Current Indications for Surgical Repair in Patients with Bicuspid Aortic Valve and Ascending Aortic Ectasia by Christian D. Etz, Martin Misfeld, Michael A. Borger, Maximilian Luehr, Elfriede Strotdrees, Friedrich-Wilhelm Mohr

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Robust and consistent bonding of polydimethylsiloxane to polystyrene cell culture plates by Marta K. Orlowska, Mary Lor, Rebecca L. Fitzsimmons, Harley Robinson, Iliana Delcheva, Daniel Williams, Craig Priest, James E. Hudson

“…Furthermore, we demonstrate the utility of this bonding process in fabricating our Heart-Dyno device, a 96-well-based platform for culturing cardiac organoids. This bonding process has been successfully used over the past 2 years, with hundreds of plates manufactured for drug screening applications. …”
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TMAO-Activated Hepatocyte-Derived Exosomes Are Widely Distributed in Mice with Different Patterns and Promote Vascular Inflammation by Xiang Liu, Jiazichao Tu, Ziqin Zhou, Bingxin Huang, Jianrong Zhou, Jimei Chen

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Propensity score matching analysis of valve-sparing versus aortic root replacement in type A aortic dissection patients by Ling Chen, Yichao Pan, Huaijian Zhang, Yi Chen, Chunsheng Wang, Zhihuang Qiu, Heng Lu, Liangwan Chen

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Clinical study on the treatment of chronic heart failure with a novel D‐shant atrium shunt device by Xiaoke Shang, Mei Liu, Yucheng Zhong, Xueli Wang, Song Chen, Xiaojuan Fu, Ming Sun, Mingxing Xie, Yuhe Ke, Ying Guan, Changdong Zhang, Nianguo Dong

“…Haemodynamic indexes of right heart catheterization and clinical cardiac function indexes were collected and compared before and 6 months after shunt implantation. …”
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Successful Treatment of Whole Coronary Artery Spasm after Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting by Akihiro Kobayashi, Yoshimori Araki, Takafumi Terada, Osamu Kawaguchi

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Parachute-Like Mitral Valve Tuberculoma: A Rare Presentation by Arslan Masood, Gul Zaman Khan, Irfan Bashir, Zubair Akram

“…There have been anecdotal reports of tuberculous cardiac involvement, mainly in cases of military tuberculosis or immune deficient individuals. …”
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Isolated Invasive Endomyocardial Cystic Echinococcosis Presenting with Heart Failure by Suleyman Ercan, Vuslat Bosnak, Murat Yuce, Vedat Davutoglu, Fethi Yavuz

“…Cardiac cystic echinococcosis is a rarely encountered parasitic infestation caused by Echinococcus granulasus larvae. …”
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Advantages and disadvantages of coronary drug-eluting stent: a 23-year journey of randomized clinical trials by Alfredo E. Rodriguez, Juan Mieres, Juan M. Rokos

“… Introducing drug-eluting stents (DES2) significantly reduced target vessel revascularization (TVR), TVR-myocardial infarction (MI), and definitive stent thrombosis. Cardiac death in high-risk subgroups of lesions was also significantly reduced, and all of this is out of the discussion for the authors. …”
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Is Intravenous Heparin a Contraindication for TPA in Ischemic Stroke? by Zain Kulairi, Nisha Deol, Renee Tolly, Rohan Manocha, Maliha Naseer

“…There are approximately 2 million cardiac catheterizations that occur every year in the United States and with an aging population this number continues to rise. …”
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Adipose-Derived Stromal Cells for Treatment of Patients with Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease (MyStromalCell Trial): A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Study by Abbas Ali Qayyum, Anders Bruun Mathiasen, Naja Dam Mygind, Jørgen Tobias Kühl, Erik Jørgensen, Steffen Helqvist, Jens Jørgen Elberg, Klaus Fuglsang Kofoed, Niels Groove Vejlstrup, Anne Fischer-Nielsen, Mandana Haack-Sørensen, Annette Ekblond, Jens Kastrup

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Polyvascular Disease in Patients Presenting with Acute Coronary Syndrome: Its Predictors and Outcomes by Hassan Al Thani, Ayman El-Menyar, Khalid F. AlHabib, Ahmed Al-Motarreb, Ahmad Hersi, Hussam AlFaleh, Nidal Asaad, Shukri Al Saif, Wael Almahmeed, Kadhim Sulaiman, Haitham Amin, Alawi A. Alsheikh-Ali, Khalid AlNemer, Jassim Al Suwaidi

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Sindrom Koroner Akut dengan Komplikasi Udem Paru Akut dan Henti Jantung by Eka Fithra Elfi

“…<br />Keywords:NSETMI, cardiac arrest, acute lung oedem.<br />…”
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Stent Fracture after Everolimus-Eluting Stent Implantation by Ali S. Almasood, Xavier Freixa, Sohail Q. Khan, Peter H. Seidelin, Vladimír Džavík

“…Nevertheless, DES are still prone to device failure, which may lead to cardiac events. Recently, stent fracture (SF) has emerged as a potential mechanism of DES failure that is associated with ISR. …”
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Exendin-4 Protects against Hyperglycemia-Induced Cardiomyocyte Pyroptosis via the AMPK-TXNIP Pathway by Hong Wei, Rui Bu, Qinghui Yang, Jing Jia, Tao Li, Qiuping Wang, Yanjun Chen

“…Diabetic cardiomyopathy is a common cardiac condition in patients with diabetes mellitus, which results in cardiac hypertrophy and subsequent heart failure. …”
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Early Efficacy of In Situ Fenestration with a Triple Chimney Technique for High-Risk Stanford Type A Aortic Dissection: A Single-Center Retrospective Study by Qingsong Wu, Heng Lu, Debin Jiang, Zhihuang Qiu, Javed Rashid, Linfeng Xie, Yue Shen, Liangwan Chen

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Coronary Subclavian Steal Syndrome Causing Acute Myocardial Infarction in a Patient Undergoing Coronary-Artery Bypass Grafting by Jiri Mandak, Miroslav Lojik, Martin Tuna, James Lago Chek

“…Coronary subclavian steal syndrome with retrograde blood flow in the left internal mammary-coronary bypass graft is a rare but severe complication of cardiac surgery. The authors present a case of a 68-year-old man after coronary-artery bypass grafting using an internal mammary artery. …”
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Human Cardiospheres as a Source of Multipotent Stem and Progenitor Cells by Lucio Barile, Mihaela Gherghiceanu, Laurenţiu M. Popescu, Tiziano Moccetti, Giuseppe Vassalli

“…Cardiospheres (CSs) are self-assembling multicellular clusters from the cellular outgrowth from cardiac explants cultured in nonadhesive substrates. …”
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Fractional-Order PI Control of First Order Plants with Guaranteed Time Specifications by F. J. Castillo-Garcia, A. San Millan-Rodriguez, V. Feliu-Batlle, L. Sanchez-Rodriguez

“…Cardiospheres (CSs) are self-assembling multicellular clusters from the cellular outgrowth from cardiac explants cultured in nonadhesive substrates. …”
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Pharmacological Therapy in the Heart as an Alternative to Cellular Therapy: A Place for the Brain Natriuretic Peptide? by Nathalie Rosenblatt-Velin, Suzanne Badoux, Lucas Liaudet

“…Besides the direct administration of cardiac precursor cells, a distinct approach to cardiac regeneration could be based upon the stimulation of the heart’s natural ability to regenerate, using pharmacological approaches. …”
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