Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth syndrome and systemic inflammation in pathogenesis of hemodynamic changes at liver cirrhosis by R. V. Maslennikov, A. A. Driga, K. V. Ivashkin, M. S. Zharkova, M. V. Mayevskaya, Ch. S. Pavlov, M. G. Arslanyan, N. B. Musina, Ye. N. Berezina, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Lactulose hydrogen breath test, serum level of C-reactive protein and cardiac ultrasound with simultaneous blood pressure (BP) and heart rate measurement, estimation of basic hemodynamic scores: mean blood pressure (MBP), cardiac output (CO), total peripheral vascular resistance (TPVR) were investigated in all patients. …”
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High risk for life-threatening adverse events of fluoroquinolones in young adults: a large German population-based cohort study by Julia Wicherski, Jonas Peltner, Cornelia Becker, Katrin Schüssel, Gabriela Brückner, Andreas Schlotmann, Helmut Schröder, Winfried V. Kern, Britta Haenisch

“…Endpoints were defined by incident diagnoses of aortic aneurysm/dissection, cardiac arrhythmia, hepatotoxicity, and all-cause mortality. …”
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Association Between Fentanyl Use and Post-Intubation Mean Arterial Pressure During Rapid Sequence Intubation: Prospective Observational Study by Abdullah Bakhsh, Ahmad Bakhribah, Raghad Alshehri, Nada Alghazzawi, Jehan Alsubhi, Ebtesam Redwan, Yasmin Nour, Ahmed Nashar, Elmoiz Babekir, Mohamed Azzam

“…Nonetheless, RSI may result in fatal complications such as peri-intubation cardiac arrest. The risk of peri-intubation cardiac arrest reportedly increases in patients who are profoundly hypoxic or hypotensive prior to endotracheal intubation. …”
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Cerebrospinal fluid dynamics and subarachnoid space occlusion following traumatic spinal cord injury in the pig: an investigation using magnetic resonance imaging by Madeleine Amy Bessen, Christine Diana Gayen, Ryan L. O’Hare Doig, Ryan Michael Dorrian, Ryan David Quarrington, Adnan Mulaibrahimovic, Vartan Kurtcuoglu, Angela Catherine Walls, Anna Victoria Leonard, Claire Frances Jones

“…CSF dynamics, specifically peak cranial/caudal mean velocity (cm/s), and the corresponding time to peak (% of cardiac cycle), were measured on cardiac gated, axial phase-contrast MRI obtained at C2/C3, T8/T9, T11/T12 and L1/L2. …”
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Physiology and Pathophysiology of Marathon Running: A narrative Review by Lorin Braschler, Pantelis T. Nikolaidis, Mabliny Thuany, Daniela Chlíbková, Thomas Rosemann, Katja Weiss, Matthias Wilhelm, Beat Knechtle

“…As such, it improves cardiovascular risk factors, leads to favorable cardiac adaptations, enhances lung function, and improves quality of life in chronic kidney disease patients. …”
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Early sST2 Liberation after Implantation of a Left Ventricular Assist Device in Patients with Advanced Heart Failure by Philipp Opfermann, Elisabeth Simader, Alessia Felli, Michele Bevilacqua, Caroline Holaubek, Martin Dworschak, Mohamed Mouhieddine, Daniel Zimpfer, Jan Hendrik Ankersmit, Barbara Steinlechner

“…We also collected data on hemodynamic parameters (i.e., cardiac output) and frequency of infections during the hospital stay. …”
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Impact of porcelain aorta on outcomes in transfemoral aortic valve implantation (TAVI) with balloon-expandable valves by Bernhard Schieffer, Thomas Kuntze, Tamer Owais, Philipp Lauten, Julian Kreutz, Lisa C Costello-Boerrigter, Mathias Schreiber, Guido Boerrigter, Christian Albert, Mohammad El Garhy, Björn Göbel, Harald Lapp, Birgit Markus

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Mid-term outcome and quality of life after Bentall procedure: single-center experience by I. O. Stetsyuk, L. R. Stetsiuk, B. M. Todurov, I. Yu. Mokryk, V. I. Zaviiskyi, I. P. Nechai, V. B. Demyanchuk, O. V. Zelenchuk

“…It is reasonable to say that all 3 cases of death were due to a non-cardiac cause, i.e. stroke, malignancy and acute abdomen. …”
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Association of Time in Target Range of Resting Heart Rate With Adverse Clinical Outcomes in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention by Jianmei Zheng, Cen Chen, Zhongcai Fan, Qiang Ye, Yi Zhong, Jinsong Li, Hao Huang, Jianping Deng, Jinghong Zhao, Tinglin Xiong, Wenjie Tian, Xuemei Zhang

“…MACE was defined as a composite of cardiac death, nonfatal recurrent myocardial infarction, ischemic-driven revascularization, and ischemic stroke. …”
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Case Report: TAVI in a Patient with Single Coronary Artery and Bicuspid Valve by Murielle Bertin, Mohamed Aboukofa, Pierre Francois Laterre, Zuhair Yousif

“…A bicuspid aortic valve is the most common congenital cardiac abnormality and is found in 0.4-2.25% of the population. …”
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S-Amlodipine: An Isomer with Difference—Time to Shift from Racemic Amlodipine by Jamshed Dalal, J. C. Mohan, S. S. Iyengar, Jagdish Hiremath, Immaneni Sathyamurthy, Sandeep Bansal, Dhiman Kahali, Arup Dasbiswas

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Two Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for One Gunshot by Louis Pot, Alizée Porto, Audrey Le Saux, Amandine Bichon, Emi Cauchois, Marc Gainnier, Julien Carvelli, Jeremy Bourenne

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Myocarditis Caused by Brucella melitensis in the Absence of Endocarditis: Case Report and Review of the Literature by Maria Lagadinou, Virginia Mplani, Dimitrios Velissaris, Periklis Davlouros, Markos Marangos

“…Brucellosis can affect almost all organs and systems of human body. Cardiac complications are unusual, occurring in less than 2% of patients and usually manifest as endocarditis. …”
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Systemic Embolization from an Unusual Intracardiac Mass in the Left Ventricular Outflow Tract by Kelechukwu U. Okoro, Timothy R. Larsen, John C. Lystash

“…Endocarditis can affect any endocardial surface; in the vast majority of cases, the cardiac valves are involved. It is exceedingly rare to develop infective endocarditis on the endocardium of the left ventricular outflow tract due to the high velocity of blood that traverses this area. …”
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Role of Inflammatory Cell Subtypes in Heart Failure by Derek Strassheim, Edward C. Dempsey, Evgenia Gerasimovskaya, Kurt Stenmark, Vijaya Karoor

“…Studies have shown that while some inflammation is required for repair during injury and is protective, prolonged inflammation leads to myocardial remodeling and apoptosis of cardiac myocytes. Various types of immune cells are implicated in myocardial inflammation and include neutrophils, macrophages, eosinophils, mast cells, natural killer cells, T cells, and B cells. …”
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Multimodality Imaging of a Giant Aortic Valve Papillary Fibroelastoma by Nowell M. Fine, David A. Foley, Jerome F. Breen, Joseph J. Maleszewski

“…Papillary fibroelastomas (PFEs) are benign cardiac tumors arising from endocardium. They are commonly found on valvular surfaces and average 1.0–1.5 cm in size. …”
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Rapid Quantification of Myocardial Fibrosis: A New Macro-Based Automated Analysis by Awal M. Hadi, Koen T. B. Mouchaers, Ingrid Schalij, Katrien Grunberg, Gerrit A. Meijer, Anton Vonk-Noordegraaf, Willem J. van der Laarse, Jeroen A. M. Beliën

“…Background: Fibrosis is associated with various cardiac pathologies and dysfunction. Current quantification methods are time-consuming and laborious. …”
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Emergency Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair in a Patient with Failing Heart: Axillofemoral Bypass Using a Centrifugal Pump Combined with Levosimendan for Inotropic Support by Pavel Michalek, Pavel Sebesta, Michael Stern

“…The patient's hemodynamic status was monitored with continuous cardiac output monitoring and transesophageal echocardiography. …”
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Imaging Assessment of Cardiovascular Disease in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Sara C. Croca, Anisur Rahman

“…This review will focus on the current status of the imaging tools available to assess cardiac and vascular function in patients with SLE.…”
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Myocardial Infarction in Neonates: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenge by Manuel Rodríguez Martínez, Eladio Ruiz González, Anna Parra-Llorca, Máximo Vento Torres, Marta Aguar Carrascosa

“…An electrocardiogram revealed QS pattern in leads I, aVL, and V6, suggestive of ischemia. Cardiac enzymes were elevated, and echocardiogram revealed moderate left ventricular dysfunction with a thrombus at the level of the left atrial appendage. …”
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