Sexual and Cardiovascular health.Factors Influencing on the Quality of Sexual Life of Coronary Heart Disease Patients - a Narrative Review by Piegza M, Smolarczyk J, Piegza J

“…The responsibility for counselling lies with cardiologists, general practitioner (GP) and nursing staff. …”
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Clinical characteristics of recurrent non-arteritic retinal artery occlusion by Se Joon Woo, Hyeong Min Kim

“…Additionally, one patient in each group (total 2 patients, 18.2%) experienced a stroke 6 months after RAO recurrence.Conclusions Since the RAO recurrences could lead to devastating visual impairment, it is essential to emphasise the importance of risk factor screening to patients while collaborating with neurologists and cardiologists.…”
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Visual System Inspired Algorithm for Enhanced Visibility in Coronary Angiograms (VIAEVCA) by Hedva Spitzer, Yosef Shai Kashi, Morris Mosseri, Jacob Erel

“…The visibility of the most significant clinical features during the CAG procedure was evaluated and qualitatively compared by the consensus of two cardiologists (MM and JE) to the algorithm’s results. …”
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Anatomy-Informed Multimodal Learning for Myocardial Infarction Prediction by Ivan-Daniel Sievering, Ortal Senouf, Thabo Mahendiran, David Nanchen, Stephane Fournier, Olivier Muller, Pascal Frossard, Emmanuel Abbe, Dorina Thanou

“…<italic>Results:</italic> The results of our framework on a clinical study of 445 patients admitted with acute coronary syndromes confirms that multimodal learning increases the predictive power and achieves good performance (AUC: <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.67\pm 0.04$</tex-math></inline-formula> &amp; F1-Score: <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.36\pm 0.12$</tex-math></inline-formula>), which outperforms the prediction obtained by each modality independently as well as that of interventional cardiologists (AUC: 0.54 &amp; F1-Score: 0.18). <italic>Conclusions:</italic> To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt towards combining multimodal data through a deep learning framework for future MI prediction. …”
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Acute Myopericarditis after COVID-19 Vaccine in Teenagers by Shashikanth Ambati, Michael Colon, Maya Mihic, Javier Sanchez, Adnan Bakar

“…We intend to describe our management in these two cases so that it can help guide pediatricians, intensivists, and cardiologists taking care of similar cases. Case Summaries. …”
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Cost-Effectiveness of the Prenatal Detection of Congenital Heart Diseases: A Systematic Literature Review by Darío Londoño Trujillo, Paula A. Castro García, Kristian K. Rojas López, Karen J. Moreno-Medina, María T. Dominguez Torres, Rodolfo J. Dennis Verano, Nestor F. Sandoval Reyes

“…Screening with only 4-chamber views interpreted by general practitioners or cardiologists were dominant strategies compared with screening with 4-chamber plus outflow views interpreted by a general practitioner. …”
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Cluster randomised controlled trial of screening for atrial fibrillation in people aged 70 years and over to reduce stroke: protocol for the pilot study for the SAFER trial by Martin R Cowie, Stephen Morris, Gregory Lip, Richard J McManus, Stephen Sutton, Jonathan Mant, Simon J Griffin, Sarah Hoare, Jenni Burt, Rachel Johnson, Mark Lown, Alison Powell, Natalie Armstrong, FD Richard Hobbs, Trudie Lobban, Rakesh Narendra Modi, Ben Freedman, David A Fitzmaurice, Stephen Kaptoge, Jenny Lund, Duncan Edwards, Kate Williams, H Thom, Francesco Fusco, Michael J Sweeting, Andrew Dymond, The SAFER Authorship Group

“…Participants are asked to record four traces every day for 3 weeks on a hand-held single-lead ECG device. Cardiologists remotely confirm episodes of AF identified by the device algorithm, and general practitioners follow-up with anticoagulation as appropriate. …”
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Redo Aortic Valve Replacement After Prior Transcatheter versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement: Insights from Western Experience by Arber Aliu, Klodiana Durici, Ira Lazo, Altin Veshti

“…This trend underscores the need for this informative article, which aims to provide insights into the risks and outcomes of aortic valve reoperations, particularly in light of efforts by interventional cardiologists to expand the indications for TAVR to younger and lower-risk patients. …”
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Multi-dimensional outcomes following extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation by Tharusan Thevathasan, Vanessa Wahl, Joshua Boettel, Megan Kenny, Julia Paul, Sophie Selzer, Abdulla Al Harbi, Eva-Maria Dorsch, Heinrich Audebert, Matthias Rose, Christoph Paul Klapproth, Sonia Lech, Katharina Schmitt, Steffen Desch, Ulf Landmesser, Ralf Westenfeld, Fabian Voss, Carsten Skurk

“…A multidisciplinary post-ECPR outpatient care program was developed at two centers, involving cardiologists, neurologists, psychologists and medical sociologists to assess seven key health dimensions. …”
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Geographic and socioeconomic variation of sodium and potassium intake in Italy: results from the MINISAL-GIRCSI programme by Simona Giampaoli, Francesco P Cappuccio, Chen Ji, Luigi Palmieri, Diego Vanuzzo, Chiara Donfrancesco, Renato Ippolito, Pasquale Strazzullo

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Gender differences in efficiency of the telemedicine care of heart failure patients. The results from the TeleEduCare-HF study by Agata Bielecka-Dąbrowa, Dariusz Trzmielak, Agata Sakowicz, Kamil Janikowski, Maciej Banach

“…Based on regular measurements of weight and blood pressure HF patients were telemonitored by nurses, primary care physicians and referred to cardiologists when necessary. The questionnaire was conducted in all patients at baseline after enrollment to the study and after 3 months of telemonitoring and extensive educational process. …”
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