Mitochondrial Cardiomyopathy Presenting as Dilated Phase of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Diagnosed with Histological and Genetic Analyses by Toshiki Kuno, Syohei Imaeda, Yohei Asakawa, Hiroshi Nakamura, Genzou Takemura, Daisuke Asahara, Akira Kanamori, Tomoyuki Kabutoya, Yohei Numasawa

“…Since cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, beta-methyl-p-I123-iodophenyl-pentadecanoic myocardial scintigraphy, and positron emission tomography/computed tomography revealed no remarkable findings, we performed electron microscopic examination, which aided in diagnosing mitochondrial cardiomyopathy. …”
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Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection Involving the Left Main with Extension to Left Anterior Descending Artery and Left Circumflex Artery: Diagnostic and Management Challenges by Constantin Andrei Rusali, Lucia Cojocaru, Ioana Caterina Lupu, Cezar-Dan Uzea, Maria Lavinia Rusali

“…Spontaneous coronary artery dissection is a rare cause of unstable angina, myocardial infarction, and sudden cardiac death, particularly among young women and individuals without conventional atherosclerotic risk factors. …”
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Vascularization, Innervation, and Inflammation: Pathways Connecting the Heart–Brain Axis and Implications in a Clinical Setting by Alexa R. Lauinger, Joseph J. Sepe

“…The pathways connecting these organs often become injured or dysfunctional when a major pathology, such as a myocardial infarction or stroke, occurs. This leads to long-term impacts on the patient’s overall health and risk for future disease. …”
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Human Cardiospheres as a Source of Multipotent Stem and Progenitor Cells by Lucio Barile, Mihaela Gherghiceanu, Laurenţiu M. Popescu, Tiziano Moccetti, Giuseppe Vassalli

“…CDCs have been tested safely in an initial phase-1 clinical trial in patients after myocardial infarction. Whether or not CDCs are superior to purified populations, for example, c-kit+ cardiac stem cells, or to gene therapy approaches for cardiac regeneration remains to be evaluated.…”
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Successful pericardiotomy with drainage of the pericardial cavity in case of multimorbid patient by N.M. Seredyuk, A.V. Sudus, I.M. Budzan, S.M. Hrychynyuk, V.В. Tomyn, N.V. Rohiv, M.V. Bielinskyi, A.Ya. Vasylyshyn

“…Multimorbidity of the patient included combination of causal diseases (atherosclerosis, coronary artery atherotrombosis), a number of complicated conditions (two myocardial infarctions, left ventricular aneurysm, cardiac tamponade, acute and chronic heart failure), competitive diseases (peptic ulcer, pancreatitis, obesity, umbilical hernia). …”
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Subclinical systolic dysfunction in children with steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome identified by speckle tracking echocardiography by Mohamed Hashem Mahgoob, Amr Mostafa Setouhi

“…The aim of this study was to determine whether children with SRNS have subclinical left ventricular systolic dysfunction and, if so, to identify the risk factors for myocardial involvement in those children. Methods This prospective case-control study included of 35 children with SRNS, 40 children in the healthy control group, and 40 children with NS during the initial episode as the diseased control group. …”
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Heart rhythm safety of the mononuclear cord blood stem cells transplantation in patients with refractory ischemic heart failure by O.Yu. Usenko, A.V. Yakushev, O.V. Lisun, M.V. Kostylev, V.F. Onishchenko

“…The work is based on the analysis of Holter-ECG monitoring data in 20 patients with refractory heart failure and reduced myocardial contractility. With the purpose of improvement of systolic function patients underwent transplantation of mononuclear cord blood stem cells. …”
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Disruption of BCAA degradation is a critical characteristic of diabetic cardiomyopathy revealed by integrated transcriptome and metabolome analysis by Wu Yanxia, Jiang Wanxiang, Wang Junlong, Xie Guoqing, Sun Yan, Yang Jinliang

“…These findings suggest that the disruption of BCAA degradation is a critical characteristic of diabetic myocardial damage and indicate a potential role for Gata3 in the dysregulation of BCAA metabolism in the context of DCM.…”
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A Case of Atrioventricular Block Potentially Associated with Right Coronary Artery Lesion and Ticagrelor Therapy Mediated by the Increasing Adenosine Plasma Concentration by Xiaoye Li, Ying Xue, Hongyi Wu

“…It was important to take the ticagrelor induced bradycardia into account particularly with the myocardial infarction of right coronary artery, treated with atrioventricular block drugs after initiating ticagrelor. …”
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Ginkgolide B Blocks Vascular Remodeling after Vascular Injury via Regulating Tgfβ1/Smad Signaling Pathway by Quan Wang, Shuai Ni, Li Ling, Siqi Wang, Hanbin Xie, Zhanhong Ren

“…Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most prevalent cardiovascular disease worldwide, resulting in myocardial infarction (MI) and even sudden death. Following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), restenosis caused by vascular remodeling is always formed at the stent implantation site. …”
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PPARs, Cardiovascular Metabolism, and Function: Near- or Far-from-Equilibrium Pathways by Yves Lecarpentier, Victor Claes, Jean-Louis Hébert

“…Dysfunction of clock genes and PPARγ may lead to hyperphagia, obesity, metabolic syndrome, myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death, In pathological conditions, regulatory processes of the cardiovascular system may bifurcate towards new states, such as those encountered in hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and heart failure. …”
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Right coronary artery originating from the left anterior descending artery, or double localized stemi with a twist: case report by Gábor Gergely, Zsolt István Szabó, Zsolt Körömi, Csaba Petrov

“…In such anatomical conditions, choosing the planned interventional strategy is of great importance as a potentially larger myocardial area may be at risk during an acute coronary syndrome or in the event of an interventional complication.…”
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Fractional-Order PI Control of First Order Plants with Guaranteed Time Specifications by F. J. Castillo-Garcia, A. San Millan-Rodriguez, V. Feliu-Batlle, L. Sanchez-Rodriguez

“…CDCs have been tested safely in an initial phase-1 clinical trial in patients after myocardial infarction. Whether or not CDCs are superior to purified populations, for example, c-kit+ cardiac stem cells, or to gene therapy approaches for cardiac regeneration remains to be evaluated.…”
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Post-COVID effect on heart after recovery based on hybrid EfficientNet-DBN with multilevel classification using ECG images by Mohammed Abdul Basith Ali Khan, Edara Sreenivasa Reddy

“…If it is categorized as abnormal, a second-level classification is performed using EfficientNet-DBN, which classifies myocardial infarction and COVID-19 patients. The Pearson's correlation coefficient was used for the post-COVID correlation study. …”
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Hepatocellular Carcinoma to the Right Ventricle by George R. Marzouka, Apurva Badheka, Alexis P. Rodriguez, Sandra V. Chaparro

“…An MRI of the heart revealed a 4.4 × 3.4 × 4.0 cm mass within the right ventricular apex, which was subsequently biopsied and found to be moderately differentiated HCC with myocardial fragments. The patient opted out of any further therapy, or intervention, and was enrolled in hospice care.…”
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Wnt/β-catenin and notch signaling pathways in cardiovascular disease: Mechanisms and therapeutics approaches by Manizheh Azhdari, Axel zur Hausen

“…Dysregulation of Wnt and Notch signaling has been involved in the pathogenesis of numerous cardiovascular diseases, including atherosclerosis, hypertension, myocardial infarction, and heart failure. Abnormal activation or suppression of these pathways in specific cell types can contribute to endothelial dysfunction, vascular remodeling, cardiomyocyte hypertrophy, impaired cardiac contractility and dead. …”
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Pharmacological Therapy in the Heart as an Alternative to Cellular Therapy: A Place for the Brain Natriuretic Peptide? by Nathalie Rosenblatt-Velin, Suzanne Badoux, Lucas Liaudet

“…To illustrate such approach, we present recent results showing that the exogenous administration of the natriuretic peptide BNP triggers “endogenous” cardiac regeneration, following experimental myocardial infarction.…”
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Mitral and tricuspid stenosis caused by light chain cardiac amyloid deposition by Varinder K. Randhawa, Sneha Vakamudi, Dermot M. Phelan, Christy J. Samaras, Jesse K. McKenney, Mazen Hanna, Antonio L. Perez

“…Abstract Cardiac amyloidosis results in an infiltrative restrictive cardiomyopathy, with a number of characteristic features: biventricular hypertrophy, abnormal myocardial global longitudinal strain with relative apical sparing, biatrial dilation, and small pericardial effusion along with conduction abnormalities. …”
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Clinical Outcomes of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Nonagenarians: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Yan Liu, Yu Du, Mingjie Fu, Yue Ma, Deguang Wang, Jinglin Zhang, Wei Liu, Yingxin Zhao, Yujie Zhou

“…There were no significant differences in the rate of myocardial infarction, stage 2 or 3 acute kidney injury, new pacemaker implantation, or conversion to surgical aortic valve replacement. …”
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Integrating melt electrospinning writing and microfluidics to engineer a human cardiac microenvironment for high-fidelity drug screening by Yu-hong Wang, Ting-ting Liu, Yan-ping Guo, Shuo-ji Zhu, Zi-ming Liao, Jia-mei Song, Xi-ming Zhu, Jia-liang Liang, Moussa Ide Nasser, Nan-bo Liu, De-hua Chang, Ping Zhu, Bin Yao

“…Taken together, these results highlight the ability of our myocardial microarray platform to accurately reflect clinical behaviour, underscoring its potential as a powerful pre-clinical tool for assessing drug response and toxicity.…”
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