Echocardiography indicators in patients with atherosclerosis of peripheral arteries of the lower extremities dependent on T(–786)C polymorphism of the endothelial nitric oxide synt... by V.I. Tseluyko, O.D. Yarova

“…Systolic and diastolic dysfunction of the left ventricle myocardium were significantly more common in patients with coronary heart disease (p = 0.046; χ² = 3.95 and p = 0.02; χ² = 5.41 respectively). …”
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Wenxin Granules Influence the TGFβ-P38/JNK MAPK Signaling Pathway and Attenuate the Collagen Deposition in the Left Ventricle of Myocardial Infarction Rats by Ya Huang, Aiming Wu, Lixia Lou, Dongmei Zhang, Bo Nie, Yizhou Zhao, Keke Liu, Mingjing Zhao, Hongcai Shang

“…Wenxin granules could significantly improve the hemodynamics, so that the fibrosis scar was relatively dense and uniform, and the residual myocardium was relatively neat, while Collagen type I and III volume and TGFβ expression levels were lessened. …”
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Magnetic Nanoparticles for Targeting and Imaging of Stem Cells in Myocardial Infarction by Michelle R. Santoso, Phillip C. Yang

“…Despite extensive efforts to optimize cardiac stem cell therapy, challenges remain in the delivery and monitoring of cells injected into the myocardium. Other fields have successively used nanoscience and nanotechnology for a multitude of biomedical applications, including drug delivery, targeted imaging, hyperthermia, and tissue repair. …”
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with mid-ventricular obstruction and apical aneurysm by N.D. Oryshchyn, Yu.A. Ivaniv, Yu.H. Kyjak, S.S. Pavlyk, V.S. Moroz, D.I. Besh, I.M. Bigun

“…Electronic microscopy of myocardium confirmed the diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.…”
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Role of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Detecting Myocardial Viability in Patients with Chronic Ischaemic Heart Disease: A Prospective Observational Study by Subhosree Dey, Parul Dutta, Bornali Dutta, Baloy Jyoti Talukdar, Sushant Agarwal, Dhiraj Baruah

“…Introduction: Myocardial viability refers to a phenomenon in which dysfunctional myocardium, due to acute or chronic ischaemia, retains the potential to recover its systolic function after revascularisation. …”
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Case Report: TAVI in a Patient with Single Coronary Artery and Bicuspid Valve by Murielle Bertin, Mohamed Aboukofa, Pierre Francois Laterre, Zuhair Yousif

“…A single coronary artery is a rare congenital abnormality which consists of one coronary artery arising from the aortic trunk by a single coronary ostium and providing the perfusion of the entire myocardium. Its prevalence is approximately 0.024-0.066% of the population undergoing coronary angiography. …”
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Contemporary treatment of right ventricular failure by Bibhuti B. Das, MD, Shashi Raj, MD, FAAP, FACC

“…This review explores the etiology, mechanisms, and pathophysiology of RVF, drugs directly targeting the RV myocardium, the intricate biological processes between RV and pulmonary vascular remodeling, surgical and device therapies, and future perspectives on managing RVF.…”
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Cardiac Expression of Tnnt1 Requires the GATA4-FOG2 Transcription Complex by Nikolay L. Manuylov, Sergei G. Tevosian

“…We report here that cardiac expression of slow skeletal troponin T (Tnnt1) strictly depends on the physical interaction between GATA4-FOG2 in the myocardium of both atria and ventricles.…”
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Hemopericardium and Cardiac Tamponade Secondary to Migrated Inferior Vena Cava Filter by Jeet J. Mehta, Benjamin DeMarco, John P. Vavalle, Khola S. Tahir, Joseph S. Rossi

“…Imaging revealed two fractured legs of an inferior vena cava filter, with one leg within the anterior myocardium of the right ventricle and another penetrating the inferior septum through the middle cardiac vein. …”
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Myocardial viability with a new technique in the echocardiogram of stress. by Leonel de Armas Rodríguez, Carlos Yun Angarica, Niurka Moreno Rodríguez, Juan Prohías Martínez, Angel G. Obregón Santos

“…<strong>Objective:</strong> To determine the precision in the diagnosis of viable myocardium of digitized images of stress echocardiography with Dobutamina. …”
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Role of glucocorticoid receptor expression in Chronic Chagas Cardiomyopathy: implications for inflammation and cardiac hypertrophy by Florencia B. González, Florencia B. González, Antonella Pacini, Araceli Castro, Susana Lioi, Silvina R. Villar, Silvina R. Villar, Luciano D’Attilio, Luciano D’Attilio, Rodolfo D. Leiva, Rodolfo D. Leiva, Liliana Favaloro, Oscar A. Bottasso, Oscar A. Bottasso, Carlos A. Vigliano, Carlos A. Vigliano, Ana Rosa Pérez, Ana Rosa Pérez

“…However, the involvement of glucocorticoid receptors (GR) and their isoforms have been unexplored.Materials and methodsThe expression of GR-α/β isoforms, 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type-1 (11β-HSD1), inflammatory cytokines, and the GC-regulated gene tristetraprolin (TTP) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) as well as GR immunoreactivity in the myocardium from CCC individuals were evaluated by qPCR and immunohistochemistry respectively. …”
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Cell Therapies for Heart Function Recovery: Focus on Myocardial Tissue Engineering and Nanotechnologies by Marie-Noëlle Giraud, Anne Géraldine Guex, Hendrik T. Tevaearai

“…Cell therapies have gained increasing interest and developed in several approaches related to the treatment of damaged myocardium. The results of multiple clinical trials have already been reported, almost exclusively involving the direct injection of stem cells. …”
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Alteration of Energy Substrates and ROS Production in Diabetic Cardiomyopathy by O. Lorenzo, E. Ramírez, B. Picatoste, J. Egido, J. Tuñón

“…However, the presence of these species can be essential for physiological responses in the diabetic myocardium.…”
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Lung Metastases to the Heart with Atypical Clinical Manifestations of Cardiac Failure by Natalia HYRIAVENKO, Vladyslav SIKORA, Wireko Andrew AWUAH, Toufik ABDUL-RAHMAN, Mykola LYNDIN, Anatolii ROMANIUK

“…This report presents a case of lung cancer metastases to the left ventricular myocardium that clinically manifested as atypical symptoms of cardiac dysfunction. …”
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Sudden Cardiac Arrest in a Youth with Multiple Arrhythmic Substrates by James Ainsworth, Adrian Ionescu

“…Mitral annular disjunction (MAD) is a separation of the MV attachment with the left ventricle, with hypermobility of the leaflets, and with systolic “curling” of the basal LV (left ventricle) myocardium. It is frequently associated with MVP and may confer an increased arrhythmic risk. …”
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Cardiomyopathy Classification: Ongoing Debate in the Genomics Era by Charles McCartan, Robert Mason, S. R. Jayasinghe, Lyn R. Griffiths

“…Cardiomyopathies represent a group of diseases of the myocardium of the heart and include diseases both primarily of the cardiac muscle and systemic diseases leading to adverse effects on the heart muscle size, shape, and function. …”
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Focal Left Atrial Tachycardia in a Patient with Left Ventricular Noncompaction by Shailendra Singh, Gulam Parihar, Rohit Rao, Vishal Goyal

“…Left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC) is a rare disease caused by intrauterine failure of the myocardium to compact. The major clinical manifestations of LVNC include heart failure, ventricular tachyarrhythmia, thromboembolic event, and sudden deaths. …”
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Valvular Cardiomyopathy: The Value of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Vasiliki Tsampasian, Sandeep S. Hothi, Thuwarahan Ravindrarajah, Andrew J. Swift, Pankaj Garg, Vassilios S. Vassiliou

“…With its increasing use, CMR allows for a detailed, reproducible, qualitative, and quantitative evaluation of left ventricular volumes and mass, thereby enabling assessment of the haemodynamic impact of a valvular lesion upon the myocardium. Postprocessing of the routinely acquired images with feature tracking CMR methodology can give invaluable information about myocardial deformation and strain parameters that suggest subclinical ventricular impairment that remains undetected by conventional measures such as the ejection fraction (EF). …”
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Lupus Pneumonitis Therapy Masks Coronavirus (COVID-19) by S. Soloway, N. L. DePace, A. M. Soloway, J. Colombo

“…Lupus may cause inflammation of the myocardium. Lupus pneumonitis high-dose steroid therapy may mask coronavirus (COVID-19). …”
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Cardiac regeneration: 20 years of development and update in zebrafish and mouse by Lekun Gui, Lijun Jin, Huangjun Liu

“…Zebrafish are extremely sensitive to cardiac injury and, within a short period, stimulate the proliferation of cardiomyocytes in numbers that fully regenerate to pre-injury levels; meanwhile, the initial scarring is gradually absorbed until there is little or no visible sign of fibrosis in the regenerating myocardium. The newborn mouse heart has the same remarkable regenerative potential before birth as one week after cardiac injury. …”
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