collection and recycling system in Hanoi is based on the transposition of the intensive, multi-active, territorial, village-based production system into the heart of the city.…”
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“Living the Dying Inside”: Writing Violence in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy by Claudine Raynaud

“…“Buried,” violence is the repressed at the heart of trauma; it is part and parcel of memory. …”
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Current Diagnosis and Therapeutic Approach of Functional Mitral Regurgitation by Prima Almazini

“…This condition can contribute to heart failure progression and lead to a poor prognosis. …”
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Slippery Stents: A Case Report and Review of the Literature Describing Patients with May-Thurner Syndrome That Experienced Stent Migration by Ramy Mando, Priscilla Sigua-Arce, Lisa Spencer, Alexandra Halalau

“…Herein, we describe a case of stent migration from the left common iliac vein into the right heart, requiring open-heart surgery. We also completed a literature review of MTS patients with stent migration in hopes of raising awareness of this rare and life-threatening complication.…”
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Probability of Dying in Each of the Competing Risks under Bimorbid Condition by Kalpana Singh, Suddhendu Biswas

“…A Bayesian method has also been used for estimating probability of dying in heart disease and chronic kidney disease in the presence of diabetes, hypertension, and stroke or heart disease with chronic kidney disease. …”
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Psychocardiology, discipline is essential in these times by Teresa Rodríguez Rodríguez

“…It emphasizes the importance of giving the study and psychological interventions in heart disease and a gender focus to include the study of the family as the cradle of learning styles of life, social support agent, as well as subjects that involved directly in the complex network of heart disease by genetic markers. …”
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Aortic Valve Fibroelastoma Masquerading as Transient Ischaemic Attack by Penelope-Anne Gowland, Ragheb Hasan

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Inappropriate Defibrillator Shocks due to Mechanical Inference from an Investigational Device by Ying chi Yang, Thein Tun Aung, Abdul Wase

“…Cardiac contractility modulation (CCM) is an investigational device-based therapy to enhance ventricular contractility in systolic heart failure patients who are not candidates for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) owing to the absence of wide QRS complexes or who have failed to respond on CRT. …”
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Transcatheter Closure of Atrial Septal Defect in a Patient with Cor Triatriatum Sinister and Atrial Septal Defect by Wasana Hongkan, Kriangsak Thongchaiprasit, Kritvikrom Durongpisitkul

“…Cor triatriatum sinister is a rare congenital heart disease and rarely found in adults. The authors describe an asymptomatic 20-year old man presenting with heart murmur by check up. …”
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Echocardiographic Assessment of Ebstein's Anomaly in a 60-Year-Old Man by Elisabetta Palmerini, Duccio Federici, Alessia Del Pasqua, Sonia Bernazzali, Matteo Lisi, Mario Chiavarelli, Sergio Mondillo

“…The patient presented severe right heart failure and he was refered to our institution for heart transplantation.…”
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Clinical Practice Guidelines for Valvular Prostheses Dysfunction Treatment by Lázaro De la Cruz Avilés, Félix Rene Jorrín Román, Ernesto Falcón Pérez

“…This document includes the different classifications of artificial heart valves and different kinds of dysfunctions, and updates those aspects related with treatment stressing the appropriate behaviour when valve or prosthesis thrombosis occurs. …”
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Case Report: Leaflet thrombosis after transcatheter valve-in-valve aortic valve replacement in prosthetic valve endocarditis by Yuhan Zhou, Bo Fu, Nan Jiang, Zhigang Guo

“…The patient was deemed unsuitable for surgery by the heart team, following which she underwent transcatheter aortic valve-in-valve replacement. …”
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Geriatric Chest Imaging: When and How to Image the Elderly Lung, Age-Related Changes, and Common Pathologies by J. Gossner, R. Nau

“…Pathologies with a special relevance for the elderly patient are discussed in detail: pneumonia, aspiration pneumonia, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, the problem of overlapping heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pulmonary drug toxicity, incidental pulmonary embolism pulmonary nodules, and thoracic trauma.…”
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Where Are We Heading with Noninvasive Clinical Vascular Physiology? Why and How Should We Assess Endothelial Function? by Elizabeth A. Ellins, Julian P. J. Halcox

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