Can we prevent poststroke cognitive impairment? An umbrella review of risk factors and treatments by Clare Flach, Abdel Douiri, Vibhore Prasad, Majed Obaid, Iain Marshall

“…From four SRs of observational studies, we found 19 significant associations with postulated risk factors, and those which we determined to be confident about were: atrial fibrillation (3 SRs, 25 original studies); relative risk 3.01 (1.96–4.61), ORs 2.4 (1.7–3.5) and 2.0 (1.4–2.8), leukoaraiosis, multiple and recurrent strokes, ORs 2.5 (1.9–3.4), 2.5 (1.9–3.1) and 2.3 (1.5–3.5), respectively. …”
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Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy in Dextrocardia with Situs Inversus by A. Ganes, L. Segan

“…We describe a case of a 93-year-old female with dextrocardia who presented with chest pain, atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response, and transient inferior ST elevation. …”
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Effect of MWNTs and SiC-Coated MWNTs on Properties of PEEK/LCP Blend by Ganesh Chandra Nayak, R. Rajasekar, Saswata Bose, Chapal Kumar Das

“…FESEM images shows better fibrillation of LCP in presence of SiC-coated MWNTs. …”
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Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Mimicking Acute Anterior Myocardial Infarction Associated with Sudden Cardiac Death by Y. Daralammouri, M. El Garhy, K. Same, B. Lauer

“…He was successfully resuscitated by ventricular fibrillation.…”
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A Rare Cause of Acute Kidney Injury in a Female Patient with Breast Cancer Presenting as Renal Colic by Roxana Jurubita, Bogdan Obrisca, Gener Ismail

“…Given the rarity of the disease and the paucity of the reported cases in the previous literature a high index of suspicion must be maintained not only in the classical cardiac sources of systemic emboli (atrial fibrillation, dilated cardiomyopathy, or endocarditis), but also in the situations when a hypercoagulable state is presumed. …”
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Endovascular Embolization of Spontaneous Iliopsoas Hematoma: First Experience with Squidperi by Pierluca Torcia, Silvia Squarza, Umberto G. Rossi, Paolo Rigamonti, Lorenzo Carlo Pescatori, Giovanni Damiani, Maurizio Cariati

“…A 79-year-old man, suffering from atrial fibrillation and on anticoagulation therapy, was admitted at the emergency department of our institution because of a worsening respiratory insufficiency. …”
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Prior Anticoagulation and Risk of Hemorrhagic Transformation in Acute Stroke: A Post Hoc Analysis of the PRODAST Study by Gerrit M. Grosse, Anika Hüsing, Andreas Stang, Nils Kuklik, Marcus Brinkmann, Martin Grond, Jens D. Rollnik, Lars Marquardt, Andrea Kraft, Eckhard Schlemm, Carsten Eggers, Christoph C. Eschenfelder, Christian Weimar, Hans‐Christoph Diener

“…Background Oral anticoagulation is highly effective in preventing ischemic events in patients with atrial fibrillation. Still, a considerable number of patients have an acute ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack despite anticoagulation. …”
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Depression Paradox in Cardiovascular Outcomes of Adult Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Insights from 2 Million Nationwide Hospitalizations by Rupak Desai, Sashwath Srikanth, Shaylika Chauhan, Zainab Gandhi, Warda Shahnawaz, Aleen Rahman, Bisharah Rizvi, Akhil Jain

“…Paradoxically, there was decreased risk of all-cause mortality [odds ratios (OR): 0.79, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.73-0.86], major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (OR: 0.83, 95% CI: 0.80-0.87), acute MI (OR: 0.80, 95% CI: 0.76-0.85), dysrhythmia/atrial fibrillation (OR: 0.81, 95% CI: 0.79-0.83), and cardiac arrest including ventricular fibrillation (OR: 0.65, 95% CI: 0.73-0.82) in the OSA+D+ cohort (P < 0.001). …”
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The efficacy and safety of peroperative statin treatment during coronary artery bypass grafting by I.V. Shklianka, O.J. Zharinov, К.O. Mikhaliev, O.A. Yepanchintseva, B.M. Todurov

“…The incidence of postoperative atrial fibrillation was significantly lower in groups two and three, compared to group one (р1–2 < 0.001 and р1–3 < 0.001). …”
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Treatment options for Achilles tendinopathy: a scoping review of preclinical studies by Nathanael Opoku Agyeman-Prempeh, Huub Maas, George L. Burchell, Neal L. Millar, Maarten H. Moen, Theodoor Henri Smit

“…The main results were; maximum load and stiffness improvement; fibre structure recovered and less inflammation was observed; collagen I fibrils increased, collagen III fibrils decreased, and fewer inflammatory cells were observed after treatment. …”
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Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Guided Only by Transesophageal Echocardiography by Jinlong Zhao, Feng Li, Yueli Zhang, Zhongyun Zhuang, Man Wang, Liang Fu, Yinkai Ni, Zhexin Lu, Zonghui Chen, Cheng Zhang

“…We performed left atrial appendage occlusion for 14 patients with atrial fibrillation in our hospital. All of the surgeries were completed in a general surgery setting, avoiding fluoroscopy, and in each case, the entire procedure was guided by transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). …”
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Hemorrhage of the Ramus Lumbalis of the Iliolumbar Artery as a Cause for Shock in Blunt Trauma Victims on Therapeutic Anticoagulation by Thomas Patrick Sullivan, Eduardo Smith-Singares

“…Two cases (an 80-year-old female on warfarin and a 67-year-old male on apixaban for atrial fibrillation) presented with shock after direct blunt trauma in their torsos. …”
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Case of Cardiac Arrest Treated with Extra-Corporeal Life Support after MDMA Intoxication by Pierre Voizeux, Romain Lewandowski, Theresa Daily, Omar Ellouze, Olivier Bouchot, Belaïd Bouhemad, Pierre-Grégoire Guinot

“…A 22-year-old man transferred to the emergency room with hyperthermia, tremors, and mydriasis presented a cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation. Interventions. We implemented extra-corporeal life support combined with vasoactive drugs. …”
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Multiple Coronary Fistulas as a Rare Cause of Stable Angina Pectoris by Jasna Čerkez Habek, Tea Friščić, Jozica Šikić, Marko Perčić, Dean Strinić, Daria Ljubas Perčić

“…Our case describes a rare form of CA-LVMMFs draining into the left ventricle in a female patient presenting with fatigue, atypical anginal symptoms, atrial fibrillation, and premature ventricular complexes, without concomitant obstructive coronary artery disease.…”
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Subtle‐but‐smouldering myocardial injury after immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment accompanied by amyloid deposits by Mizuki Ida, Shiro Nakamori, Shinya Yamamoto, Seimi Watanabe, Kyoko Imanaka‐Yoshida, Masaki Ishida, Hajime Sakuma, Keiichi Yamanaka, Kaoru Dohi

“…However, histological examination revealed the deposition of transthyretin amyloid fibrils with only minimal T‐lymphocyte infiltration and no myocyte necrosis, suggesting transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis rather than ICI myocarditis. …”
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Sick Sinus Syndrome and Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy by Ahmed S. Yassin, Ahmed Subahi, Hossam Abubakar, Ahmed Rashed, Mohamed Shokr

“…Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is associated with increased risk of ventricular arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation, and bradyarrhythmias. However, sinus node dysfunction is relatively infrequent in the setting of takotsubo cardiomyopathy. …”
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Thyroid Storm in the Heart: Graves’ Disease Masquerading as Dilated Cardiomyopathy in an Elderly Male by Susheel K. Malani, Chigullapalli Sridevi, Ajitkumar Krishna Jadhav, Digvijay D Nalawade

“…An elderly male patient presented with acute heart failure, atrial fibrillation, renal impairment, and secondary to hypotension, diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy and significant left ventricular (LV) dysfunction. …”
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Focal Left Atrial Tachycardia in a Patient with Left Ventricular Noncompaction by Shailendra Singh, Gulam Parihar, Rohit Rao, Vishal Goyal

“…Atrial arrhythmia usually seen is atrial fibrillation. We report a rare case of focal left atrial tachycardia in an 18-year-old patient who presented for evaluation of persistent tachycardia. …”
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Left Atrial Anatomy Relevant to Catheter Ablation by Damián Sánchez-Quintana, José Ramón López-Mínguez, Yolanda Macías, José Angel Cabrera, Farhood Saremi

“…Although the substrates of atrial fibrillation (AF), its initiation and maintenance, remain to be fully elucidated, catheter ablation in the left atrium (LA) has become a common therapeutic option for patients with this arrhythmia. …”
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Malignant Lymphoma in the Psoas Major Muscle by Nobuhiro Akuzawa, Takashi Hatori, Aya Takase, Jun Aoki, Shinji Sakurai, Masahiko Kurabayashi

“…An 84-year-old Japanese man taking warfarin to prevent cerebral infarction secondary to atrial fibrillation was admitted to our hospital for evaluation of a painless right back mass. …”
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