Coronary Artery Fistula Diagnosed by Echocardiography during NSTEMI: Case Report and Review of Literature by Angelo Acitelli, Sabrina Bencivenga, Maria B. Giannico, Chiara Lanzillo, Luciano Maresca, Renata Petroni, Maria Penco, Leonardo Calò, Silvio Romano

“…Coronary artery fistulas are rare abnormal connections between a coronary artery and a cardiac chamber or a major vessel. Often, they are asymptomatic and the diagnosis is accidental. …”
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Early Effects of Long-Term Neurotoxic Lead Exposure in Copper Works Employees by Irina Böckelmann, Eberhard Pfister, Sabine Darius

“…This was attributed to vagus depression, which had already started in the prevailing situation of exposure and was reflected by diminished cardiac phase duration variability. Our results indicate that it is necessary to more critically choose the lead level standards in the air on the working area. …”
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Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia and Immune Thrombocytopenia: A Unique Presentation of Kawasaki Disease by Chloe Kupelian, Bindu Sathi, Deepika Singh

“…Timely administration of IVIG prevents and minimizes the risk of long term cardiac consequences. Hence a high index of suspicion should be maintained for this relatively common pediatric illness, even in absence of more commonly seen laboratory findings.…”
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COVID-19 in Cyanotic Congenital Heart Disease by Lama A Ammar, Joseph E Nassar, Fadi Bitar, Mariam Arabi

“…Due to the various types of heart abnormalities, CHD can have a wide range of symptoms. Cardiac lesions comprise a range of different types and accordingly varying severities. …”
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Mitral Stenosis Berat pada Penyakit Jantung Rematik by Cokorda Istri Padmi Suwari, Widyawati Desak Gede

“…Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) has high morbidity and mortality. Cardiac valve disorders after rheumatic fever are the leading cause of heart failure in children and young adults. …”
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Anterior and posterior tibial anesthetic block in diabetic foot surgery. by José Julio Ojeda González, Evangelina Dávila Cabo, Remberto González Enoa, Obdulio Rodríguez García

“…The variables measured were: age, weight, height, surgical time, type of surgery, cardiac frequency medium arterial pressure, and classification of patients according to the American Association of Anesthesiology All the patients were applied a scale for assessing pain in three different moments.…”
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The Ace of Spades: Reverse Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy in the Context of Angiographic Embolization of Recurrent Metastatic Serotonin-Positive Neuroendocrine Tumour of the Pancreas by Ian A. Mazzetti, Michael J. Marcaccio, Odette Boutross-Tadross, Omid Salehian, Catherine Demers

“…A 62-year-old woman undergoing embolization of recurrent neuroendocrine tumor, positive for serotonin, developed chest pain and bradycardia with lateral ST-segment depression. Cardiac biomarkers were elevated, and echocardiography revealed akinesis of all basal segments with a normally contracting apex. …”
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Correction of Iron Deficiency in the Cardiorenal Syndrome by Donald S. Silverberg, Dov Wexler, Adrian Iaina, Doron Schwartz

“…Some CHF studies of correction of the iron deficiency have shown an improvement in cardiac function and structure as well as in exercise capacity and quality of life. …”
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Prenatal Diagnosis of Triploidy. Case Report and Literature Review by Pedro Alí Díaz-Véliz Jiménez, Belkis del Carmen Vidal Hernández, Iliana González Santana

“…The diagnosis of abnormal cranial morphology was corroborated with absence of the cerebellar vermis, presence of the fourth ventricle, absence of cavum septum pellucidum, abnormal cardiac morphology, valves at the same level, and high ventricular septal defect. …”
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Role of PPARs in Trypanosoma cruzi Infection: Implications for Chagas Disease Therapy by Eugenia Hovsepian, Federico Penas, Gerardo A. Mirkin, Nora B. Goren

“…T. cruzi infection causes an intense inflammatory response in diverse tissues by triggering local expression of inflammatory mediators, which results in the upregulation of the levels of cytokines and chemokines, and important cardiac alterations in the host, being one of the most characteristic damages of Chagas disease. …”
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Overlapping Clinical Manifestations of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children with Other Endemic Diseases of Pakistan: A Case Report by Anam Zafar, Sughra Wahid, Asad Ullah, Hassan Mumtaz

“…But refractory condition and new-onset cardiac dysfunction prompted alternate diagnosis. …”
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Immunological Regulation of Fibrosis During Heart Failure: It Takes Two to Tango by Vinay Kumar, Shyam S. Bansal

“…Immuno-fibrotic networks and their protein mediators, such as cytokines and chemokines, have increasingly been appreciated for their critical role in cardiac healing and fibrosis during cardiomyopathy. …”
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Inotersen to Treat Polyneuropathy Associated with Hereditary Transthyretin (hATTR) Amyloidosis by Christopher Robinson, Cynthia Pham, Alec M. Zamarripa, Chase S. Dugay, Christopher A. Lee, Amnon A. Berger, Avi Landman, Elyse M. Cornett, Hisham Kassem, Alan D. Kaye, Ivan Urits, Omar Viswanath, Latha Ganti

“…There are both acquired and hereditary forms of this disease, and this review focuses on the latter hereditary transthyretin-mediated (hATTR). hATTR affects about 50,000 individuals globally and mostly appears as one of three syndromes - cardiac, polyneuropathy, and oculoleptomeningeal. …”
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Monitoring Heart Disease and Diabetes with Mobile Internet Communications by David Mulvaney, Bryan Woodward, Sekharjit Datta, Paul Harvey, Anoop Vyas, Bhaskar Thakker, Omar Farooq, Robert Istepanian

“…A telemedicine system is described for monitoring vital signs and general health indicators of patients with cardiac and diabetic conditions. Telemetry from wireless sensors and readings from other instruments are combined into a comprehensive set of measured patient parameters. …”
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Heart Rate Variability and Chronic Kidney Disease in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes by Wei Shi, Jing Zhang, Dan Chen, Xiaolei Chen, Wei Duan, Hongmei Zhang

“…To evaluate whether heart rate variability (HRV) as a measure of cardiac autonomic neuropathy (CAN) is associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in Chinese adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in China. 392 individuals of T2DM were entered in this study, all these subjects undertook the Holter electrocardiogram for 24 hours to get the HRV parameters. …”
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Quetiapine and Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome by Michael Chen, Hassaan Gomaa, Alonso Cortez-Resendiz, Christopher Martin, Andrew Francis, Alfredo Bellon

“…QTc prolongation is a side effect that requires monitoring in order to avoid more serious cardiac complications. One particular understudied area is the potential for antipsychotics to elicit electroconduction abnormalities in patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) Syndrome. …”
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Two Cases of Oculofaciocardiodental (OFCD) Syndrome due to X-Linked BCOR Mutations Presenting with Infantile Hemangiomas: Phenotypic Overlap with PHACE Syndrome by T. M. Morgan, J. M. Colazo, L. Duncan, R. Hamid, K. M. Joos

“…OFCD has phenotypic overlaps with PHACE syndrome (Posterior fossa anomalies, Hemangioma, Arterial anomalies, Cardiac defects, Eye anomalies). Infantile hemangiomas are a key diagnostic criterion for PHACE, but not for OFCD. …”
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Phytochemicals Screening in Four Solvent Extractions of Pulverized Witchweed (Striga asiatica) by G. F. Kontagora, N. M. Ibrahim

“…The study consistently identified alkaloids, cardiac glycosides, and triterpenes across all extracts. …”
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Esophageal Candidiasis: Current Updates by Abdimajid Ahmed Mohamed, Xin-liang Lu, Faycal Awaleh Mounmin

“…Another group includes those who used antibiotics frequently and those who have esophageal motility disorder (cardiac achalasia and scleroderma). Patients complained of pain on swallowing, difficulty swallowing, and pain behind the sternum. …”
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A case of silent myocardial ischemia associated with severe and prolonged hypoglycemia by Antonio Villa1, Donata Saltafossi2, Annalisa Re1, Silvia Garavaglia1

“…We diagnosed and treated this patient as a case of silent cardiac ischemia. Hypoglycemia is a common event in patients affected by insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. …”
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