Comparison of Atrial Fibrillation in the Young versus That in the Elderly: A Review by Rajiv Sankaranarayanan, Graeme Kirkwood, Katharine Dibb, Clifford J. Garratt

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Differentiation-Associated MicroRNA Alterations in Mouse Heart-Derived Sca-1+CD31− and Sca-1+CD31+ Cells by Qiong Wu, Jinxi Zhan, Yun Li, Xiaoxia Wang, Lu Xu, Juan Yu, Shiming Pu, Zuping Zhou

“…Cardiac resident stem/progenitor cells (CSC/CPCs) are critical to the cellular and functional integrity of the heart because they maintain myocardial cell homeostasis. …”
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Liquefied Petroleum Gas Poisoning in a Child: A Case Report from a Low-Middle Income Country by Abid Jamali, Latif Shamasuddin, Aimen Yunus, Nadeem Ullah Khan

“…Serial monitoring of cardiac enzymes and electrocardiograms is crucial to prevent lethal arrhythmias and cardiac dysfunction.…”
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Integrated Single-Cell and RNA Sequencing Analysis Identifies Key Immune Cell and Dendritic Cells Associated Genes Participated in Myocarditis by Qiang Gong, Jianfeng Huang, Qicai Wu

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Myocarditis Concurrent with Sweet Syndrome: A Presentation of Acute Myeloid Leukemia by Christopher G. Burkeen, David Pottinger, Chaitanya Iragavarapu, Reshma Ramlal, Gerhard Hildebrandt

“…Myocarditis can have a varied clinical picture and often requires exclusion of other causes of cardiac dysfunction. Sweet syndrome, also known as acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis, is another presentation of AML; however, it is more commonly associated with AML than cardiac involvement. …”
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Persistent Cutibacterium (Formerly Propionibacterium) acnes Bacteremia and Refractory Endocarditis in a Patient with Retained Implantable Pacemaker Leads by M. Freedman, J. O. Aflatooni, R. Foster, P. G. Haggerty, C. J. Derber

“…This patient presented with an implanted cardiac pacemaker device, as well as retained leads from a prior pacemaker. …”
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An Interactive Computational Pipeline to Investigate Ventricular Hemodynamics with Real‐Time Three‐Dimensional Echocardiography and Computational Fluid Dynamics by Jan‐Niklas Thiel, Daniel Verhülsdonk, Ulrich Steinseifer, Katharina Linden, Ulrike Herberg, Ingeborg Friehs, Daniel Diaz‐Gil, Michael Neidlin

“…The determined blood flow structures are used to extract flow biomarkers to quantify cardiac function. Patient‐specific computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models that import segmented ventricular deformations from noninvasive imaging data for an individualized hemodynamical analysis are often used. …”
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Molecular Mechanisms in Exercise-Induced Cardioprotection by Saeid Golbidi, Ismail Laher

“…A partial list of proposed mechanisms for exercise-induced cardioprotection include induction of heat shock proteins, increase in cardiac antioxidant capacity, expression of endoplasmic reticulum stress proteins, anatomical and physiological changes in the coronary arteries, changes in nitric oxide production, adaptational changes in cardiac mitochondria, increased autophagy, and improved function of sarcolemmal and/or mitochondrial ATP-sensitive potassium channels. …”
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Constrictive Pericarditis Associated with Atypical Antipsychotics by Kuan-chin Jean Chen, Aashish Goela, Patrick Teefy, L. Ray Guo

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Incidentally detected asymptomatic splenic artery aneurysm by Ihsan Alur, Gokhan Yigit Tanrisever, Bilgin Emrecan

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The Use of Adenosine to Enable Safe Implantation of Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve by Vicki Zeniou, Shmuel Chen, Mony Shuvy, David Luria, Chaim Lotan, Haim D. Danenberg

“…The precision of the implantation has been established by increasing the heart rate (usually to 200 beats per minute) to the point of significantly reduced cardiac output and thus minimizing valve movement. …”
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Coronary Microvascular Function and Beyond: The Crosstalk between Hormones, Cytokines, and Neurotransmitters by Carlo Dal Lin, Francesco Tona, Elena Osto

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The Clinical Benefits of Adding a Third Dimension to Assess the Left Ventricle with Echocardiography by Luigi P. Badano

“…It provides the possibility of quantitating geometry and function of LV without preestablished assumptions regarding cardiac chamber shape and allows an echocardiographic assessment of the LV that is less operator-dependent and therefore more reproducible. …”
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Acute Myocardial Infarction Complicating Active Ulcerative Colitis: A Case Report by Eva D. Papadimitraki, Mubarak Ahamed, Nicholas H. Bunce

“…Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic inflammatory disease that predominantly affects the gastrointestinal (GI) tract but can involve extraintestinal organs including musculoskeletal system and skin. The most frequent cardiac manifestations of UC are pericarditis and myocarditis. …”
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PPARs: Protectors or Opponents of Myocardial Function? by Christine J. Pol, Melissa Lieu, Konstantinos Drosatos

“…Disorders that contribute to HF include ischemic cardiac disease, cardiomyopathies, and hypertension. …”
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Left Atrial Mass Invasion from Pulmonary Neoplasm Extension via the Right Upper Pulmonary Vein Presenting as Ipsilateral Stroke by Piercarlo Ballo, Raffaele Laureano, Mariapia Briganti, Maria Teresa Passaleva, Fiorella Piani, Cecilia Piga, Stefano Tatini, Giovanni Maria Santoro

“…Left atrial invasion by lung cancer via haematogenous pathways is a relatively uncommon but potentially life-threatening event. While several cardiac complications of cardiac involvement have been previously described, the evolution towards cerebral stroke has been rarely reported. …”
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Donor-Derived Disseminated Toxoplasmosis in a Liver Transplant Recipient With Documented Sulfa Allergy by Zoe Raglow, Emily Herriman, Gabriel Abrams, Marc Najjar, Christopher J. Sonnenday, Kevin S. Gregg

“…Transplant recipients who are seronegative for Toxoplasma and receive an organ from a seropositive donor are at high risk for donor-derived toxoplasmosis in the absence of prophylaxis. While the risk in cardiac transplant recipients is well known, this infection is often underrecognized in noncardiac transplant recipients. …”
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morphoHeart: A quantitative tool for integrated 3D morphometric analyses of heart and ECM during embryonic development. by Juliana Sánchez-Posada, Christopher J Derrick, Emily S Noël

“…Finally, morphoHeart's GUI expands its use beyond that of cardiac tissue, allowing its segmentation and morphometric analysis tools to be applied to z-stack images of any fluorescently labelled tissue.…”
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Oral Trypanosoma cruzi Transmission Resulting in Advanced Chagasic Cardiomyopathy in an 11-Month-Old Male by Melissa S. Nolan, Joseane Elza Tonussi Mendes, Andres Ricardo Perez Riera, Gabriel Zorello Laporta

“…This practice could place infants at an increased risk of oral Trypanosoma cruzi infection and severe Chagasic cardiac disease.…”
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Prevalence of congenital defects of heart and large vessels in adults by I.G. Lebid

“…Complex and combined defects require permanent observation in the specialized cardiac centers.…”
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