A real-world Pharmacovigilance study of brodalumab based on the FDA adverse event reporting system by Ke He, Kaidi Zhao, Tingyi Yin, Meng Liu, Jiashu Liu, Wenqian Du, Xinyi Liu, Baochen Cheng, Dewu Zhang, Yan Zheng

“…Additionally, we found potential adverse reactions not noted on the drug’s label that exhibited positive signals, including depression, increased blood pressure, peripheral swelling, gait disturbance, inability to walk, stress, myocardial infarction, sepsis, uveitis, nephrolithiasis, and interstitial lung disease. …”
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Preparation of recombinant myoglobin and investigation of the liquid antigen stability for quality control materials by Yu-Hui Wang, Xi-Feng Sun, Chun-Xin Xu, Feng-Qiang Sun, Rong-Rong Wang, Xiao-Kun Bian, Zhan-Zhao Wang, Qiang Wu

“…Myoglobin (Mb) has been used as a biomarker for acute myocardial infarction. This study aimed to evaluate the stability of liquid Mb as quality control materials for Mb determination. …”
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Risk factors analysis and prediction model establishment of acute kidney injury after heart valve replacement in patients with normal renal function by Xiaofan Huang, Xiaofan Huang, Xiangyu Sun, Jiangang Song, Yongqiang Wang, Jindong Liu, Jindong Liu, Yu Zhang, Yu Zhang

“…Current smoker, hypertension, heart failure, previous myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular disease, CysC, and NT-proBNP were selected as independent risk factors for AKI. …”
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Timed Bromocriptine-QR Therapy Reduces Progression of Cardiovascular Disease and Dysglycemia in Subjects with Well-Controlled Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Bindu Chamarthi, J. Michael Gaziano, Lawrence Blonde, Aaron Vinik, Richard E. Scranton, Michael Ezrokhi, Dean Rutty, Anthony H. Cincotta

“…Treatment impact upon a prespecified composite CVD endpoint (first myocardial infarction, stroke, coronary revascularization, or hospitalization for angina/congestive heart failure) and the odds of losing glycemic control (HbA1c >7.0% after 52 weeks of therapy) were determined. …”
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Apolipoproteins A and B and PCSK9: Nontraditional Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Chronic Kidney Disease and in End-Stage Renal Disease by Cristiana-Elena Vlad, Liliana Foia, Roxana Popescu, Iuliu Ivanov, Mihaela Catalina Luca, Carmen Delianu, Vasilica Toma, Cristian Statescu, Ciprian Rezus, Laura Florea

“…The ApoB/ApoA-I ratio represents a strong predictor for coronary artery calcifications, cardiovascular mortality, and myocardial infarction in CKD/ESRD. Plasma levels of PCSK9 were not associated with cardiovascular events in CKD patients. …”
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Herpes zoster vaccine and the risk of stroke: a population-based cohort study using linked data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink by Fawziah Marra, Kathryn Richardson, Helen I McDonald, Yoon Kong Loke, Helen Mary Parretti

“…Secondary outcomes included stroke/transient ischaemic attack and myocardial infarction. The SCCS included incident strokes 12 months before or after herpes zoster vaccination to address healthy vaccinee bias.Results We recorded 16 281 and 30 430 incident strokes among vaccinated and unvaccinated historical patients, over a median of 2.7 and 5.0 years follow-up, respectively. …”
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Epicardially Placed Bioengineered Cardiomyocyte Xenograft in Immune-Competent Rat Model of Heart Failure by Ikeotunye Royal Chinyere, Pierce Bradley, Joshua Uhlorn, Joshua Eason, Saffie Mohran, Giuliana G. Repetti, Sherry Daugherty, Jen Watson Koevary, Steven Goldman, Jordan J. Lancaster

“…Human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) are under preclinical investigation as a cell-based therapy for heart failure post-myocardial infarction. In a previous study, tissue-engineered cardiac grafts were found to improve hosts’ cardiac electrical and mechanical functions. …”
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Clinical Validation of the Defining Characteristics of the Nursing Diagnosis ‘Activity Intolerance’ in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome by Diana Isabel Cáceres Rivera, Luz Mileyde Jaimes Rojas, Luisa Yaneth Cristancho Zambrano, Jennifer Vanesa Acosta Barón, Diana Ivonne Cañon Gómez, Lyda Z. Rojas

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Residual Dyslipidemia Leads to Unfavorable Outcomes in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention by Bin Que, Chunmei Wang, Hui Ai, Xinyong Zhang, Mei Wang, Shaoping Nie

“…For the follow-up study, major adverse cardiovascular cerebrovascular events (MACCE; including total death, cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, and revascularization) were documented. …”
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Elevated plasma trimethyllysine is associated with incident atrial fibrillation by Mads M Svenningsson, Gard FT Svingen, Per M Ueland, Gerhard Sulo, Espen Ø Bjørnestad, Eva R Pedersen, Indu Dhar, Dennis W. Nilsen, Ottar Nygård

“…TML has recently been linked to atherosclerosis, acute myocardial infarction and prevalent atrial fibrillation (AF). …”
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Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials: Efficacy and Safety of Colchicine for Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease by Elie Akl, Nazanin Sahami, Christopher Labos, Jacques Genest, Ali Zgheib, Nicolo Piazza, Sanjit Jolly

“…The primary outcome was the composite of cardiovascular (CV) death, myocardial infarction (MI), or stroke. Results. A total of 8 RCTs were included with a follow-up duration of ≥1 month, comprising a total of 12,151 patients. …”
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A Body‐Temperature‐Triggered In Situ Softening Peripheral Nerve Electrode for Chronic Robust Neuromodulation by Xueyang Ren, Wenjie Tang, Yuehui Yuan, Shisheng Chen, Fangzhou Lu, Jinyang Mao, Jidan Fan, Xufeng Wei, Ming Chu, Benhui Hu

“…Neuromodulation experiments demonstrate their potential clinical utility, including vagus nerve stimulation in rats to suppress seizures and alleviation of cardiac remodeling in a canine model of myocardial infarction.…”
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Clinical and angiographic profile of left main coronary artery disease in patients with chronic coronary syndrome: a retrospective study by Abdulsalam Mahmoud Algamal, Mahmoud Abdelbadie Salem, Ahmed Ibrahim Bedier, Mohammed Salah A. Hussein, Mona Malek Abdelrahim, Shady Hussein Elhusseiny

“…LMD versus non-LMD patients had a significantly higher prevalence of diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, and number of stenotic coronary segments and arteries, and nonsignificant differences regarding smoking, hypertension, previous myocardial infarction, and ejection fraction. Ostial LMD had a prevalence of 2%, a mean age of around 58 years and 21% were females. …”
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Strategies to Lower In-Hospital Mortality in STEMI Patients with Primary PCI: Analysing Two Years Data from a High-Volume Interventional Centre by Alexandru Burlacu, Grigore Tinica, Igor Nedelciuc, Paul Simion, Bogdan Artene, Adrian Covic

“…We aimed to analyse data from our high-volume interventional centre (>1000 primary percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) per year) searching for predictors of in-hospital mortality in acute myocardial infarction (MI) patients. Moreover, we looked for realistic strategies and interventions for lowering in-hospital mortality under the “5 percent threshold.” …”
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Cannabidiol Rescues Acute Hepatic Toxicity and Seizure Induced by Cocaine by Luciano Rezende Vilela, Lindisley Ferreira Gomides, Bruna Araújo David, Maísa Mota Antunes, Ariane Barros Diniz, Fabrício de Araújo Moreira, Gustavo Batista Menezes

“…The most severe and common complications are seizures, ischemic strokes, myocardial infarction, and acute liver injury. Here, we demonstrated that acute cocaine intoxication promoted seizure along with acute liver damage in mice, with intense inflammatory infiltrate. …”
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The Chromosome 9p21 CVD- and T2D-Associated Regions in a Norwegian Population (The HUNT2 Survey) by Øyvind Helgeland, Jens K. Hertel, Anders Molven, Helge Ræder, Carl G. P. Platou, Kristian Midthjell, Kristian Hveem, Ottar Nygård, Pål R. Njølstad, Stefan Johansson

“…By a population based cross-sectional case-control design, we genotyped 18 SNPs upstream of CDKN2B tagging 138 kb in and around two LD-blocks associated with CVD and T2D and investigated associations with T2D, angina pectoris (AP), myocardial infarction (MI), coronary heart disease (CHD; AP or AMI), and stroke using 5,564 subjects from HUNT2. …”
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Association of Side-Branch Treatment and Patient Factors in Left Anterior Descending Artery True Bifurcation Lesions: Analysis from the GRAND-DES Pooled Registry by Gyu Chul Oh, Kyung Woo Park, Jeehoon Kang, Jung-Kyu Han, Han-Mo Yang, Hyun-Jae Kang, Bon Kwon Koo, Hyo-Soo Kim

“…Target lesion failure (TLF), a composite of cardiac death, target vessel myocardial infarction, and target lesion revascularization, was assessed at 3 years. …”
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The efficacy and safety of peroperative statin treatment during coronary artery bypass grafting by I.V. Shklianka, O.J. Zharinov, К.O. Mikhaliev, O.A. Yepanchintseva, B.M. Todurov

“…In group one there were 4 cases of acute heart failure, one case of acute myocardial infarction, one acute respiratory failure and one significant blockade, which required the implantation of a pacemaker, while in other groups such cases were not recorded. …”
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The First Harmonic of Radial Pulse as an Early Predictor of Silent Coronary Artery Disease and Adverse Cardiac Events in Type 2 Diabetic Patients by Chi-Wei Chang, Kuo-meng Liao, Yi-Ting Chang, Sheng-Hung Wang, Ying-chun Chen, Gin-Chung Wang

“…By comparing the data of patients with C1 smaller than the first quartile and the patients with C1 greater than the third quartile, the hazard ratios were listed as follows: ACE (hazard ratio, 2.29; 95% CI, 1.55–3.37), heart failure (hazard ratio, 2.22; 95% CI, 1.21–4.09), myocardial infarction (hazard ratio, 2.44; 95% CI, 1.51–3.93), left ventricular dysfunction (Hazard ratio, 2.01; 95% CI, 0.86–4.70), and new symptoms and signs for coronary artery disease (hazard ratio, 2.03; 95% CI, 1.45–2.84). …”
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Association between triglyceride glucose index and adverse cardiovascular prognosis in patients with atrial fibrillation without diabetes: a retrospective cohort study by Aobo Gong, Ying Cao, Zexi Li, Wentao Li, Fanghui Li, Yao Tong, Xianjin Hu, Rui Zeng

“…The primary outcome, major adverse cardiovascular events, included cardiac death, stroke, and myocardial infarction. Kaplan–Meier curve, Cox proportional hazards regression model, and restricted cubic spline were employed to explore the relationship between the Tyg index and outcomes. …”
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