Alteration of Thyroid-Related Hormones within Normal Ranges and Early Functional Outcomes in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke by Xiao-yan Xu, Wen-yu Li, Xing-yue Hu

“…On univariate analysis, poor functional outcome was associated with presence of atrial fibrillation as the index event. Furthermore, score of National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS), total T4, free T4, and C-reactive protein at admission were significantly higher in patients with poor functional outcome, whereas free T3 and total T3 were significantly lower. …”
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Electrocoagulation-free strategy in minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass with hybrid revascularisation – a case report by Carla L. Schuering, Leonhard Wert, Johanna K. R. von Mackensen, Vanessa I. T. Zwaans, Julius Kaemmel, Roland Heck, Christoph T. Starck, Jörg Kempfert, Stephan Jacobs, Volkmar Falk, Alaa Abd El Al

“…The patient exhibited multiple morbidities including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, renal impairment, extracardiac arteriopathy, and multiple prior gastrointestinal surgeries, as well as a recent episode of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. A MIDCAB procedure without electrocoagulation was stipulated by the ENT specialist due to the patient’s cochlear implant. …”
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Diagnostic and prognostic significance of premature ventricular complexes in community and hospital-based participants: A scoping review. by Sukardi Suba, Kirsten E Fleischmann, Hildy Schell-Chaple, Priya Prasad, Gregory M Marcus, Xiao Hu, Michele M Pelter

“…Community-based longitudinal studies, which make up most of the literature, show that PVCs are associated with structural and coronary heart disease, lethal arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation, stroke, all-cause and cardiac mortality. …”
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A Neovascularized Left Atrial Mass by Rania Hammami, Leila Abid, Souad Mallek, Ilyes Kharrat, Mariem Ellouz, Mourad Hentati, Imed Frikha, Samir Kammoun

“…The electrocardiogram showed an atrial fibrillation. The transthoracic echocardiography revealed a severe mitral stenosis with a huge left atrial mass, confirmed through transesophageal echocardiography. …”
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Predictors of 7-day symptomatic hemorrhagic transformation in patients with acute ischemic stroke and proposal of a novel screening tool: A retrospective cohort study by Mehmet Muzaffer Islam, Cemrenur Uygun, Melike Delipoyraz, Merve Osoydan Satici, Servan Kurt, Enis Ademoglu, Serkan Emre Eroglu

“…Mechanical thrombectomy, atrial fibrillation, and diabetes mellitus were the independent predictors (P < 0.001, P = 0.003, P = 0.006, respectively). …”
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Clinical and epidemiological characterization of infection associated with ischemic stroke in patients over 60 years of age by Alexis Suárez Quesada, Alexis Álvarez Aliaga, Andrés José Quesada Vázquez, Ezequiel Ernesto López Espinosa, Liannys Lidia Naranjo Flores

“…When comparing both groups of patients, a significant difference was found regarding the history of heart failure, atrial fibrillation, and presence of neurogenic dysphagia. …”
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Risk Factors Associated with Cerebrovascular Diseases in Patients at the Tulcán Sur Health Center by María Verónica Aveiga Hidalgo, Dennis Mateo Lomas Males, Jordán Alexis Ruano Paspuel, Kevin Joel Salazar Estrada

“…The sociodemographic variables were analyzed: age and sex; clinical: presence or absence of high blood pressure, smoking, alcoholism, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, atrial fibrillation and sedentary lifestyle. The normality of the data distribution was analyzed using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. …”
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Prediction of ischemic stroke in patients with H-type hypertension based on biomarker by Ke Chen, Jianxun He, Lan Fu, Xiaohua Song, Ning Cao, Hui Yuan

“…The final model included 8 predictors: age, antihypertensive therapy, biomarkers (serum magnesium, serum potassium, proteinuria and hypersensitive C-reactive protein), and comorbidities (atrial fibrillation and hyperlipidemia). The optimal model, named A2BC ischemic stroke model, showed good discrimination and calibration ability for ischemic stroke with AUC of 0.91 and 0.87 in the internal and external validation cohorts. …”
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Age- and Gender-Specific Prevalence of Risk Factors in Patients with First-Ever Ischemic Stroke in China by Xiao-ying Yao, Yan Lin, Jie-li Geng, Ya-meng Sun, Ying Chen, Guo-wen Shi, Qun Xu, Yan-sheng Li

“…Female patients were globally older than male patients at stroke onset and having higher prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM), heart diseases, and atrial fibrillation (AF). However, females were less likely to drink heavily or smoke than males. …”
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Ultrasound diagnosis and monitoring of fetal tachyarrhythmias by Yu.А. Ivaniv, N.V. Lozynska

“…Drug treatment was effective in this group. Atrial fibrillation was second prevalent in our study, 4 cases (16 %) – dangerous arrhythmia, which in most fetuses caused circulatory failure, being combined with congenital heart defect or myocardial pathology. …”
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Use of wearable technology in cardiac monitoring after cryptogenic stroke or embolic stroke of undetermined source: a systematic review by Jamie SY Ho, Elizabeth SY Ho, Leonard LL Yeo, William KF Kong, Tony YW Li, Benjamin YQ Tan, Mark Y Chan, Vijay K Sharma, Kian-Keong Poh, Ching-Hui Sia

“…Introduction: Prolonged cardiac monitoring after cryptogenic stroke or embolic stroke of undetermined source (ESUS) is necessary to identify atrial fibrillation (AF) that requires anticoagulation. …”
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Diagnostic yield of chest and thumb ECG after cryptogenic stroke, Transient ECG Assessment in Stroke Evaluation (TEASE): an observational trial by Peter Magnusson, Adam Lyren, Gustav Mattsson

“…Objective In stroke survivors, atrial fibrillation (AF) is typically evaluated solely by short-term ECG monitoring in the stroke unit. …”
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Comparison of early warning scoring systems for predicting stroke occurrence among hospitalized patients: A study using smart clinical data warehouse. by Chulho Kim, Jae Jun Lee, Jong-Hee Sohn, Jong-Ho Kim, Dong-Ok Won, Sang-Hwa Lee

“…Parameters, such as prior malignancy, atrial fibrillation, AVPU response, heart rate, respiratory rate, and oxygen saturation, are also associated with stroke occurrence. …”
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Seizure aggravation by ampicillin/sulbactam in an elderly patient with status epilepticus by Kaoru Obata, Masako Kinoshita, Akiyo Shinde, Toshihiko Suenaga

“…He had been suffering from severe ulcerative colitis and infectious enteritis, delirium, atrial fibrillation and deep venous thrombosis. His cerebrospinal fluid analysis was unremarkable. …”
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Percutaneous Atrial Septal Defect Closure Using the Occlutech Figulla Device in Adults: More than 800 Patient-Years of Follow-Up by R. J. R. Snijder, L. E. Renes, D. Bosshardt, M. J. Suttorp, J. M. ten Berg, M. C. Post

“…During the long-term follow-up, 15 patients (9.8%) suffered new-onset atrial fibrillation and stroke occurred in 2.1%. There was no residual LRS at 12-month follow-up. …”
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Acute Renal Failure in a Patient with Rivaroxaban-Induced Hypersensitivity Syndrome: A Case Report with a Review of the Literature and of Pharmacovigilance Registries by Gisela Marcelino, Ould Maouloud Hemett, Eric Descombes

“…We report on the case of an 82-year-old patient who, two weeks after the prescription of rivaroxaban for atrial fibrillation, was hospitalized for a drug-induced hypersensitivity syndrome whose main clinical manifestations were low-grade fever with a petechial rash in the legs and acute renal failure (ARF). …”
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Massive Spontaneous Hemothorax as a Complication of Apixaban Treatment by M. Abu Hishmeh, P. Srivastava, Q. Lougheide, M. Srinivasan, S. Murthy

“…Apixaban is a DOAC used to prevent stroke or thromboembolic events in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation and to prevent recurrent venous thromboembolic disease. …”
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Ranolazine Induced Bradycardia, Renal Failure, and Hyperkalemia: A BRASH Syndrome Variant by Syed Arsalan Akhter Zaidi, Danial Shaikh, Muhammad Saad, Timothy J. Vittorio

“…Her medical comorbidities included hypertension, diabetes, CAD, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, hypothyroidism, and a history of cerebrovascular accident without any residual deficits. …”
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Risk Factors for Infection Associated with Ischemic Stroke in Patients over 60 Years of Age by Alexis Suárez Quesada, Alexis Álvarez Aliaga, Andrés José Quesada Vázquez, Eduardo René Valdés Ramos, Ezequiel Ernesto López Espinosa

“…<br /> <strong>Results:</strong> the binary logistic regression model, adjusted by the forward method, identified that the factors with independent influence are the NIHSS score &gt; 13 points (OR = 18.0; 95 % CI = 7.3 - 44.3; p= 0.000), neurodegenerative diseases (OR = 17.3; 95 % CI = 3.4 - 87.8; p= 0.001), dysphagia (OR = 6.2; 95% CI = 2.5 - 15 .3; p= 0.000) and atrial fibrillation (OR = 4.2; 95 % CI = 1.4 - 12.5; p= 0.008). …”
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Death risk prediction model for patients with non-traumatic intracerebral hemorrhage by Yidan Chen, Xuhui Liu, Mingmin Yan, Yue Wan

“…The importance of SHAP variables in the model ranked from high to low was: ’GCS motor’, ’Age’, ’GCS eyes’, ’Low density lipoprotein (LDL)’, ’ Albumin’, ’ Atrial fibrillation’, and ’Gender’. The XGBoost model demonstrated good predictive performance in both the validation and external validation datasets. …”
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