Cardiology General
Jan 26, 2022
It’s nearly impossible to avoid screen time these days; between smartphones, TVs, computers, and tablets, almost everyone’s daily routine revolves around time spent on screens. That includes child...
Jan 24, 2022
To develop and validate a predictive model to determinate patients at increased risk to suffer from recurrence following a first provoked deep vein thrombosis (VTE).Predictive variables, i.e. male sex...
Jan 24, 2022
Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is characterized by arterial and/or venous thrombosis with antiphospholipid antibodies. Dysregulation of the complement pathway has been implicated in APS pathophysiolo...
Jan 24, 2022
Coagulation mechanisms are critical for maintaining homeostasis in the central nervous system (CNS). Thrombin, an important player of the coagulation cascade, activates protease activator receptors (P...
Jan 24, 2022
Aspirin (ASA) is widely used as an antiplatelet therapeutic drug in secondary prevention. Last years brought many reports on ASA resistance or high on-treatment platelet reactivity (HTPR) to aspirin.T...
Jan 24, 2022
Physical inactivity, prolonged sitting, and unhealthy dietary habits are common in Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) drivers. These factors increase risk of long-term health conditions.329 HGV drivers across ...
Jan 24, 2022
Extracellular matrix proteins are regulated by metzincin proteases, like the disintegrin metalloproteinases with thrombospondin motifs (ADAMTS) family members. This review focuses on the emerging role...
Jan 24, 2022
Fingertip reactive hyperemia-peripheral artery tonometry (RH-PAT) is an emerging novel non-invasive method for evaluating endothelial function. We aimed to evaluate endothelial function with fingertip...
Jan 24, 2022
In recent years, the prevalence and mortality of heart failure (HF) and other associated cardiovascular diseases have doubled in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Studies in high-income countries indicate tha...
Jan 24, 2022
To investigate whether co-administration of antiarrhythmic dronedarone and anticoagulant rivaroxaban would increase the risks of hemorrhage after atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation.A total of 100 patie...
Jan 17, 2022
Intestinal Failure (IF) is a rare but serious form of organ failure, and patients with IF are dependent on Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) to maintain growth and development. This study aimed to desc...
Jan 17, 2022
There is a gap of knowledge regarding cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) ion concentrations in normal and pathological states, particularly during the neonatal period. We aim to compare CSF ion concentrations ...
Jan 17, 2022
Renal dysfunction has been reported to be associated with larger hematoma volume in intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) due to concomitant nutritional imbalances and platelet dysfunction; however, this ass...
Jan 17, 2022
Conventional contact-based electroanatomic mapping is poorly suited for rapid or dynamic ventricular arrhythmias. Whole-chamber charge density (CD) mapping could efficiently characterize complex ventr...
Jan 17, 2022
Obstruction of blood flow due to thrombosis is a major cause of ischemic stroke, myocardial infarction, and in severe cases, mortality. In particular, in blood wetting medical devices, thrombosis is a...
Jan 17, 2022
To evaluate optic nerve sheath diameter in the acute phase of patients with malignant ischemic middle cerebral artery stroke submitted or not to decompressive craniectomy surgery.Forty patients partic...
Jan 17, 2022
Acute lung injury (ALI) is one the most common causes of morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients. In this study, we examined for first time the role of dapagliflozin (DPGZ) in lipopolysacch...
Jan 17, 2022
Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) have demonstrated ability to improve diabetic nephropathy (DN) in experimental models, as well as by improving kidney endogenous progenitor cells proliferation and diff...
Jan 17, 2022
The efficacy of sacubitril/valsartan, a newly introduced combination drug for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), was demonstrated in the PARADIGM-HF trial conducted in Western count...
Jan 17, 2022
Functional loss of endothelial cells will lead to development and progression of atherosclerosis in diabetic patients. However, dysfunction of endothelial cells in diabetes has yet to be fully underst...