Contribution of Imaging in Diagnosis of Primitive Cyst Hydatid in Unusual Localization: Pleura—A Report of Two Cases by Fatima Zahra Mrabet, Jihane Achrane, Yassir Sabri, Fatima Ezzahra El Hassani, Sanaa Hammi, Jamal Eddine Bourkadi

“…Cyst hydatid may affect all parts of the human body like the heart, the bone marrow, the eye, the brain, the kidney, and the spermatic cord. …”
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Impact of cardiac magnetic resonance on the diagnosis and management of patients with cardiomyopathies by Popa Oana-Andreea, Onciul Sebastian, Badea Thedor, Marian Denisa, Rac-Albu Bogdan, Amzulescu Mihaela, Bugeac Claudia, Chiriac Oana, Tomescu Luminița, Gheorghita Valeriu, Roșu Andrei

“…In addition, its tissue characterization capabilities, including T1, T2 and T2* mapping and gadolinium enhancement images, allow differentiation between ischemic, inflammatory and infiltrative etiologies of heart disease.…”
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Out-of- hospital mortality in the municipality of Cienfuegos, 2016 by Orlando Morera Álvarez, Daylin Madruga Jiménez, Liliana Caridad Romero Castro

“…Malignant tumors were the leading cause of death (rate of 79.1 x 10,000 inhabitants), followed by heart disease.<br /><strong>Conclusion</strong>: the results obtained in the present study regarding the variables studied are similar to those of other research, both from national and foreign authors.…”
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Left Ventricle Outflow Obstruction by Reverse-Oriented Tricuspid Semilunar Valve-Like Endocardial Duplicatures by Kristína Mikuš-Kuracinová, Pavel Babál, Eliška Kubíková

“…She died with signs of heart failure with pulmonary edema development. At autopsy, there was left ventricle hypertrophy (wall thickness: 21 mm). …”
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Current Tendencies of Judicial Review as Reflected in the New Hungarian Code of Administrative Court Procedure by Krisztina F. Rozsnyai

“…The answers given to alleviate this tension raise questions that lie at the heart of the principle of separation of powers. This article aims to present some of respective tendencies, which lead to new equilibriums in the system of checks and balances between public administration and the judiciary. …”
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Nonsurgical Management of a Papillary Fibroelastoma of the Aortic Valve by Antonino M. Grande, Nicoletta Castiglione, Adelaide Iervolino, Francesco Nappi, Antonio Fiore

“…If on one hand, our report is provocative for PFE nonsurgical management; on the other, we do believe that in symptomatic patients PFE located in the left heart chambers, the standard of care remains surgical excision after diagnosis. …”
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Recurrent Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection as the Cause of Repeated Myocardial Infarctions by Arnon Møldrup Knudsen, Nicolaj Brejnholt Støttrup, Henrik Hager, Henning Mølgaard, Christina Stilling

“…In the following days, the patient developed severe heart failure due to extensive cardiac reperfusion injury and subsequently experienced multiple organ failure, ultimately resulting in death. …”
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Pathogenetic mechanism of stented coronary arteries restenosis and the role of vasculoendothelial growth factor A by M.P. Kopytsya, I.M. Kutya, I.R. Vyshnevska

“…The widespread use of interventional technologies for the treatment of acute and chronic forms of ischemic heart disease led to the appearance of the problem of coronary artery restenosis at the implantation site. …”
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Alice in Wonderland Syndrome: Localising insights from right visual cortex stroke complicated by epilepsia partialis continua by Gashirai K. Mbizvo, Viraj Bharambe, Brython Hywel, Shubhabrata Biswas, Andrew J. Larner

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Genotype-phenotype insights of pediatric dilated cardiomyopathy by Ying Dai, Yan Wang, Youfei Fan, Bo Han

“…DCM can cause adverse consequences such as heart failure, sudden death, thromboembolism, and arrhythmias. …”
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Multisystem Myotilinopathy, including Myopathy and Left Ventricular Noncompaction, due to the MYOT Variant c.179C>T by Josef Finsterer, Claudia Stöllberger, Matthias Hasun, Korbinian Riedhammer, Mathias Wagner

“…He also had arterial hypertension, diverticulosis, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, and a hiatal hernia with reflux esophagitis. …”
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Regeneration of Zebrafish CNS: Adult Neurogenesis by Sukla Ghosh, Subhra Prakash Hui

“…Zebrafish is an excellent animal model, which can repair several organs like damaged retina, severed spinal cord, injured brain and heart, and amputated fins. The focus of the present paper is on spinal cord regeneration in adult zebrafish. …”
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Self-directed flourishing: a conceptual meta-framework for dealing with the challenges of 21st-century learning and education by Eri Mountbatten-O’Malley, Thomas Howard Morris

“…The authors propose placing co-creation, courage and conceptual insight at the heart of educational policies and practices, which the authors suggest will nurture a dynamic, adaptable and ethical microculture for human flourishing in 21st-century education and beyond.…”
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Perception and treatment of melancholy in the writings of Hildegard of Bingen (c. 1098-1179) by Eglė Sakalauskaitë-Juodeikienë

“…Melancholy was interpreted in Hildegard’s medical texts as a heart and a brain disease which was caused by the overabundance of black bile produced in the spleen. …”
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Psychological and behavioral dimensions in cardiac arrest survivors and their families: A state-of-the-art review by Sachin Agarwal, Mette Kirstine Wagner, Marco Mion

“…Recent studies indicate that this distress can narrow patients’ focus, resulting in heightened awareness of cardiac signals—such as fluctuations in heart rate or blood pressure—that lead to constant monitoring and increased anxiety. …”
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Perioperative Risk: Short Review of Current Approach in Non Cardiac Surgery by Andreea Boghean, Cristian Guțu, Dorel Firescu

“…Quantification of surgical risk as low, intermediate, and high is useful in identifying the group of patients who are at risk of complications such as myocardial infarction, thrombosis, arrhythmias, heart failure, stroke or even death. Currently there are not enough studies that can differentiate the risk according to gender, race, elective versus emergency procedure, the value of cardiac biomarkers.…”
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Fever Associated with Gastrointestinal Shigellosis Unmasks Probable Brugada Syndrome by John N. Makaryus, Jennifer Verbsky, Scott Schwarz, David Slotwiner

“…The Brugada electrocardiographic pattern is characterized by right bundle branch block morphology and ST segment elevations in the right precordial leads with an absence of identifiable underlying structural heart disease. The syndrome is clinically significant since these patients are at a higher risk of developing malignant ventricular arrhythmias. …”
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Cardiac Progenitor Cells and the Interplay with Their Microenvironment by Arianna Mauretti, Sergio Spaans, Noortje A. M. Bax, Cecilia Sahlgren, Carlijn V. C. Bouten

“…The microenvironment plays a crucial role in the behavior of stem and progenitor cells. In the heart, cardiac progenitor cells (CPCs) reside in specific niches, characterized by key components that are altered in response to a myocardial infarction. …”
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Cardiovascular patches applied in congenital cardiac surgery: Current materials and prospects by Mingze Sun, Vincent Reed LaSala, Caroline Giuglaris, David Blitzer, Sophia Jackman, Senay Ustunel, Kavya Rajesh, David Kalfa

“…Abstract Congenital Heart Defects (CHDs) are the most common congenital anomalies, affecting between 4 and 75 per 1000 live births. …”
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Contextual Vulnerability Should Guide Fair Subject Selection in Xenotransplantation Clinical Trials by Gianna Strand

“…In a notable single-patient emergency use authorization, physician-investigators offered a genetically modified porcine heart to a living male recipient after denying him access to the waitlist for a human-donor heart, citing a history of non-compliance.…”
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