Clinical features and choice of the revascularization method in patients with stable coronary heart disease and preserved left ventricular ejection fraction by Yu.A. Borkhalenko, О.J. Zharinov, K.O. Mikhaliev, О.А. Yepanchintseva, А.V. Khokhlov, B.М. Тоdurov

“…Features of the patients with coronary artery disease and preserved left ventricular function, selected for CABG, are more pronounced stable angina (III and IV functional class) and heart failure, often the presence of UPLM and multivessel disease. …”
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Serum NT-Pro-BNP versus Noninvasive Bedside Inotropic Index in Paediatric Shock: A Contest of Myocardial Performance in Response to Fluid Loading by Antonius Hocky Pudjiadi, Tuty Rahayu, Stephanie Wijaya, Fatima Safira Alatas

“…A significantly lower Smith–Madigan inotropic index (SMII) has been shown to accurately represent cardiac contractility among heart failure subjects. We aim to monitor the effect of fluid resuscitation on cardiac function among paediatric patients by measuring serum NT-pro-BNP and SMII. …”
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Sistem Monitoring Frekuensi Denyut Nadi pada Pelari Menggunakan Metode Photoplethysmographic by Asih Setiarini, Mahatma Widya Laksana, Basuki Winarno

“…Hence, the medical device to detect heart failure for runners is required. In this paper, a monitoring system and data logger for detecting heart pulse by using easily plugin pulse sensor heart beat and its implementation for runners is newly proposed. …”
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Identification of individual-level clinical factors associated with increased risk of death during heatwaves: a time-stratified case-crossover study using national primary care rec... by Shakoor Hajat, Ross Thompson, Sari Kovats, Emer O’Connell, Helen Macintyre

“…Individuals prescribed medications to treat heart failure and high blood pressure also have increased odds of death during heatwaves. …”
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Relationship between White Blood Count to Mean Platelet Volume Ratio and Clinical Outcomes and Severity of Coronary Artery Disease in Patients Undergoing Primary Percutaneous Coron... by Altekin Refik Emre, Kilinc Ali Yasar, Yanikoglu Atakan, Cicekcibasi Orhan, Kucuk Murathan

“…The rates of in-hospital MACE (p=0.001), cardiac death (p<0.001), decompansated heart failure (0.007), and ventricular tachycardia/fibrillation (p=0.003) were higher in the high WMR group than in the low WMR group. …”
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A Novel Mutation in the CYP11B1 Gene Causes Steroid 11β-Hydroxylase Deficient Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia with Reversible Cardiomyopathy by Mohammad A. Alqahtani, Ayed A. Shati, Minjing Zou, Ali M. Alsuheel, Abdullah A. Alhayani, Saleh M. Al-Qahtani, Hessa M. Gilban, Brain F. Meyer, Yufei Shi

“…The elder patient died due to heart failure and his younger brothers were treated with hydrocortisone and antihypertensive medications. …”
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In Vivo Evaluation of the Ameliorating Effects of Small-Volume Resuscitation with Four Different Fluids on Endotoxemia-Induced Kidney Injury by Yan-ling Wang, Jing-hui Chen, Qiong-fang Zhu, Gao-feng Yu, Chen-fang Luo, Gang-jian Luo, Shang-rong Li, Zi-qing Hei

“…Fluid resuscitation is the main therapy. However, heart failure is usually lethal for those patients receiving large volumes of fluids. …”
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Development and Evaluation of a Deep Learning–Based Pulmonary Hypertension Screening Algorithm Using a Digital Stethoscope by Ling Guo, Nivedita Khobragade, Spencer Kieu, Suleman Ilyas, Preston N. Nicely, Emmanuel K. Asiedu, Fabio V. Lima, Caroline Currie, Emileigh Lastowski, Gaurav Choudhary

“…A new readily available screening tool to identify elevated pulmonary artery systolic pressures is needed to help with the prognosis and timely treatment of underlying causes such as heart failure or pulmonary vascular remodeling. We developed a deep learning–based method that uses phonocardiograms (PCGs) for the detection of elevated pulmonary artery systolic pressure, an indicator of pulmonary hypertension. …”
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Clinical Risk Factors for Gastroduodenal Ulcer in Romanian Low-Dose Aspirin Consumers by Anca Negovan, Mihaela Iancu, Valeriu Moldovan, Septimiu Voidazan, Simona Bataga, Monica Pantea, Kinga Sarkany, Cristina Tatar, Simona Mocan, Claudia Banescu

“…In univariate analysis, factors significantly associated with ulcers were male gender (p=0.001), anticoagulants (p=0.029), nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (p=0.013), heart failure (p=0.007), liver (p=0.011) or cerebrovascular disease (p=0.004), diabetes mellitus (p=0.043), ulcer history (p=0.044), and alcohol consumption (p=0.018), but not Helicobacter pylori infection (p=0.2). …”
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Prevalence and Economic Impact of Acute Respiratory Failure in the Prehospital Emergency Medical Service of the Madrid Community: Retrospective Cohort Study by Ana María Cintora-Sanz, Cristina Horrillo-García, Víctor Quesada-Cubo, Ana María Pérez-Alonso, Alicia Gutiérrez-Misis

“… Abstract BackgroundChronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), congestive heart failure (CHF), and acute pulmonary edema (APE) are serious illnesses that often require acute care from prehospital emergency medical services (EMSs). …”
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Myocardial Gene Expression of T-bet, GATA-3, Ror-γt, FoxP3, and Hallmark Cytokines in Chronic Chagas Disease Cardiomyopathy: An Essentially Unopposed TH1-Type Response by Luciana Gabriel Nogueira, Ronaldo Honorato Barros Santos, Alfredo Inácio Fiorelli, Eliane Conti Mairena, Luiz Alberto Benvenuti, Edimar Alcides Bocchi, Noedir Antonio Stolf, Jorge Kalil, Edecio Cunha-Neto

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Interactions of ST-elevation myocardial infarction, age, and sex and the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events among Chinese adults: a secondary analysis of a single-centre p... by Lin Zhou, Wei Yuan, Cuiping Wang, Yi Liang, Peijing Liu

“…A total of 843 adults were included in the analysis.Primary and secondary outcome measures MACE was defined as any occurrence of cardiovascular mortality, MI recurrence, cardiogenic shock or heart failure. The relative excess risk due to interaction (RERI), attributable proportion (AP) and the synergy index were computed to quantify the interactions. …”
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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

“…In group one there were 4 cases of acute heart failure, one case of acute myocardial infarction, one acute respiratory failure and one significant blockade, which required the implantation of a pacemaker, while in other groups such cases were not recorded. …”
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The First Harmonic of Radial Pulse as an Early Predictor of Silent Coronary Artery Disease and Adverse Cardiac Events in Type 2 Diabetic Patients by Chi-Wei Chang, Kuo-meng Liao, Yi-Ting Chang, Sheng-Hung Wang, Ying-chun Chen, Gin-Chung Wang

“…By comparing the data of patients with C1 smaller than the first quartile and the patients with C1 greater than the third quartile, the hazard ratios were listed as follows: ACE (hazard ratio, 2.29; 95% CI, 1.55–3.37), heart failure (hazard ratio, 2.22; 95% CI, 1.21–4.09), myocardial infarction (hazard ratio, 2.44; 95% CI, 1.51–3.93), left ventricular dysfunction (Hazard ratio, 2.01; 95% CI, 0.86–4.70), and new symptoms and signs for coronary artery disease (hazard ratio, 2.03; 95% CI, 1.45–2.84). …”
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Nonclassical Axis of the Renin-Angiotensin System and Neprilysin: Key Mediators That Underlie the Cardioprotective Effect of PPAR-Alpha Activation during Myocardial Ischemia in a M... by María Sánchez-Aguilar, Luz Ibarra-Lara, Leonardo del Valle-Mondragón, Elizabeth Soria-Castro, Juan Carlos Torres-Narváez, Elizabeth Carreón-Torres, Alicia Sánchez-Mendoza, María Esther Rubio-Ruíz

“…The activation of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) participates in the development of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and in heart failure. PPAR-alpha activation by fenofibrate reverts some of the effects caused by these pathologies. …”
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Vasoreactive testing prevalence and characteristics in patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension by Goncharova Natalia, Kirill Lapshin, Aelita Berezina, Irina Zlobina, Anton Ryzhkov, Zhaneta Matakaeva, Elizaveta Andreeva, Olga Moiseeva

“…Patients with ND VRT due to the physicians decision were often older than 60 years, had higher body mass index, symptoms of right heart failure, hemoptysis, arrhythmias, high NT-proBNP, and hemodynamic criteria of high risk in comparison with patients with done VRT. …”
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Clinical code usage in UK general practice: a cohort study exploring 18 conditions over 14 years by Christos Grigoroglou, Darren M Ashcroft, Evangelos Kontopantelis, David Reeves, Salwa S Zghebi, Rosa Parisi, Brian McMillan

“…Objective To assess the diagnostic Read code usage for 18 conditions by examining their frequency and diversity in UK primary care between 2000 and 2013.Design Population-based cohort studySetting 684 UK general practices contributing data to the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) GOLD.Participants Patients with clinical codes for at least one of asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, hypertension (HT), coronary heart disease, atrial fibrillation (AF), heart failure, stroke, hypothyroidism, chronic kidney disease, learning disability (LD), depression, dementia, epilepsy, severe mental illness (SMI), osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and cancer.Primary and secondary outcome measures For the frequency ranking of clinical codes, canonical correlation analysis was applied to correlations of clinical code usage of 1, 3 and 5 years. …”
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Temperature and repeated catecholamine surges modulate regional wall motion abnormalities in a rodent takotsubo syndrome model by Ermir Zulfaj, AmirAli Nejat, Abdulhussain Haamid, Aaron Espinosa, Ahmed Elmahdy, Tetiana Pylova, Sandeep Jha, Björn Redfors, Elmir Omerovic

“…TS rats developed complications similar to patients, including heart failure, arrhythmias, and thrombus formation. This study validates the small-animal TS model by replicating patient findings, and emphasizing the importance of controlling body temperature and limiting adrenergic drug use in managing TS. …”
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The predictive value of echocardiographic parameters regarding appearance of atrial fibrillation in patients with acute coronary syndrome by V.Y. Tseluyko, F. Ben Salem, N.A. Lopina

“…Among patients with AF, complicating the course of ACS, Killip class I of acute heart failure was more likely to be recorded in ACS than in patients of group 2 (p = 0.05) with less left atrial size compared to patients with AF known before ACS (p1a-1b = 0.005). …”
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The Long-Term Change of Arrhythmias after Transcatheter Closure of Perimembranous Ventricular Septal Defects by Hongyan Zheng, Aiwen Lin, Li Wang, Yukai Xu, Zhiwei Zhang

“…At the endpoint, severe arrhythmia persisted in 13 patients, of which four patients got permanent pacemaker implanted, and one patient with recurrent CLBBB died from heart failure. Conclusions. The probability of delayed CAVB or bundle branch block after VSD closure is low but often occurs several years after surgery. …”
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