Cocaine-Associated Myocardial Infarction: Should They All Be Stented? by Sazzli Kasim, Ronan O'Donabhain, Eugene Mcfadden

“…Cocaine use is a known cause of chest pain and acute myocardial infarction and frequently leads to cardiac catheterization procedure. The treatment of cocaine-related acute coronary syndromes presents unique challenges because a variety of mechanisms including atherosclerotic plaque rupture, platelet activation, and coronary vasospasm may contribute to the pathogenesis. …”
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Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing-Guided Exercise Therapy in Hypertensive Patients: A Single Center Study by Qin Lu, Jingjing Lu, Che Li, Ping Huang, Fenfen Jiang, Xia Zhao, Jianqin Zhang, Yi Huang, Zhenliang Chu

“…Conclusion: In addition to drug treatment, cardiac rehabilitation guided by CPET can effectively improve blood pressure control, reduce blood pressure variability, improve cardiorespiratory function and lipid metabolism, and increase exercise endurance in patients with Grade 1 hypertension. …”
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Pericardial Window Formation Complicated by Intrapericardial Diaphragmatic Hernia by Jeremy Docekal, Thomas Fabian

“…We describe a 73-year-old female who presented with cardiac and abdominal symptoms one month after undergoing a subxiphoid pericardioperitoneal window for treatment and evaluation of a symptomatic pericardial effusion.…”
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Case Report: Recognizing Pneumatosis Intestinalis: A Case of Bowel Ischemia Presenting as Renal Colic by Peter D. Corr

“…Bowel ischemia and or infarction must be considered in the differential diagnosis in the older patient with pre-existing coronary artery or generalized vascular disease, cardiac failure, or arrhythmias especially atrial fibrillation and hypertension. …”
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Coronary artery abnormalities in pediatric patients: classification. by José Jesús García Mendiola

“…These constitute a group of malformations which can be classified into, congenital, acquired and associated to other cardiac entities malformations. Due to the importance of this topic for cardiologists and specifically to pediatric cardiologists, this bibliographical revision about abnormalities classification is carried out. …”
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A Case of Severe Asymptomatic Aortic Coarctation in an Adult Female by Spyros Tsikrikas, Charalampos Charalampous, Konstantinos P. Letsas

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Use of Continuous Negative Pressure Around the Chest Increases Exercise Performance in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients: A Pilot Study by Rakesh K Chaturvedi, Arnold Zidulka

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Vascular Calcification in an Adolescent Treated with Long-Term Peritoneal Dialysis by Mesiha Ekim, Suat Fitoz, Z. Birsin Ozcakar, Fatos Yalcinkaya

“…In this report we described vascular and cardiac valvular calcifications in an adolescent on CAPD.…”
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Delving into biomarkers and predictive modeling for CVD mortality: a 20-year cohort study by Zhen Wu, Abdullahi Mohamud Hilowle, Ying Zhou, Changlin Zhao, Shuo Yang

“…After applying the Boruta algorithm for feature selection, key biomarkers including NT-proBNP, cardiac troponins, and homocysteine were identified as significant predictors of CVD mortality. …”
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Midterm Clinical Impacts of Biodegradable Polymer Everolimus-Eluting Stents Compared with Durable Polymer Everolimus-Eluting Stents: A 3-Year Propensity-Matched Study by Hiroaki Matsuda, Ai Kagase, Takahiro Tokuda, Yusuke Ochiumi, Akira Murata, Yoriyasu Suzuki, Tatsuya Ito

“…The primary endpoint was a 3-year cumulative incidence of target lesion failure (TLF) defined as cardiac death, target vessel myocardial infarction (MI), and clinical indicated target lesion revascularization (TLR). …”
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Cytisine compared to combination nicotine replacement therapy to reduce cigarette consumption in relapsed smokers: protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial by Hassan Mir, Javad Heshmati, Kerri-Anne Mullen, Ashley Baldwin, Evyanne Quirouette, Andrew Pipe, Robert Reid

“…This study aims to assess the feasibility of randomizing patients who relapse to combination NRT or cytisine after admission to a cardiac hospital. Study design Randomized, two-group parallel feasibility trial. …”
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In vivo confocal microscopic study of cornea verticillata and limbus deposits in patients with Fabry disease by Xuecong Zhou, Yawen Zhao, Yingsi Li, Yujing Yuan, Xiaoming Yan, Wei Zhang, Yuan Wu

“…The high prevalence of epithelial deposits observed through IVCM in the cardiac variant highlights the essential ability of IVCM as an effective diagnostic tool.…”
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Computed Tomography Angiography in the Catheterization Laboratory: A Guide Towards Optimizing Coronary Interventions by Eirini Beneki, Kyriakos Dimitriadis, Nikolaos Pyrpyris, Alexios Antonopoulos, Konstantinos Aznaouridis, Panagiotis Antiochos, Christos Fragoulis, Henri Lu, David Meier, Konstantinos Tsioufis, Stephane Fournier, Constantina Aggeli, Georgios Tzimas

“…Cardiac computed tomography (CT) has become an essential tool in the pre-procedural planning and optimization of coronary interventions. …”
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Splenectomy with Portoazygous Disconnection for Correction of Systemic Hemodynamic Disorders in Hepatic Cirrhosis Patients with Portal Hypertension: A Prospective Single-Center Coh... by Dao-Bing Zeng, Liang Di, Qing-Liang Guo, Jing Ding, Xiao-Fei Zhao, Shi-Chun Lu

“…At 1 month postoperatively and 6 months to 2 years, the cardiac output was significantly lower versus the baseline (P<0.05). …”
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Gender and age features in adults with congenital heart disease by I.G. Lebid

“…The aim – to estimate effect of age and sex differences on risk of cardiac and surgical treatment and on follow-up after surgery in adulthood in patients with сongenital heart disease (СHD). …”
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Effects of Curcumin on Parameters of Myocardial Oxidative Stress and of Mitochondrial Glutathione Turnover in Reoxygenation after 60 Minutes of Hypoxia in Isolated Perfused Working... by Ermita I. Ibrahim Ilyas, Busjra M. Nur, Sonny P. Laksono, Anton Bahtiar, Ari Estuningtyas, Caecilia Vitasyana, Dede Kusmana, Frans D. Suyatna, Muhammad Kamil Tadjudin, Hans-Joachim Freisleben

“…We investigated the effects of curcumin on cardiac, myocardial, and mitochondrial parameters in perfused isolated working Guinea pig hearts. …”
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Alterations in genes associated with cytosolic RNA sensing in whole blood are associated with coronary microvascular disease in SLE by Lihong Huo, Arati Naveen Kumar, Gantsetseg Tumurkhuu, Moumita Bose, Daniel S. Berman, Daniel J. Wallace, Janet Wei, Mariko Ishimori, C. Noel Bairey Merz, Caroline Jefferies

“…Chest pain with no obstructive cardiac disease is associated with coronary microvascular disease (CMD), where narrowing of the small blood vessels can lead to ischemia, and frequently reported by SLE patients. …”
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Computational analysis of congenital heart disease associated SNPs: unveiling their impact on the gene regulatory system by Shikha Vashisht, Costantino Parisi, Cecilia L. Winata

“…To study the functional implications of noncoding CHD-SNPs, we cross-validated them with enhancer-specific histone modification marks from developing human heart across 9 Carnegie stages and identified potential cardiac enhancers. This approach led to the identification of 2,056 CHD-associated putative enhancers (CHD-enhancers), 38.9% of them overlapping with known enhancers catalogued in human enhancer disease database. …”
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The role of clinical pharmacists in improving diabetic care of hospitalized heart patients by Sanaa Mekdad, Leenah Alsayed, Susan Alkhulaif

“…Objectives: The purpose of this research is to understand how clinical pharmacists at King Fahad Medical City impact the management of hospitalized patients with diabetes and cardiac conditions. Method: A prospective randomized study was conducted at the Cardiac Center of King Fahad Medical City, involving patients admitted between 2019 and 2023. …”
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Developing a new clinical governance framework for chronic diseases in primary care: an umbrella review by Walter Ricciardi, Gianfranco Damiani, Alessandra Buja, Vincenzo Baldo, Mark H Ebell, Roberto Toffanin, Mirko Claus

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