Unusual hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: case report of an early onset wild-type ATTR amyloidosis accompanied by a chromosomal duplication involving the MYH6 and MYH7 gene by Jassin Hamidi, Yvonne Hanel, Sven Dittmann, Wanda Maria Gerding, Huu Phuc Nguyen, Karin Klingel, Eric Schulze-Bahr

“…Typical symptoms associated with HCM include atrial fibrillation (AF), syncope, ventricular fibrillation, and cardiac arrest. …”
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Risk factors and characteristics of preoperative heart failure in elderly patients with hip fracture and the influence of anemia on prognosis by Aoying Min, Wei Zhao, Wei Li, Weining Li, Zhiyong Hou, Zhiqian Wang

“…Conclusion Older patients combined with admission anemia, coronary artery disease, chronic atrial fibrillation are more likely to have preoperative AHF after hip fracture. …”
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A Rare Case of Spontaneous Cardiac Tamponade Induced by Concomitant Use of Rivaroxaban and Amiodarone by Oreoluwa Oladiran, Jared Segal, Ifeanyi Nwosu, Salik Nazir

“…Rivaroxaban is a direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) approved as an important alternative to warfarin in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation. We report the case of an 87-year-old man with past medical history of nonvalvular atrial fibrillation on rivaroxaban and recently started amiodarone for pulseless ventricular tachycardia who presented to our hospital with intermittent chest pain and was diagnosed with spontaneous hemopericardium causing cardiac tamponade. …”
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Mechanical thrombextraction in patient with acute ischemic stroke on background of oral anticoagulant therapy by V.О. Yarosh, V.V. Babenko, O.E. Svyrydiuk, O.J. Zharinov, O.A. Yepanchintseva, B.M. Todurov

“…The article presents a clinical case of the 75-year old female patient with acute cardioembolic stroke on background of heart failure and atrial fibrillation. Long-term background usage of the direct oral anticoagulant due to atrial fibrillation is a limitation to use thrombolytic therapy, therefore mechanical thrombextraction was performed. …”
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A Combination of Tachycardia-Mediated Heart Failure and Coronary Artery Vasospasm-Induced Silent Myocardial Infarction in a Patient with Severe Thyrotoxicosis by Serena Sert Kim Khoo, Chong Mow Chu, Yin Khet Fung

“…It may be mild features such as palpitations, tachycardia, and exertional dyspnea or may progress to life-threatening consequences such as atrial fibrillation, tachyarrhythmias, heart failure, myocardial infarction, and shock. …”
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Glucomannan engineering highlights roles of galactosyl modification in fine-tuning cellulose-glucomannan interaction in Arabidopsis cell walls by Yoshihisa Yoshimi, Li Yu, Rosalie Cresswell, Xinyu Guo, Alberto Echevarría-Poza, Jan J. Lyczakowski, Ray Dupree, Toshihisa Kotake, Paul Dupree

“…Abstract Widely found in most plant lineages, β-mannans are structurally diverse polysaccharides that can bind to cellulose fibrils to form the complex polysaccharide architecture of the cell wall. …”
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Electrical Injury-Induced Complete Atrioventricular Block: Is Permanent Pacemaker Required? by Osman Beton, Tolga Han Efe, Hakki Kaya, Murat Bilgin, Lale Dinc Asarcikli, Mehmet Birhan Yilmaz

“…Asystole, premature ventricular contractions, ventricular tachycardia, conduction disorders (various degrees of heart blocks, bundle-brunch blocks), supraventricular tachycardia, and atrial fibrillation are the other arrhythmic complications of electrical injury. …”
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Mobile Right Atrial Thrombi in a Patient with the Hemoglobin SC Disease by H. O. Savage, N. Ding, O. Eso, B. Sachdev, D. L. Lefroy

“…The formation of Intracardiac thrombi is rare in the absence of structural heart disease or atrial fibrillation. We describe a case of spontaneous right atrial thrombus formation that occurred in a patient with a hypercoagulable condition who had been sub optimally anticoagulated.…”
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Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation for Management of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in a Patient with Fulminant Myocarditis by Alexander J. Meyer, Michael A. Biersmith, Ernest L. Mazzaferri, Konstantinos Dean Boudoulas

“…Due to refractory ventricular fibrillation, he was placed on venoarterial extracorporeal membranous oxygenation (VA-ECMO). …”
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Unraveling the causal impact of smoking and its DNA methylation signatures on cardiovascular disease: Mendelian randomization and colocalization analysis by Si Cao, Youjie Zeng, Ke Pang, Minghua Chen, Ren Guo, Nayiyuan Wu, Chao Fang, Huiyin Deng, Xiaoyi Zhang, Xiaohui Xie, Wen Ouyang, Heng Yang

“…DNA methylation alteration at cg25313468 (located in the TSS1500 region of REST) is simultaneously associated with the risk of atrial fibrillation, coronary atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, and myocardial infarction. …”
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Stroke Prevention: Managing Modifiable Risk Factors by Silvia Di Legge, Giacomo Koch, Marina Diomedi, Paolo Stanzione, Fabrizio Sallustio

“…Effective secondary-prevention strategies for selected patients include carotid revascularization for high-grade carotid stenosis and vitamin K antagonist treatment for atrial fibrillation. The results of recent clinical trials investigating new anticoagulants (factor Xa inhibitors and direct thrombin inhibitors) clearly indicate alternative strategies in stroke prevention for patients with atrial fibrillation. …”
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Site-specific seeding of Lewy pathology induces distinct pre-motor cellular and dendritic vulnerabilities in the cortex by Hammad F. Khan, Sayan Dutta, Alicia N. Scott, Shulan Xiao, Saumitra Yadav, Xiaoling Chen, Uma K. Aryal, Tamara L. Kinzer-Ursem, Jean-Christophe Rochet, Krishna Jayant

“…Here, we show that seeding of α-synuclein preformed fibrils in mouse dorsal striatum and motor cortex leads to distinct prodromal-phase cortical dysfunction across months. …”
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Two new species of Micropsalliota (Agaricales, Agaricaceae) from subtropical regions of China by Jun-Qing Yan, Zhi-Heng Zeng, Ya-Ping Hu, Cheng-Feng Nie, Bin-Rong Ke, Sheng-Nan Wang, Hui Zeng

“…Morphologically, M. bispora is characterized by very small basidiomata, cymbiform basidiospores up to 9.0 μm long, white to cream pileus with fawn to dull red center, and tibiiform cheilocystidia; M. vulgaris is recognized by small basidiomata, medium-sized spores, white to cream pileus, covered with reddish brown to dark brown fibrils, various cheilocystidia that are up to 60 μm long, and hyphae of fibrils exhibiting pale brown vacuolar pigmentation. …”
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The Use of 99mTc-Methoxy-isobutyl-isonitrile (sestaMIBI) Uptake on Scintigraphy (99m-STS) in Amiodarone-Induced Thyrotoxicosis: Case Series and Review of the Literature by Ghada Elshimy, Mahmoud Alsayed, Jerome Targovnik, Gamal Sidarous, Kresimira M. Milas

“…Amiodarone is a class III antiarrhythmic drug, used by cardiologists to treat arrhythmia including atrial fibrillation (A fib) and ventricular fibrillation. However, amiodarone is associated with endocrine dysfunction including both hypo- and hyperthyroidism. …”
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Crack Cocaine-Induced Cardiac Conduction Abnormalities Are Reversed by Sodium Bicarbonate Infusion by Carlos Henrique Miranda, Antônio Pazin-Filho

“…We report a dramatic case of a 19-year-old man with crack cocaine overdose with important clinical complications as cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation and epileptics status. During this intoxication, electrocardiographic abnormalities similar to those found in tricyclic antidepressant poisoning were observed, and they were reversed by intravenous sodium bicarbonate infusion.…”
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Sudden Cardiac Death: The Most Feared but Potentially Preventable Presentation of Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome by Ana Rita Pereira, Alexandra Briosa, Rita Miranda, Sofia Sequeira Almeida, Luís Brandão, Hélder Pereira

“…A 25-year-old male presented a witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with ventricular fibrillation rhythm. Due to rapid initiation of prehospital advanced life support, return of spontaneous circulation was observed. …”
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Effectiveness of advanced cardiovascular life support in hyperkalemic cardiac arrest: A randomized experimental study in pigs by Najmiddin Mamadjonov, Wan Young Heo, Kyung Woon Jeung, Yong Hun Jung, Hyoung Youn Lee, Seok Jin Ryu, Byung Kook Lee, Yong Soo Cho, Tag Heo

“…Twenty-two pigs randomly underwent either electrically induced ventricular fibrillation arrest or hyperkalemic arrest induced by potassium infusion. …”
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Sanguineous Pericardial Effusion and Cardiac Tamponade in the Setting of Graves’ Disease: Report of a Case and Review of Previously Reported Cases by Peter V. Bui, Sonia N. Zaveri, J. Rush Pierce Jr.

“…Two months later, he was hospitalized for uncontrolled atrial fibrillation. Electrocardiography showed diffuse low voltage and atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular rate. …”
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Electromagnetic Signaling Outperforms Quorum Sensing in Bacterial Biofilms: A Communication Channel Capacity Perspective by Navid Barani, Kamal Sarabandi

“…For instance, biofilms produced by bacterial cells are composed of elastic helical fibers known as amyloid fibrils, which possess permanent electric dipoles. …”
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Mutations in human prion-like domains: pathogenic but not always amyloidogenic by Andrea Bartolomé-Nafría, Javier García-Pardo, Salvador Ventura

“…The cryo-EM structures of pathological and functional fibrils formed by different hnRNPs have been recently elucidated, including those of hnRNPA1, hnRNPA2, hnRNPDL-2, TDP-43, and FUS. …”
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