Hypereosinophilic Syndrome: A Case of Fatal Löffler Endocarditis by Mario Enrique Baltazares-Lipp, Juan Ignacio Soto-González, Carlos Manuel Aboitiz-Rivera, Héctor A. Carmona-Ruíz, Benito Sarabia Ortega, Ruben Blachman-Braun

“…Hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES) is a rare disorder with unknown global prevalence, barely reported in Hispanic population, and characterized by persistent eosinophilia in association with organ dysfunctions directly attributable to eosinophilic infiltration. Cardiac involvement may be present in 50 to 60% of the patients. …”
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Unravelling anti-cancer properties of solanaceous extracts using GC–MS and HPLC by Iqra Riaz, Yamin Bibi, Muhammad Arshad, Muhammad Sheeraz Ahmad, Manzer H. Siddiqui, Yawen Zeng, Abdul Qayyum

“…Abstract Cancer is a complex health issue that today’s medical science is dealing with, which has a mortality rate that is almost identical to that of cardiac disorders. Because of the adverse effects of the majority of the medications used in its therapy, managing it remains a major concern despite the availability of numerous remedies. …”
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Eribulin Provides a Remarkable Effect in Trabectedin-Resistant Myxoid Liposarcoma by Hironari Tamiya, Hideaki Sabe, Katsunari Yamashita, Yoshinori Imura, Toru Wakamatsu, Satoshi Takenaka

“…Adriamycin was unusable due to cardiac dysfunction, so trabectedin was administered; however, the tumors progressed. …”
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Aquatic cycling-What do we know? A scoping review on head-out aquatic cycling. by Stefanie Rewald, Ilse Mesters, Antoine F Lenssen, Jens Bansi, Johan Lambeck, Rob A de Bie, Benjamin Waller

“…Cardiovascular parameters were investigated by many of the studies with the results suggesting that the cardiac demand of aquatic cycling seems similar to land-based cycling. …”
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Orthopaedic Aspects of Marfan Syndrome: The Experience of a Referral Center for Diagnosis of Rare Diseases by Fernando De Maio, Alessandro Fichera, Vincenzo De Luna, Federico Mancini, Roberto Caterini

“…Fifty-four patients (37%) underwent cardiac surgery and 11 of them received emergent surgery for acute aortic dissection. …”
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N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide as a predictive marker of the outcomes of fibrinolytic therapy in acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction by Amit Kumar, Shweta Tanwar, Rajesh Chetiwal

“…The most prevalent adverse event was cardiac failure. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis indicated a robust association between NT-proBNP and in-hospital mortality. …”
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A Rare Case of Pneumonia Caused by Shewanella putrefaciens by Rajshree Patel, Albin Abraham, Johnson Thomas, Wanqing Zhi, Shadab Ahmed, Janice Verley

“…We present a case of 63-year-old male who was presented to emergency room status after cardiac arrest, fell into sea water face down. On the second day of hospitalization, he was diagnosed to have pneumonia based on the clinical, radiological, and laboratory findings. …”
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Recurrent Multivalvular Staphylococcus Lugdunensis Endocarditis Causing Complete Heart Block after TAVR by Preeti Singhal, Somsupha Kanjanauthai, Wilson Kwan

“…While awaiting surgery, the patient developed cardiac arrest; she was resuscitated and taken to surgery emergently. …”
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Critical Management of Haemodynamically Unstable Acute Pulmonary Embolism in COVID-19 by Eka Adip Pradipta, Vienna Rossimarina, Indira Kemalasari, Siska Suridanda Danny

“…In the isolation ward, he had a cardiac arrest, and bedside echocardiography showed a fresh thrombus had developed in the right atria with signs of acute right ventricular dysfunction. …”
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The Impact of Bioactive Lipids on Cardiovascular Development by Alexander Kleger, Stefan Liebau, Qiong Lin, Götz von Wichert, Thomas Seufferlein

“…S1P acts on hematopoietic progenitor cells as a chemotactic factor and has also been found to be critical for cardiac and skeletal muscle regeneration. Furthermore, S1P promotes cardiogenesis and similarly activates Erk signalling in mouse ES cells. …”
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Progression of Heart Failure in People with Type 2 Diabetes in Germany: An Analysis Using German Health Insurance Claims Data by Keni Cheng-Siang Lee, Tobias Wagner, Adee Kennedy, Michael Wilke

“…Follow-up criteria included major adverse cardiac events (MACEs), EF category, and mortality. …”
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Paving the Way for Integrated Advanced Heart Failure and Adult Congenital Heart Disease Training by William H. Marshall V., MD, Ryan D. Byrne, MD, Andrew Civitello, MD, William J. Dreyer, MD, Peter R. Ermis, MD, Brent C. Lampert, DO, Lauren T. Lastinger, MD, Deipanjan Nandi, MD, Joseph A. Spinner, MD, Curt J. Daniels, MD

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Hemorrhage from Extra-Antral Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia in a Patient with Duodenal Heterotopic Gastric Mucosa by John Gubatan, Nathan Raines, Hasan Khosravi, Tracy L. Challies, Tyler M. Berzin

“…We report a case of a 60-year-old woman with a prior history of GAVE who developed melena and symptomatic anemia during her hospitalization following cardiac catheterization. Initial EGD demonstrated nonbleeding antral GAVE and a newly discovered duodenal mass. …”
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Association of SUDOSCAN Values with Vibration Perception Threshold in Chinese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Xiaoming Zhu, Fei Mao, Siying Liu, Hangping Zheng, Bin Lu, Yiming Li

“…In this study, we determine to detect the possible relationship between vibration perception threshold (VPT) and cardiac autonomic neuropathy (CAN) values produced by SUDOSCAN. …”
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Gut microbiota and atrial cardiomyopathy by Tingting Sun, Beibei Song, Bo Li

“…Recent research has highlighted the critical role of the gut microbiota in the pathogenesis of atrial cardiomyopathy, and this is consistent with the gut–heart axis having major implications for cardiac health. The aim of this work is to bridge the knowledge gap regarding the interactions between the gut microbiota and atrial cardiomyopathy, with a particular focus on elucidating the mechanisms by which gut dysbiosis may induce atrial remodeling and dysfunction. …”
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The effects of adding a six-month Pilates exercise program to three months of traditional community-based pulmonary rehabilitation in individuals with COPD: A prospective cohort st... by Marisela Barbosa, Cristina A. de Melo, Rui Torres

“…Secondary outcomes included cardiac, physical function, and exacerbation episodes…”
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Systemic Sclerosis in Males—Deciphering the Enigma of Erasmus Syndrome by Reena K. Sharma, Mudita Gupta

“…Gastrointestinal and cardiac system involvement was seen in 5 (41.6%) and 4 (33.3%) patients, respectively. …”
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Hepatic and Renal Failure after Anterior Myocardial Infarction Induced Apical Ventricular Septal Defect by Dirk Lossnitzer, Vedat Schwenger, Stephanie Lehrke, Evangelos Giannitsis, Martin Zeier, Hugo A. Katus, Henning Steen

“…We report the case of a 68-year-old man suffering from incremental hepatic and renal failure one month after anterior myocardial infarction. Cardiac MRI showed a pronounced apical post-AMI aneurysm, a moderate to severe mitral and tricuspid regurgitation as well as a hemodynamically highly significant 12 mm apical ventricular septal defect with a left-to-right ventricular shunt of almost 63% as the underlying cause. …”
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Association between Platelet to Neutrophil Ratio (PNR) and Clinical Outcomes in STEMI Patients after Successful pPCI: A Secondary Analysis Based on a Cohort Study by Hao Wang, Xiaochun Qing, Hua Wang, Yunfei Gu

“…After adjusting for age, sex, anterior wall myocardial infarction (MI), history of MI, apelin-12, apelin-12 change rate, left ventricular end-diastolic diameter, peak cardiac troponin I, pathological Q wave, Killip classification grade, fasting blood glucose, albumin, GENSINI score, and estimated glomerular filtration rate, a nonlinear relationship was found between the PNR and MACEs in the included cohort. …”
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Laparoscopic-Assisted Recipient Nephrectomy and Recipient Kidney Procurement during Orthotopic Living-Related Kidney Transplantation by Dimitri Mikhalski, Karl Martin Wissing, Renaud Bollens, Daniel Abramowicz, Vincent Donckier, Anh-Dung Hoang

“…Although, the patient received full anticoagulation because of a cardiac valve and antiphospholipid antibodies, she had no postoperative complication in spite of a short period of delayed graft function. …”
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