Assessment of myocardial deformation by CMR tissue tracking reveals left ventricular subclinical myocardial dysfunction in patients with gynecologic cancer undergoing chemotherapy by Kai Tao, Kai Tao, Lu Ye, Yan-Jia-Ni Xu, Yan-Jia-Ni Xu, Meng-Xi Yang, Ru-Tie Yin, Qing-Li Li, Xiao-Juan Lin, Ke-Min Li, Liang Song, Yu Ma, Lan Zhong, Ying Hu, Hua-Yan Xu, Dan-Qing Wang, Ying-Kun Guo

Subjects: “…cardiac magnetic resonance…”
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Combinatorial protective effect of Cinnamomum verum and Stingless Bee Honey against oxidative stress in isoproterenol-induced cardiotoxicity in Wistar rats by Arul Mozhi Padmanabhan, Victor Arokia Doss

Subjects: “…Cardiac hypertrophy…”
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Análisis de los datos del Registro Español de Cirugía Cardiaca (RECC) 2021-2023 by Lourdes Montero-Cruces, Manuel Carnero-Alcázar, Rafael Rodríguez-Lecoq, José C. Sureda-Barbosa, Jorge Rodríguez-Roda-Stuart, Fabrizio Sbraga, Juan J. Legarra-Calderón, Juan M. Gracia-Baena, Alejandro Adsuar-Gómez, Félix Gómez-Blasco, José F. Valderrama-Marcos, Nuria Arce-Ramos, Carlos E. Martín-López, Stefano Urso, José A. Hernández-Campos, Nora García-Borges, Álvaro Pedraz-Prieto, Marta Matamala-Adell, Jorge Rivas Oyarzabal, Diego Macías-Rubio, Enrique Pérez-de la Sota, Alejandro Crespo-de Hubsch, Pilar Gascón-García-Verdugo, José López-Menéndez

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Pregnancy with a Left Ventricular Assist Device: A Narrative Review by Matthew S. Abraham, Lijo M. Andrews, Harsha Deo, John Paul, Santhalakshmi Angappan, Abraham Samuel, Abey S. Abraham

Subjects: “…cardiac anesthesia…”
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Concealed Truths Always Hide behind the Shadows of the Not So Obvious: Deadly Chest Pain Presentation by Khalid Sawalha, Angel Lopez-Candales

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Different Responses to Drug Safety Screening Targets between Human Neonatal and Infantile Heart Tissue and Cardiac Bodies Derived from Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells by Jan Trieschmann, Moritz Haustein, Annette Köster, Jürgen Hescheler, Konrad Brockmeier, Gerardus Bennink, Tobias Hannes

“…We compared electrophysiological and contractile features of cardiac bodies (hiPS-CBs) derived from human-induced pluripotent stem cells and human neonatal and infantile myocardial slices relevant for drug screening. …”
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Effects of the New Aldose Reductase Inhibitor Benzofuroxane Derivative BF-5m on High Glucose Induced Prolongation of Cardiac QT Interval and Increase of Coronary Perfusion Pressure by C. Di Filippo, B. Ferraro, R. Maisto, M. C. Trotta, N. Di Carluccio, S. Sartini, C. La Motta, F. Ferraraccio, F. Rossi, M. D’Amico

“…This study investigated the effects of the new aldose reductase inhibitor benzofuroxane derivative 5(6)-(benzo[d]thiazol-2-ylmethoxy)benzofuroxane (BF-5m) on the prolongation of cardiac QT interval and increase of coronary perfusion pressure (CPP) in isolated, high glucose (33.3 mM D-glucose) perfused rat hearts. …”
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Doxycycline and Benznidazole Reduce the Profile of Th1, Th2, and Th17 Chemokines and Chemokine Receptors in Cardiac Tissue from Chronic Trypanosoma cruzi-Infected Dogs by Guilherme de Paula Costa, Laís Roquete Lopes, Maria Cláudia da Silva, Aline Luciano Horta, Washington Martins Pontes, Cristiane M. Milanezi, Paulo Marcos da Mata Guedes, Wanderson Geraldo de Lima, Richard Schulz, João Santana da Silva, Andre Talvani

“…Chemokines (CKs) and chemokine receptors (CKR) promote leukocyte recruitment into cardiac tissue infected by the Trypanosoma cruzi. …”
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Cardiac-Restricted IGF-1Ea Overexpression Reduces the Early Accumulation of Inflammatory Myeloid Cells and Mediates Expression of Extracellular Matrix Remodelling Genes after Myocardial Infarction by Enrique Gallego-Colon, Robert D. Sampson, Susanne Sattler, Michael D. Schneider, Nadia Rosenthal, Joanne Tonkin

“…We observed improved cardiac function in mice overexpressing cardiac-specific IGF-1Ea as early as day 7 after myocardial infarction. …”
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MicroRNA-208a Dysregulates Apoptosis Genes Expression and Promotes Cardiomyocyte Apoptosis during Ischemia and Its Silencing Improves Cardiac Function after Myocardial Infarction by Hasahya Tony, Kai Meng, Bangwei Wu, Aijia Yu, Qiutang Zeng, Kunwu Yu, Yucheng Zhong

“…Aims. miR-208a is associated with adverse outcomes in several cardiac pathologies known to have increased apoptosis, including myocardial infarction (MI). …”
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Analysis of fatty acid-derived lipids in critically ill patients after cardiac surgery yields novel pathophysiologically relevant mediators with possible relevance for systemic inflammatory reactions by Holger Neb, Verena Roth, Jessica Roos, Jessica Roos, Tom Bauer, Anja Urbschat, Ulrike Heinicke, Carlo Angioni, Dieter Steinhilber, Dieter Steinhilber, Matthias Piesche, Matthias Piesche, Nerea Ferreirós, Robert Gurke, Robert Gurke, Gerd Geisslinger, Gerd Geisslinger, Edith Utech, Kai Zacharowski, Patrick Meybohm, Patrick Meybohm, Patrick Paulus, Elke Schmitt, Elke Schmitt, Thorsten Jürgen Maier, Thorsten Jürgen Maier

“…These patients were hospitalized at Frankfurt University Hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) after cardiac surgery. Inflammatory stages were illustrated over time using clinically established biomarkers such as interleukin-6 (IL-6) and leukocyte count. …”
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A novel data augmentation tool for enhancing machine learning classification: A new application of the higher order dynamic mode decomposition for improved cardiac disease identification by Nourelhouda Groun, María Villalba-Orero, Lucía Casado-Martín, Enrique Lara-Pezzi, Eusebio Valero, Jesús Garicano-Mena, Soledad Le Clainche

“…In this work, a data-driven, modal decomposition method, the higher order dynamic mode decomposition (HODMD), is combined with a convolutional neural network (CNN) in order to improve the classification accuracy of several cardiac diseases using echocardiography images. The HODMD algorithm is used first as feature extraction technique for the echocardiography datasets, taken from both healthy mice and mice afflicted by different cardiac diseases (Diabetic Cardiomyopathy, Obesity, TAC Hypertrophy and Myocardial Infarction). …”
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Risk of Dementia and Its Associated Factors Among the Patients With Coronary Artery Disease Attending a Tertiary Cardiac Hospital of Dhaka City: A Cross‐Sectional Study by Fardina Rahman Omi, Lingkan Barua, Palash Chandra Banik, Syed Mosfiqur Rahman, Mithila Faruque

“…Methods This cross‐sectional study conveniently recruited 280 stable patients with CAD who were admitted for coronary revascularization at a tertiary cardiac hospital situated in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Data were collected face‐to‐face using a pretested questionnaire adapted from the WHO STEP‐wise Approach to Surveillance (STEPS) of Noncommunicable Diseases Risk Factors questionnaire (Version 3.2). …”
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Does macrolide use confer risk of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest compared with penicillin V? A Danish national case-crossover and case–time–control study by Lars Køber, Freddy Lippert, Charlotte Andersson, Peter E Weeke, Gunnar H Gislason, Frederik Boetius Hertz, Aksel Jensen, Jenny D Knudsen, Magnus Arpi, Christian Torp–Pedersen

“…We evaluated the risk of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) associated with specific macrolides in a retrospective study. …”
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Integrating the GRACE Score with the Ceramide Risk Score Enhances the Predictive Accuracy of Major Adverse Cardiac Events in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention by Xiaofei Wang, Chengzhe Liu, Fu Yu, Zizhuo Zhang, Jiale Wang, Xiaoyu Shi, Tianyou Xu, Qiang Deng, Liping Zhou, Wanyue Sang, Hong Jiang, Lilei Yu

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Extracorporeal Cardiac Shock Wave Therapy Ameliorates Clinical Symptoms and Improves Regional Myocardial Blood Flow in a Patient with Severe Coronary Artery Disease and Refractory Angina by Christian Prinz, Oliver Lindner, Thomas Bitter, Detlef Hering, Wolfgang Burchert, Dieter Horstkotte, Lothar Faber

“…The patient received cardiac shock wave therapy (CSWT) over a period of 6 month. …”
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A LASSO-derived clinical score to predict severe acute kidney injury in the cardiac surgery recovery unit: a large retrospective cohort study using the MIMIC database by Qi Guo, Jingjing Huang, Yuewei Li, Hongwei Li, Jingfeng Wang, Yong Xie, Tucheng Huang, Wanbing He, Wenyu Lv, Jieping Huang, Yangxin Chen

“…Objectives We aimed to develop an effective tool for predicting severe acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients admitted to the cardiac surgery recovery unit (CSRU).Design A retrospective cohort study.Setting Data were extracted from the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC)-III database, consisting of critically ill participants between 2001 and 2012 in the USA.Participants A total of 6271 patients admitted to the CSRU were enrolled from the MIMIC-III database.Primary and secondary outcome Stages 2–3 AKI.Result As identified by least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) and logistic regression, risk factors for AKI included age, sex, weight, respiratory rate, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, central venous pressure, urine output, partial pressure of oxygen, sedative use, furosemide use, atrial fibrillation, congestive heart failure and left heart catheterisation, all of which were used to establish a clinical score. …”
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Identification of Dietzia spp. from Cardiac Tissue by 16S rRNA PCR in a Patient with Culture-Negative Device-Associated Endocarditis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Praveen Sudhindra, Guiqing Wang, Robert B. Nadelman

“…Here we describe the identification of Dietzia natronolimnaea/D. cercidiphylli by PCR amplification and sequencing of the 16S rRNA encoding gene from cardiac tissue in a patient with culture-negative device-associated endocarditis.…”
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Comparative evaluation of high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) and conventional oxygen therapy (COT) in infants after non-cardiac surgery: Study protocol of a randomized controlled trial. by Diwei Zhang, Tianqing Gong, Qinghua Huang, Qianqian Zhang, Kai Liu, Jia Li, Hai Yu, Yu Cui

“…HFNC on postoperative outcomes in infants undergoing non-cardiac surgery. We hypothesize that prophylactic use of HFNC after non-cardiac surgery in infants would reduce the incidence of post-anesthesia hypoxemia and could also be adapted as first-line oxygen therapy after non-cardiac surgery.…”
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Comparative Evaluation of Regain of Consciousness in Dexmedetomidine–Propofol versus Ketamine–Propofol in the Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization Procedure under Sedation using BIS Monitoring: A Randomized Prospective Study by Priya Banga, Sunder L. Negi, Banashree Mandal, Parag Barwad, Kulbhushan Saini, Krishna P. Gourav

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