Impact of Quality Improvement Bundle on Compliance with Resuscitation Guidelines during In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Children by Pranali Awadhare, Karma Barot, Ingrid Frydson, Niveditha Balakumar, Donna Doerr, Utpal Bhalala

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Rapid Improvement in Cardiac Damage Predicts Better Prognosis After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement by Hao-Wei Lee, Chih-Hui Chin, Po-chin Chou, Chia-Hsiu Chang, Chiu-Ling Tsai, Chi-Hung Huang

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Lipopolysaccharide Binding Protein and sCD14 are Not Produced as Acute Phase Proteins in Cardiac Surgery by Manuela Kudlova, Pavel Kunes, Martina Kolackova, Vladimir Lonsky, Jiri Mandak, Ctirad Andrys, Karolina Jankovicova, Jan Krejsek

“…The changes in the serum levels of lipopolysaccharide binding protein (LBP) and sCD14 during cardiac surgery were followed in this study. Design. …”
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Incidence and prognosis associated with troponin elevation after cardiac surgery: a prospective cohort study by Arthur Clement, Lee S Nguyen, Anousone Daulasim, Magali Souibri

“…Objective Cardiac troponin is used as a prognostic biomarker after cardiac surgery. …”
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Anti-Interleukin-22-Neutralizing Antibody Attenuates Angiotensin II-Induced Cardiac Hypertrophy in Mice by Jing Ye, Ling Liu, Qingwei Ji, Ying Huang, Ying Shi, Lei Shi, Jianfang Liu, Menglong Wang, Yao Xu, Huimin Jiang, Zhen Wang, Yingzhong Lin, Jun Wan

“…Our data demonstrated that neutralization of IL-22 alleviated angiotensin II-induced cardiac hypertrophy. The downregulation of IL-22 may be a novel therapeutic strategy to prevent cardiac hypertrophy.…”
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FACTORS AFFECTING THE ADHERANCE OF POST CABG PATIENTSIN CARDIAC REHABILITATION-A CROSS-SECTIONALSTUDY IN KARACHI by Muniba Khanum et al

“…This study was aimed to determine the factors that affect adherence of post coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) patient`s to Cardiac Rehabilitation. This cross-sectional study was conducted on 255 Post CABG patients with age 30 years above. …”
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Deep learning-based CT-free attenuation correction for cardiac SPECT: a new approach by Pei Yang, Zeao Zhang, Jianan Wei, Lisha Jiang, Liqian Yu, Huawei Cai, Lin Li, Quan Guo, Zhen Zhao

“…Abstract Background Computed tomography attenuation correction (CTAC) is commonly used in cardiac SPECT imaging to reduce soft-tissue attenuation artifacts. …”
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Complicated Sporadic Cardiac Myxomas: A Second Recurrence and Myxomatous Cerebral Aneurysms in One Patient by Mazen E. Iskandar, Kamellia Dimitrova, Charles M. Geller, Darryl M. Hoffman, Robert F. Tranbaugh

“…A second recurrence of an excised nonfamilial cardiac myxoma is rare. Myxomatous cerebral aneurysms as a complication of cardiac myxomas are equally rare. …”
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Paroxysmal Sneezing at the Onset of Syncopes and Transient Ischemic Attack Revealing a Papillary Cardiac Fibroelastoma by Stéphane Mathis, Matthias Lamy, Jonathan Ciron, Anna Iljicsov, Roxana Arjmand, Pierre Agius, Jean-Philippe Neau

“…We report the case of a 50-year-old man who presented three episodes of sneezing, two of them followed by an episode of transient gait instability and dizziness and the third one followed by an episode of transient left hemiparesis due to fibroelastoma of the aortic cardiac valve. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first description of a transient ischemic attack due to cardiac papillary fibroelastoma and revealed by violent episodes of sneezing.…”
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Modeling autoregulation of cardiac excitation-Ca-contraction and arrhythmogenic activities in response to mechanical load changes by Asuka Hatano, Leighton T. Izu, Ye Chen-Izu, Daisuke Sato

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Composite cardiac computed tomography angiography score for improved risk assessment in chronic coronary syndromes by Subin Lee, Alexander Giesen, Dimitrios Mouselimis, Loris Weichsel, Andreas A. Giannopoulos, Max Nunninger, Matthias Renker, Florian André, Norbert Frey, Grigorios Korosoglou

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Post-Myocardial Infarction Ventricular Septal Defect Successfully Treated with Impella as Bridge to Cardiac Transplantation by Lauren Giudicatti, Benjamin Silbert, Xiao-Fang Xu, Anthony Putrino, Felicity Lee, Amit Shah, Robert Larbalestier, Karim Slimani, Andrew Laycock, Kaitlyn Lam

“…This facilitated bridge to cardiac transplant on day twelve post-MI.…”
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A case report of deep vein thrombosis after cardiac surgery for left atrial myxoma by Hong Wang, Qian Yao, Lin Xu, Yan Wang

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Multi-modal characterisation of early-stage, subclinical cardiac deterioration in patients with type 2 diabetes by Ambre Bertrand, Andrew Lewis, Julia Camps, Vicente Grau, Blanca Rodriguez

“…Detection of early signs of cardiac deterioration in T2DM patients is critical for prevention. …”
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Thirty-five years of single-center experience in cardiac myxoma surgery and related postoperative complications by Grzegorz Grudzien, Jakub Batko, Wojciech Olejek, Maciej Brzezinski, Boguslaw Kapelak, Krzysztof Bartus

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Prevention of Cardiomyopathy in Transfusion-Dependent Homozygous Thalassaemia Today and the Role of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Athanassios Aessopos, Vasilios Berdoukas, Maria Tsironi

“…Despite these improvements, cardiac disease remained the most common cause of death in those patients. …”
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Sudden Cardiac Death: The Most Feared but Potentially Preventable Presentation of Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome by Ana Rita Pereira, Alexandra Briosa, Rita Miranda, Sofia Sequeira Almeida, Luís Brandão, Hélder Pereira

“…The prognosis is usually good, but there is a lifetime risk of malignant arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. Case Summary. A 25-year-old male presented a witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with ventricular fibrillation rhythm. …”
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Cardiac Arrhythmia in a Patient with Sickle Cell Anemia and Falciparum Malaria Treated with Intravenous Artesunate by Abdulrahman Hummadi, Sultan Mubarki, Ayel yahay, Awad Mohammed Al-Qahtani

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Immediate Respiratory Warm-Up Effect on Dynamic Inspiratory Muscle Strength in Cardiac Surgery Candidates by Bahareh Mehregan Far, Sedigheh Sadat Naimi, Mohsen Abedi, Seyed Ahmad Raeissadat, Mahmood Beheshti Monfared, Alireza Akbarzadeh Baghban

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Multidrug Resistant Pseudomonas Mycotic Pseudoaneurysm following Cardiac Transplant Bridged by Ventricular Assistant Device by C. Aye, M. Williams, R. Horvath

“…Mycotic pseudoaneurysm of aorta following cardiac surgery is rare but is highly fatal if it is unrecognized and untreated. …”
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