The purpose of this study was to determine the rate of short-term complications after TEA and identify predictors of readmission and reoperation. We hypothesized that TEA performed for acute...
To assess the degree of hypoxia and subjective dyspnoea elicited by a 6-minute walking test (6 MWT) in COVID-19 patients prior to discharge.A 6 MWT was performed in 26 discharge-ready CO...
There is a high prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients with heart failure presented for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). It remains unclear whether an atrial lead should ...
CKD-HF patients suffer excess hospitalization and mortality, often under-treated with life-prolonging medications due to fear of worsening renal function and hyperkalaemia. Yet, role of inte...
The aging of the population leads us to treat older patients, in particular presenting with acute limb ischemia (ALI). However there has been little evaluation of this pathology in the nonag...
Chronic heart failure (CHF) is characterized by higher rates of atrial fibrillation (AF) and endothelial dysfunction (ED). First line anticoagulant therapy in AF is represented by direct ora...
Fear of physical activity (FoPA) is prevalent in patients with heart failure and associated with lower physical activity despite medical exercise prescriptions. The present study examined ph...
The long-term implications of tracheostomy in cardiac surgical patients are largely unknown. We sought to investigate outcomes including decannulation and long-term mortality in a population...
Central sleep apnea is common in heart failure patients. Transvenous phrenic nerve stimulation (TPNS) requires placing a lead to stimulate the phrenic nerve and activate the diaphragm. Data ...
His bundle pacing (HBP) and left bundle pacing (LBP) are emerging as novel delivery methods for cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) in heart failure patients with left bundle branch bloc...
Digoxin reduces the risk of heart failure hospitalization but has no effect on mortality in patients with heart failure without atrial fibrillation in the randomized controlled trial setting...
Although exercise training (ET) has been shown to improve both physical function and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in older patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fracti...
Approximately 5% of patients with sarcoidosis will have cardiac involvement presenting with one or more of ventricular arrhythmias, conduction abnormalities, and heart failure. It is estima...
For the year 2019, almost 25,000 published references can be found in PubMed when entering the search term "cardiac surgery." We used the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and...
Mutations in the CFTR gene cause cystic fibrosis (CF) with myocardial dysfunction. However, it remains unknown whether CF-related heart disease is a secondary effect of pulmonary disease, or...
Hospital readmissions are common in adults with congenital heart disease (CHD) with heart failure (HF). We sought to examine the temporal risk of readmissions, the prompting diagnoses and th...
Sepsis and septic shock are life-threatening causes of acute kidney injury (AKI) frequently seen and managed in intensive care units (ICUs). Sepsis-associated AKI (SA-AKI) independently cont...
Left bundle branch area pacing (LBBAP) was reported to improve cardiac function by correcting complete left bundle branch block (CLBBB). Our study aimed to compare the efficacy of LBBAP and ...
The assessment of left ventricular (LV) function in the setting of mitral stenosis (MS) has been critically examined for decades. Accurate assessment of aberrations in diastolic function is ...
The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has already caused more than 300,000 deaths worldwide. Several studies have elucidated the central role of cardiovascular complications in t...
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