Hally, Kathryn E Holley, Ana S Kristono, Gisela A Harding, Scott A Larsen, Peter D
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Acta cardiologica
Background: Patients with myocardial infarction (MI) are at an increased risk of experiencing recurrent major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) but predicting MACE has remained challenging. Immunoglobulins are implicated in cardiovascular disease, although the predictive value of total immunoglobulin G (IgG) has not yet been evaluated in a secon...
Zhang, Shushan Yang, Yanzong Xia, Yunlong Gao, Lianjun Zhang, Xuanhe Tse, Gary Yin, Xiaomeng Dai, Shiyu Chang, Dong
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Background: Catheter ablation has been used for the treatment of tachycardia-bradycardia syndrome (TBS). However, data on its long-term effect of rhythm control and stroke are limited.Method and results: Patients with TBS admitted in the First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University from 2002 to 2013 were reviewed in the present study. A t...
Vermaete, I Dujardin, K Stammen, F
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Background: Septal reduction remains an important target of current therapeutic modalities in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM). Surgical septal myectomy has long been considered the gold standard in pharmacotherapy-refractory severely symptomatic patients with marked left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) obstruction. In recent years, ...
Di Chiara, Tiziana Tuttolomondo, Antonino Parrinello, Gaspare Colomba, Daniela Pinto, Antonio Scaglione, Rosario
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Background: It has been reported that changes in cardiac structure and ventricular function associated with obesity have to be attributable to hemodynamic and non-hemodynamic alterations. Accordingly, the aim of this was to evaluate left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) prevalence and its effect on left ventricular systolic and diastolic function in a...
Lazarevic, Aleksandar Dobric, Milan Goronja, Boris Trninic, Dijana Krivokuca, Svetozar Jovanic, Jelena Picano, Eugenio
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Background: Pleural effusion refractory to diuretic treatment is frequent in advanced heart failure. Therapeutic thoracentesis is a time-honored practice, recently made simpler and safer by guidance with lung ultrasound. To assess the feasibility and clinical impact of lung ultrasound-driven therapeutic thoracentesis in refractory heart failure.Met...
AbdelMassih, Antoine Fakhry Salama, Khaled M Ghobrial, Carolyne Haroun, Basma Rahman, Mohamed Abdel
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Introduction: Different mechanisms contribute to myocardial dysfunction in sickle cell disease [SCD] and beta thalassaemia major [TM]. TM mainly involves the highly vascular subepicardium by iron load and SCD mainly operates by inducing ischaemia in the relatively ischaemic subendocardium. The aim of this article was to determine if pattern of left...
Dereli, Seçkin Özer, Hatice Özer, Nurtaç Bayramoğlu, Adil Kaya, Ahmet
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Background: In acromegaly patients; it has been observed that heart failure may develop even in the absence of predisposing factors such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, so a specific acromegalic cardiomyopathy has been suggested. We aimed to evaluate the fQRS frequency in acromegaly patients and the left ventricular (LV) functions of acromegaly...
Yelgeç, Nizamettin Selçuk Karataş, Mehmet Baran Karabay, Can Yücel Çanga, Yiğit Şimşek, Barış Çalık, Ali Nazmi Emre, Ayşe
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Background: Lead aVR provides prognostic information in various settings for patients with cardiovascular diseases. The present study aimed to investigate the prognostic value of a positive T wave in lead aVR (TaVR) for patients with acute pulmonary embolism (APE).Methods: We screened a total of 412 consecutive patients who were hospitalised with a...
Fabien, Dupuis Michaël, Dupont Adriana, Postolache Erwin, Schroeder Stéphanie, Seldrum
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Acta cardiologica
Nestele, Jeremy van den Hoven, Carst Van Craenenbroeck, Emeline M Eyskens, Francois Paelinck, Bernard P Dendooven, Amélie Haine, Steven E
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