Cao, Jian Dong, Ran Zhang, Kui Zhang, Hongjia
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Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy
Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) caused by coronary heart disease (CHD) accounts for the largest proportion of patients with heart failure and is associated with the poorest prognosis. However, date on the perioperative risk and long-term survival of patients with HFrEF are limited. The present study aimed at exploring the effec...
Song, Bangrong Yao, Bo Dang, Haiming Dong, Ran
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Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common chromosomal abnormal heart disease. The pathophysiological mechanism of HCM is complex. Several studies have suggested that the level of Soluble ST2 (sST2) may be a biomarker of chronic systolic heart failure, however, the role of sST2 in HCM remains unclear. So we performed this study to analyze...
Pecoraro, Alfonso Jan Doubell, Anton Frans
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Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy
Infective endocarditis (IE) is defined by infection of either a native or prosthetic heart valve, endocardial surface or any cardiac prosthetic device. It is a disease of both the developed and developing world, although IE has evolved in the developed world to a disease markedly different to the disease encountered in the developing world. IE in d...
Song, Linsheng Ma, Xiaohai Zhao, Xinxiang Zhao, Lei DeLano, Mark Fan, Yang Wu, Bin Lu, Aijia Tian, Jie He, Liping
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Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy
The pathological Q-wave (QW) is an important indicator of infarcted myocardial volume indicating a worse prognosis compared to non-Q-wave (NQW) infarctions. Traditional classification divides infarcts into transmural and non-transmural based on QW and NQW. This view has been challenged by the advent of late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) MR imaging. ...
Dzudie, Anastase Dzekem, Bonaventure Suiru Ojji, Dike B Kengne, Andre Pascal Mocumbi, Ana Olga Sliwa, Karen Thienemann, Friedrich
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Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a devastating, progressive disease with increasingly debilitating symptoms and usually shortened overall life expectancy. This article reviews the global epidemiology of PH with focus on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and sub-Sahara African in particular. Although left ventricular heart disease is the most c...
He, Yuchen Han, Yanshuo Xing, Jia Zhai, Xiaoyue Wang, Shiyue Xin, Shijie Zhang, Jian
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Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy
Kallistatin (KS), encoded by SERPINA4, was suggested to play a protective role in many cardiovascular diseases. However, its role in the pathogenesis of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) remains unclear. The aim of this study was to examine the potential association of KS with AAA pathogenesis. We examined KS (SERPINA4) expression in human AAA by PCR...
Ojji, Dike Libhaber, Elena Lamont, Kim Thienemann, Friedrich Sliwa, Karen
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Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy
Although the varying phenotypic spectra of hypertensive heart disease (HHD) can be assessed by electrocardiography (ECG), echocardiography and cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR), ECG criteria for left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) are insensitive, while echocardiography and CMR are expensive, less readily available and often lack requisite exp...
Naicker, Kishendree Ntsekhe, Mpiko
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Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy
Tuberculous pericarditis (TBP) is the most important manifestation of tuberculous heart disease and is still associated with a significant morbidity and mortality in TB endemic areas. The high prevalence of the disorder over the last 3 decades has been fueled by the human immunodeficiency virus/AIDS (HIV/AIDS) pandemic in these areas. The objective...
Zhang, Xin Gu, Kai Miao, Shumei Zhang, Xiaoliang Yin, Yuechuchu Wan, Cheng Yu, Yun Hu, Jie Wang, Zhongmin Shan, Tao
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Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy
Automated electrocardiogram (ECG) diagnosis could be a useful aid for clinical use. We applied a deep learning method to build a system for automated detection and classification of ECG signals. We first trained a convolutional neural network (CNN) to detect cardiovascular disease in ECG signals using a training data set of 259,789 ECG signals coll...
Peters, Ferande Karthikeyan, Ganesan Abrams, Jessica Muhwava, Lorrein Zühlke, Liesl
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Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is the only preventable cardiovascular disease which causes significant morbidity and mortality particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Early clinical diagnosis is key, the updated Jones criteria increases the likelihood of diagnosis in endemic settings, including the echo diagnosis of sub-clinical carditis, ...
