Rare Case of Rapidly Worsening REM Sleep Induced Bradycardia by Ayyappa S. Duba, Suneetha Jasty, Ankit Mahajan, Vijay Kodadhala, Raza Khan, Prithviraj Rai, Mohammad Ghazvini

“…Physical examination showed no cardiac or neurological abnormalities and initial EKG and neuroimaging were normal. …”
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Current Treatment of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: Should We Add Life to the Remaining Years or Add Years to the Remaining Life? by Jia Li, Peter Moritz Becher, Stefan Blankenberg, Dirk Westermann

“…Thus, novel pathophysiological mechanisms are under development, and other new viewpoints, such as multiple comorbidities resulting in increased non-cardiac deaths in patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction, were presented recently. …”
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Role of Multislice Computed Tomography and Local Contrast in the Diagnosis and Characterization of Choanal Atresia by Khaled Al-Noury, Alsaid Lotfy

“…One of these patients had several congenital abnormalities, including cardiac and renal deformities and a hypoplastic lateral semicircular canal. …”
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Patient-Specific Detection of Atrial Fibrillation in Segments of ECG Signals using Deep Neural Networks by Jeyson A. Castillo, Yenny C. Granados, Carlos Augusto Fajardo Ariza

“… Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia worldwide. It is associated with reduced quality of life and increases the risk of stroke and myocardial infarction. …”
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Significant Bradycardia in Critically Ill Patients Receiving Dexmedetomidine and Fentanyl by Channing Hui, Maria Cardinale, Balaji Yegneswaran

“…This is a case series of patients obtained from a mixed medical, surgical, and cardiac ICU in a community teaching hospital. Three intubated patients receiving fentanyl and dexmedetomidine infusion developed sudden bradycardia requiring intervention. …”
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Acute Hypoxic and Refractory Respiratory Failure Induced by an Underlying PFO: An Unusual Case of Platypnea Orthodeoxia and Transient Complication after Transcatheter Closure by Carlos Salazar, Romeo A. Majano

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Linking heartbeats with the cortical network dynamics involved in self-social touch distinction by Diego Candia-Rivera, Fabrizio de Vico Fallani, Rebecca Boehme, Paula C. Salamone

“…In our study encompassing self and social touch, we employed a method to quantify the distinct couplings of temporal patterns in cardiac sympathetic and parasympathetic activities with brain connectivity. …”
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In Vitro Antioxidant and Cytotoxic Activities of Some Marine Sponges Collected off Misamis Oriental Coast, Philippines by A. P. Rivera, M. M. Uy

“…Terpenoids are present only in Haliclona sp. and the cardiac glycosides, only in Aaptos suberitoides and Haliclona sp.…”
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Functionalized conductive polymer composites for tissue engineering and biomedical applications- a mini review by V. Gayathri, Tabrej Khan, M. Gowtham, R. Balan, Tamer A. Sebaey, Tamer A. Sebaey

“…Tissue engineering (TE) has emerged as a promising therapeutic strategy, employing artificial scaffolds to regenerate functional cardiac tissue and offering new hope for innovative treatment approaches. …”
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Autopsy Findings in Conjoined Twin with Single Heart and Single Liver by Kar Asaranti, Mohanty Pranati, Kar Tushar, Behera Jagadish, Behera Susmita, Nayak Amarendra

“…The autopsy done can help counsil the parents for further pregnancies and determine the prognosis depending upon the type of cardiac anomaly by Seo classification when detected antenatally. …”
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Central Venous Catheter-Related Tachycardia in the Newborn: Case Report and Literature Review by Aya Amer, Roland S. Broadbent, Liza Edmonds, Benjamin J. Wheeler

“…Malpositioned central catheters have been reported to induce cardiac tachyarrhythmia in adult populations and there are case reports within the neonatal population. …”
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A Case Report of Dextrocardia with Situs Inversus: A Rare Condition and Its Clinical Importance by Girma Deshimo, Haile Abebe, Getiye Damtew, Enguday Demeke, Seife Feleke

“…The clinical implications of SIT encompass challenges in diagnosis and procedures, potential congenital cardiac abnormalities, considerations for organ transplantation, and clinical decision-making, particularly in emergency scenarios. …”
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Prospect of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neural Crest Stem Cells in Clinical Application by Qian Zhu, Qiqi Lu, Rong Gao, Tong Cao

“…Then we focus on the clinical application potential of hESC/hiPSC-derived NCSCs on peripheral nerve injuries, corneal blindness, tooth regeneration, pathological melanogenesis, Hirschsprung disease, and cardiac repair and regeneration.…”
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Seizure as Presenting Symptom of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children by Eleonora S. D’Ambrosio, Stefanie Gauguet, Christine Miller, Erin McMahon, Christopher Driscoll, Mugdha Mohanty, Thomas Guggina

“…We describe the case of a 13-year-old girl who presented with a new-onset seizure and fever and subsequently developed severe cardiac dysfunction, coronary artery dilation, and shock due to the surprising diagnosis of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). …”
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Refractory Hepatic Hydrothorax: A Rare Complication of Systemic Sclerosis and Presinusoidal Portal Hypertension by Gary A. Abrams, Robert Chapman, Samuel R. W. Horton

“…Pulmonary hypertension, cardiac diastolic dysfunction, and chronic kidney disease were determined to be the causes of his refractory pleural effusions and ascites. …”
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Infant of a diabetic mother: clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment by Magdalena Suda-Całus, Katarzyna Dąbrowska, Ewa Gulczyńska

“…Infants of diabetic mothers (IDMs) because of mother’s diabetes are prone to developing complications and the most common include: large birth weight and complications resulting from it (i.e. birth injuries, perinatal asphyxia), cardiovascular and respiratory insufficiency (poor tolerance of labor stress), neonatal hypoglycemia and it’s complications, delayed lung maturity (fetal hyperinsulinism and the opposite function of insulin to cortisol), cardiomegaly and hypertrophy of the intraventricular septum (functional narrowing of the outflow of the left ventricle and cardiac failure), congenital malformations (most often of the central nervous system and heart). …”
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A Different Tecnique for Head Stuck in Breech Delivery by Gürhan Güney, Nihat İnan, Aytekin Tokmak, Muammer Doğan

“…Ultrasound at admission showed absent cardiac activity due to prolonged cord compression and a solid lesion 7 cm in diameter near the fetal head which was thought to be an intramural myoma was detected at the same time. …”
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Interarm Difference in Blood Pressure: Reproducibility and Association with Peripheral Vascular Disease by Jesper Mehlsen, Niels Wiinberg

“…Data were included from consecutive patients referred from their general practitioner to our vascular laboratory for possible PAD aged 50 years or older without known cardiac disease, renal disease, or diabetes mellitus. 824 patients (453 women) with mean age of 72 years (range: 50–101) were included. 491 patients had a diagnosis of hypertension and peripheral arterial disease (PAD) was present in 386 patients. …”
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Righting response and electrocardiographic evaluation of juvenile tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum) (Cuvier, 1818) exposed to immersion baths with different concentrations of bushy l... by Thaysa de Sousa Reis, Clarissa Araújo da Paz, Daniella Bastos de Araújo, Luciana Eiró Quirino, Yris da Silva Deiga, Tays Mata Câmara, Moisés Hamoy

“…Nevertheless, during the anesthetic recovery period, cardiac normality was restored at all tested concentrations, although more slowly at the highest concentration (140 μL.L-1). …”
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Invasive Listeriosis of Intracardiac Device by Prerna Sharma, Mohamed Yassin

“…A 74-year-old male with a past medical history of coronary artery disease, congestive cardiac failure, permanent atrial fibrillation status after nodal ablation, and placement of a biventricular pacemaker presented to the hospital with complaints of generalized fatigue. …”
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