Anatomical and physiological features of the right heart affecting the effectiveness of balloon valvuloplasty and increase the risk of repeated interventions in children with valvu... by Yu.L. Kuzmenko, A.A. Dovhaliuk, M.P. Radchenko, O.О. Motrechko

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D1S-Neuro Program: Frequency and Risk Factors for the Development of Diabetic Neuropathy in Pediatric Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus, a Single Center Study by Marco Piccoli, Joaquin Gutierrez de Rubalcava Doblas, Patrizia Furlan, Silvia Cocchio, Alessandro Zamberlan, Gloria Panzeri, Vincenzo Baldo, Carlo Moretti

“…<b>Materials and Methods:</b> Diabetic patients over 11 years old and with at least 5 years of diabetes were subjected to specific tests for the screening of diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) and for the diagnosis of cardiac autonomic neuropathy (CAN). Additionally, all data related to the patients’ average hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels over the last year and the past 5 years and the monitoring and insulin delivery technology used were collected. …”
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Nutrition before and during Surgery and the Inflammatory Response of the Heart: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Marlieke Visser, Hans W. M. Niessen, Wouter E. M. Kok, Riccardo Cocchieri, Willem Wisselink, Paul A. M. van Leeuwen, Bas A. J. M. de Mol

“…Therefore, we studied the effect of nutrition before and during cardiac surgery on myocardial inflammatory response. …”
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Lifelong cardiovascular care in Turner syndrome: two cases with review of literature by Shun Moriguchi, Yuri Mukoyama, Fumihiko Takizawa, Atsushi Ogawa, Tetsushi Ogawa, Junko Ito, Yukishige Yanagawa, Chinatsu Komiyama, Rieko Niitsu, Tsuyoshi Isojima

“…This case emphasizes the importance of cardiac reevaluation during the transition period. …”
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dP/dtmax: An underestimated prognostic factor in large animal infarction model by Rita Garamvölgyi, Dénes Kőrösi, Ottó Tátrai, Emőke Bodor, Dániel Fajtai, Kornélia Farkas, András Vorobcsuk

“…To monitor the cardiac function, measurements were made by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (cMRI), invasive pressure monitoring, and a Pulse index Continuous Cardiac Output (PiCCO) hemodynamic system at 0, 72, and 720 h during the follow‐up period. …”
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Evaluation of Cardioprotective Effect of 3,5,3′-Tri-iodo-L-thyronine in Isoproterenol-Induced Cardiotoxicity by Vinay Mishra, Priya Ghumatkar, Maulik V. Patel, Shilpesh Devada, Ramchandra Ranvir, Prabodha Swain, Rajesh Sundar, Rajesh Bahekar, Mukul R. Jain

“…Lower heart weight, upregulation of cardiac myosin heavy chain alpha (MHC-α), and reduced inflammatory cell infiltration, myonecrosis, vacuolar changes, and a trend toward normal cardiac muscle fiber architecture in microscopic examination of cardiac tissue further support the cardioprotective effect of T3.…”
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Corrigendum to “Chemokines and Heart Disease: A Network Connecting Cardiovascular Biology to Immune and Autonomic Nervous Systems” by Veronica Dusi, Alice Ghidoni, Alice Ravera, Gaetano M. De Ferrari, Laura Calvillo

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Echocardiography in acute critical care in cardiology by N.D. Oryshchyn

“…Diagnostic opportunities of echocardiography in the acute cardiac care are reviewed. It is shown in detail how to perform echocardiography in different scenarios of critical conditions, especially in acute chest pain, acute hypotension and shock, in acute dyspnoea, in chest trauma, in post-procedural and post-surgical complications. …”
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Myocardial Restoration: Is It the Cell or the Architecture or Both? by Duc Thang Vu, Theo Kofidis

“…Myocardial infarction is the leading cause of death in developed countries. Cardiac cell therapy has been introduced to clinical trials for more than ten years but its results are still controversial. …”
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USG-guided bilateral sphenopalatine ganglion block: A useful anesthetic adjuvant for trans nasal trans sphenoidal pituitary surgery in a patient with severely low ejection fraction by Ravi Chaudhary, Yashwant S. Payal, Bishnupriya Mohapatra, Sony Sony, Shivam Shekhar

“…Patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and compromized cardiac function with very low ejection fraction increase the risk of perioperative major adverse cardiac events (MACE). …”
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Striking the Right Balance by Monica Verdoia, MD, PhD, Rasha Al-Bawardy, MD, Maria Antonieta Albanez A. de Medeiros Lopes, MD, Aaysha Cader, MD, MSc, Mayank Dalakoti, MD, Anas Merdad, MD, Yubrine Moraa Gachemba, MD, Hazel Mburu, MD, Sarah Rosanel, MD, Alan Sigal, MD

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Enhancing trauma cardiopulmonary resuscitation simulation training with the use of virtual reality (Trauma SimVR): Protocol for a randomized controlled trial. by Josef Michael Lintschinger, Philipp Metelka, Lorenz Kapral, Florian Kahlfuss, Lena Reischmann, Alexandra Kaider, Caroline Holaubek, Georg Kaiser, Michael Wagner, Florian Ettl, Leonhard Sixt, Eva Schaden, Christina Hafner

“…The primary endpoint is the time to a predefined intervention to treat the underlying cause of the simulated traumatic cardiac arrest. Secondary endpoints include protocol deviations, cognitive load during simulated scenarios, and the influence of gender and personality characteristics on learning outcomes. …”
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Shaggy aorta—An autopsy analysis by Pranita Zare, Pradeep Vaideeswar

“…The involvement of the various segments of the aorta (ascending, transverse, thoracic, and abdominal) was correlated with the clinical manifestations and cardiac/extra-cardiac findings at autopsy. The mortality was categorized as those related to shaggy aorta (Group I), related to cardiac diseases (Group II), and those unrelated to cardiovascular diseases (Group III). …”
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Acute Coronary Syndrome as an Unusual Initial Presentation of T-Prolymphocytic Leukemia: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Christian R. Klein, Felix Jansen, Peter Brossart, Marco Herling, Georg Feldmann

“…Targeted antileukaemic therapy with the monoclonal antibody alemzutumab can lead to effective systemic cytoreduction without cardiac dysfunction even in patients with severe cardiac disease, although cases of cardiotoxicity have been reported.…”
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Idiopathic REM Sleep Behavior Disorder: Implications for the Pathogenesis of Lewy Body Diseases by Tomoyuki Miyamoto, Masayuki Miyamoto, Masaoki Iwanami, Koichi Hirata

“…Both results of the odor identification and cardiac 123I-metaiodobenzylguanidine accumulation have been investigated for their potential to enhance the detection of pathogenesis resembling that of Lewy body-related α-synucleinopathies in patients clinically diagnosed as having idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder. …”
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Complete AV Block in Vaccinated COVID-19 Patient by Kevin Lee, Osman Rahimi, Neelesh Gupta, Chowdhury Ahsan

“…With the developing investigation of its clinical manifestation, cardiac symptoms have been widely reported including acute coronary syndromes, myocarditis, arrhythmias, heart failure, and cardiac arrest. …”
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New Clinical Classification for Ventricular Free Wall Rupture following Acute Myocardial Infarction by Wei Gong, Shaoping Nie

“…However, patients with FWR die of cardiac tamponade secondary to intrapericardial hemorrhage that can be treated if properly diagnosed. …”
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Use of Indocyanine Green (ICG) to Assess Myocardial Perfusion and Territorial Distribution of Vein Grafts Implanted on Coronary Arteries in an Ex-vivo Porcine Model. A Potential Ad... by Cristiano Spadaccio, Antonio Nenna, Diletta Corrado, Carter Glenn, Antonio Panza, Russell Vester, Grzegorz Laskawski, David Rose, Louis Louis

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Biventricular Pulsus Alternans by Param Vidwan, George A. Stouffer

“…It is attributed to variations in stroke volume with alternate cardiac cycles and is typically seen in patients with advanced myopathic conditions. …”
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Rituximab-Induced Coronary Vasospasm by Linda Lee, Vishal Kukreti

“…While it is generally well tolerated, serious adverse effects including infusion reactions with hemodynamic compromise and cardiac arrhythmias or ischemia are possible. We report a case of coronary vasospasm occurring during a rituximab infusion in a patient with minimal tumour burden and who had no cardiac risk factors. …”
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