Cardiopulmonary bypass associated acute kidney injury: better understanding and better prevention by Xutao Yang, Li Zhu, Hong Pan, Yi Yang

“…Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is a common technique in cardiac surgery but is associated with acute kidney injury (AKI), which carries considerable morbidity and mortality. …”
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Therapeutic Strategies for High-Dose Vasopressor-Dependent Shock by Estevão Bassi, Marcelo Park, Luciano Cesar Pontes Azevedo

“…The assessment of fluid responsiveness and cardiac function can help to guide therapy, and inotropes may be used if hypoperfusion signs persist after initial resuscitation. …”
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Fever and Shock in a Child: How 'good' is a Good Blood Test? by Nevin Kollannoor Chinnan, Pragnyadipta Mishra, GD Puri

“…She developed ventricular fibrillation, which was cardioverted. After cardiac arrest, she was intubated and transferred to the intensive care unit. …”
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Transdermal patches: Design and current approaches to painless drug delivery by Al Hanbali Othman A., Khan Haji Muhammad Shoaib, Sarfraz Muhammad, Arafat Mosab, Ijaz Shakeel, Hameed Abdul

“…Although transdermal patches have medical applications for smoking cessation, pain relief, osteoporosis, contraception, motion sickness, angina pectoris, and cardiac disorders, advances in formulation development are ongoing to make transdermal patches capable of delivering more challenging drugs. …”
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Progenitor Cell Therapy to Treat Acute Myocardial Infarction: The Promise of High-Dose Autologous CD34+ Bone Marrow Mononuclear Cells by Joseph C. Poole, Arshed A. Quyyumi

“…Here, we show the case in which higher doses of CD34+ cells, which are more potent in terms of their migratory capacity, offer the best hope for preserving cardiac function following STEMI.…”
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Epicardial Fat: Physiological, Pathological, and Therapeutic Implications by Juan Salazar, Eliana Luzardo, José Carlos Mejías, Joselyn Rojas, Antonio Ferreira, José Ramón Rivas-Ríos, Valmore Bermúdez

“…These adipokines move from one compartment to another by either transcellular passing or diffusion, thus having the ability to regulate cardiac muscle activity, a phenomenon called vasocrine regulation. …”
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Key Cell Types and Biomarkers in Heart Failure Identified through Analysis of Single-Cell and Bulk RNA Sequencing Data by Ying Kong, Ning Yang, Zhiqing Luo, Ruiting Huang, Quhuan Li

“…Heart failure (HF) is a complex clinical syndrome resulting from various cardiac diseases and a significant medical issue worldwide. …”
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Calcium Signaling in the Ventricular Myocardium of the Goto-Kakizaki Type 2 Diabetic Rat by L. Al Kury, M. Smail, M. A. Qureshi, V. Sydorenko, A. Shmygol, M. Oz, J. Singh, F. C. Howarth

“…The GK rat is a widely used nonobese, nonhypertensive genetic model of T2DM which is characterized by insulin resistance, elevated blood glucose, alterations in blood lipid profile, and cardiac dysfunction.…”
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Case Report: Staged surgical management in ESRD: off-pump CABG followed by renal transplantation to enhance graft survival by Özge Çetinarslan, Davit Saba

“…For patients who are candidates for renal transplantation (RT), major surgeries such as coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) are associated with cardiac complications as well as higher rates of post-operative complications, including the need for large amounts of blood transfusion, worsening kidney function, infection, and graft rejection. …”
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Methanolic Root Extract of Rauwolfia serpentina Benth Improves the Glycemic, Antiatherogenic, and Cardioprotective Indices in Alloxan-Induced Diabetic Mice by Muhammad Bilal Azmi, Shamim A. Qureshi

“…Qualitatively MREt showed the presence of alkaloids, carbohydrates, flavonoids, glycosides, cardiac glycosides, phlobatannins, resins, saponins, steroids, tannins, and triterpenoids, while quantitatively extract was rich in total phenols. …”
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Multimodality Imaging in the Evaluation of Cardiovascular Manifestations of Malignancy by Laura Jiménez-Juan, Jessica Leen, Rachel M. Wald, Elsie T. Nguyen, Andrew T. Yan, Anish Kirpalani, Bernd J. Wintersperger, Andrew M. Crean

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Diagnosis of Turner syndrome after presenting with ischemic cardiomyopathy: A case report by Hui Zheng, Liting Guo, Yanwei Wei, Yunqiang Zhang, Yanfang Guan

“…We report a 44-year-old Chinese woman who was diagnosed with Turner syndrome owing to symptoms of ischemic cardiomyopathy and heart failure confirmed through cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, coronary angiography, and abnormal brain natriuretic peptide levels. …”
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In vivo trafficking of cancer-derived exosomes and their role in metastasis by Shih-Yen Wei, Sarah E. Shelton, Ying-Chieh Chen, Ke Huang

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The Effect of Alcoholic Extract of Anabasis syriaca Iljin on Biochemical and Histological Parameters in Rats by Suad M. Kloub, Saleem A. Banihani, Omar M. Atrooz, Wael M. Hananeh

“…In conclusion, ethanolic extract of Anabasis syriaca negatively affected the cardiac function of male rats and increased their serum glucose but reduced their serum triglycerides and low-density lipoprotein.…”
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Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation and Malignancy: A Case Report and Literature Review by Sumit Sohal, Akhilesh Thakur, Aleena Zia, Mina Sous, Daniela Trelles

“…However, the patient had cardiac arrest and expired on the same day of diagnosis.…”
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Calcium Transient and Sodium-Calcium Exchange Current in Human versus Rabbit Sinoatrial Node Pacemaker Cells by Arie O. Verkerk, Marcel M. G. J. van Borren, Ronald Wilders

“…In our contribution to this journal’s “Special Issue on Cardiac Electrophysiology,” we present a numerical reconstruction of If and INaCa in isolated rabbit and human SAN pacemaker cells based on experimental data on action potentials, If, and intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) that we have acquired from these cells. …”
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Emerging Comorbidities in Adult Asthma: Risks, Clinical Associations, and Mechanisms by Hannu Kankaanranta, Paula Kauppi, Leena E. Tuomisto, Pinja Ilmarinen

“…We review here the emerging comorbid conditions to asthma such as obesity, metabolic syndrome, diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2), and cardiac and psychiatric diseases. Their role as risk factors for incident asthma and whether they affect clinical asthma are evaluated. …”
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Challenges and Controversies in Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy by Barbara Lukomska, Luiza Stanaszek, Ewa Zuba-Surma, Pawel Legosz, Sylwia Sarzynska, Katarzyna Drela

“…In this review, we intend to address some problems and critically discuss the complex nature of MSCs in the context of their effective and safe applications in regenerative medicine in different diseases including graft versus host disease (GvHD) and cardiac, neurological, and orthopedic disorders.…”
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A Rare Manifestation of Asymptomatic Ebstein’s Anomaly with Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis by Carmel Moazez, Vicken Zeitjian, Christian Breburda, Ranjini Roy

“…Our patient is a 43-year-old male with a history of intravenous heroin abuse who presented to the emergency department with worsening shortness of breath and lower extremity edema. He denied any prior cardiac history. A transthoracic echo showed normal left ventricular function, but a large 2.2 × 2.1 cm echodensity on the septal leaflet of the tricuspid valve consistent with vegetation with severe tricuspid regurgitation and probable leaflet perforation. …”
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Adaptive Bayesian Iterative Transmission Reconstruction for Attenuation Correction in Myocardial Perfusion Imaging with SPECT/Slow-Rotation Low-Output CT Systems by Ji Chen, Ernest V. Garcia, Russell D. Folks, Aharon Peretz, James R. Galt

“…ABITR was tested with a cardiac phantom and 4 normal patients acquired by a GE Millennium VG/Hawkeye system. …”
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