Angiogenic markers (sFLt1 and PlGF) are altered in preeclampsia and related placental insufficiency syndromes. The utility of these markers in various types of placental insufficiency is sti...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is considered a public health problem and part of the growing burden of noncommunicable diseases. Many studies have searched for ways to reduce the risk of compl...
Kidney involvement, ranging from mild hematuria and proteinuria to acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients with coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), is a recent finding with various incidence ...
Women who smoke during pregnancy have a reduced risk of preeclampsia. The mechanism of this association is poorly understood. Preeclampsia is an anti-angiogenic and inflammatory state. Trans...
Utilizing transfer function analysis to assess the cerebral autoregulation in patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), and to explore its improvement after venous sinus sten...
The severity of early brain edema after aneurysm rupture was reported to be strongly associated with the risk of poor outcome after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Using the recent...
Surgical drains are routinely used following autologous reconstruction, but are often cited as the leading cause of peri-operative discomfort. This study defined routine drain use duratio...
To assess adherence to anti-hypertensive medication by pregnant women and to identify the factors associated with adherence or lack thereof.Observational study in 100 pregnant women with eit...
Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) is an important factor related to cardiovascular disease. In recent years, studies have shown the involvement of IGF-1 and blood pressure (BP). Neverthel...
Non-selective betablockers (NSBB) exert beneficial effects beyond lowering hepatic venous pressure gradient (HVPG), which may be particularly relevant in patients with decompensated cirrhosi...
Medulloblastoma (MDB) often causes signs and symptoms of elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) with imaging findings of mass lesion. Here, we report a case of MDB who initially presented with...
Cardiac output determination is essential in precapillary pulmonary hypertension. While direct Fick is the gold standard, thermodilution is commonly used as the reference method. Moving to n...
Depressed right ventricular ejection fraction (RVEF) has clear prognostic significance in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Accordingly, improvements in RVEF represent a d...
mRNA COVID-19 vaccines have shown high effectiveness in the prevention of symptomatic COVID-19, hospitalization, severe disease, and death. Nevertheless, a minority of vaccinated individuals...
In 2017, the American College of Cardiology/ American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) guidelines redefined the threshold of high blood pressure (BP) for non-pregnant adults. Several studies aime...
In patients with obesity the distribution of subcutaneous tissue can make blood pressure measurement on the standard location of the upper arm difficult. In these cases, alternative location...
To study changes in cardiovascular (CV) risk factors; hypertension (HTN), dysglycaemia (DG) and dyslipidaemia (DL) and their interrelationship, in urban and rural Southern India, in a decade...
An isolated intraventricular cerebral varix is a rare entity. Although it is generally asymptomatic, there have been reports of symptomatic cases. Here, we report a case of right hemiplegia ...
Leukoaraiosis (LA) is a finding in the elderly, that might be asymptomatic or can impact their motor and cognitive functions. We studied the presence of LA in the MRI of patients with AIS an...
Levosimendan is a calcium sensitizer and opens adenosine triphosphate-dependent potassium channels. Since 20 years, it is approved for acute decompensated heart failure. It has been tested i...
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