Not your typical cardiac mass - Renal cell carcinoma invading the right atrium.
Not your typical cardiac mass - Renal cell carcinoma invading the right atrium.
Ionizing radiation exposure in complex percutaneous coronary intervention: Defining local diagnostic reference levels in...
Concerns regarding the consequences of ionizing radiation (IR) have been increasing in the field of interventional cardiology (IC). There is little information on reported national and local radiation diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) in catheterization laboratories in Portugal. This study was designed to assess the IR dose exposure during complex...
Three-dimensional simulation for interventional cardiology procedures: Face and content validity.
Three-dimensional (3D) model simulation provides the opportunity to manipulate real devices and learn intervention skills in a realistic, controlled, and safe environment. To ensure that simulators provide a realistic surrogate to real procedures they must undergo scientific validation. We aimed to evaluate the 3D-printed simulator SimulHeart® for ...
Minimizing ionizing radiation exposure in interventional cardiology: Still a long way to go.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Paradigm shifts in the last 30 years (Part 1).
Comparison of the accuracy of four diagnostic prediction rules for pulmonary embolism in patients admitted to the emerge...
Ruling out pulmonary embolism (PE) through a combination of clinical assessment and D-dimer level can potentially avoid excessive use of computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA). We aimed to compare the diagnostic accuracy of the standard approach based on the Wells and Geneva scores combined with a standard D-dimer cut-off (500 ng/ml), wit...
Experience from a regional percutaneous coronary intervention center: Aiming to assess and improve quality of care.
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Ischemic heart disease is the single most common cause of death in Europe. Mortality in patients presenting with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is associated with many factors, one of which is the time delay to treatment. The purpose of this work is to analyze the coronary pathway in our region in terms of timing, taking into considerat...
A galloping cardiac mass: An MRI perspective.
Home- versus centre-based EXercise InTervention in patients with Heart Failure (EXIT-HF trial): A pragmatic randomized c...
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The limited accessibility and the lack of adherence explain, in part, the low proportion of heart failure (HF) patients undergoing exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs. Home-based programs showed to be as effective and less costly than centre-based ones and might address those obstacles. Whether the evidence from international studie...
The impact of echocardiographic indexation to evaluate cardiac reverse remodeling throughout pregnancy and postpartum.
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Echocardiography guidelines suggest normalizing left ventricular (LV) volumes and mass (LVM) to body size. During pregnancy, continuous weight variation impacts on body surface area (BSA) calculation, limiting the longitudinal analysis of cardiac remodeling (CR) and reverse remodeling (RR) variables. Our aim was to identify the most common indexing...
