Cardiology

The Impact of the International Cooperation On Familial Hypercholesterolemia Screening and Treatment: Results from the ScreenPro FH Project.

The Impact of the International Cooperation On Familial Hypercholesterolemia Screening and Treatment: Results from the ScreenPro FH Project. Curr Atheroscler Rep. 2019 Jun 22;21(9):36 Authors: Ceska R, Latkovskis G, Ezhov...

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Iron deficiency as therapeutic target in heart failure: a translational approach.

Iron deficiency as therapeutic target in heart failure: a translational approach. Heart Fail Rev. 2019 Jun 22;: Authors: Bakogiannis C, Briasoulis A, Mouselimis D, Tsarouchas A, Papageorgiou N, Papadopoulos C,...

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Cocoa shells may help prevent obesity-induced insulin resistance

A study of immune and fat cells from mice found that cocoa shell extract can reduce and prevent some of the cell dysfunctions that can result from obesity. Source link

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5 Reasons You Should Laugh Everyday

Does anything feel better than a really honest belly laugh? For years, studies have shown how laughing through life is beneficial for your health. Laughing lowers stress, reduces anger, and forces...

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PPCM and the endocrine system

We sincerely thank Dr Jolobe for the response to our paper1 and very much appreciate the interesting addition2 to the discussion on this difficult topic. It is true that autoimmunity...

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A New Index for Pre-Operative Cardiovascular Evaluation

AbstractBackground Currently used indices for pre-operative cardiovascular evaluation are either powerful, but complex, or simple, but with weak discriminatory power. Objectives This study sought to prospectively derive and validate a...

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Pre-Operative Risk Prediction: Will Better Tools Produce Better Outcomes?

Pre-Operative Risk Prediction: Will Better Tools Produce Better Outcomes? Source link

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Predicting Post-Fontan Length of Stay: The Limits of Measured Variables.

Predicting Post-Fontan Length of Stay: The Limits of Measured Variables. Pediatr Cardiol. 2019 Jun 22;: Authors: Martin BJ, McBrien A, Marchak BE, Atallah J, Al Aklabi M, Mackie AS Abstract...

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Does Ex Vivo Perfusion Lead to More or Less Intimal Thickening in the First-year Post-Heart Transplantation?

Does Ex Vivo Perfusion Lead to More or Less Intimal Thickening in the First-year Post-Heart Transplantation? Clin Transplant. 2019 Jun 23;:e13648 Authors: Sato T, Azarbal B, Cheng R, Esmailian F,...

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Perioperative changes of the slope in the preload recruitable stroke work relationship by a single-beat technique after mitral valve surgery in functional mitral regurgitation with non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy.

Perioperative changes of the slope in the preload recruitable stroke work relationship by a single-beat technique after mitral valve surgery in functional mitral regurgitation with non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy. Gen Thorac...

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How calcium in coronary arteries can predict future heart health

According to one new study, having high levels of calcium in the coronary arteries could be responsible for detrimental changes to the structure of the heart.A new study investigates calcium...

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When you ignore pain because you’re used to it…

People who live with more than one chronic illness diagnosis face the need to figure out which condition to blame for each serious symptom. But sometimes, it's a brand spanking...

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Prognostic value of soluble ST2 in adults with congenital heart disease

Objective Soluble suppression of tumourigenicity-2 (sST2) is upregulated as response to myocardial stress and may be a potential biomarker for risk stratification in patients with adult congenital heart disease (ACHD)....

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Cardiac Resynchronization Defibrillator Therapy for Nonspecific Intraventricular Conduction Delay Versus Right Bundle Branch Block

AbstractBackground The benefits of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) in patients with non-left bundle branch block (LBBB) conduction abnormality have not been fully explored. Objectives This study sought to evaluate clinical...

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Electrocardiogram in Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: Is Non-Left Bundle Branch Block an Oversimplification?

Electrocardiogram in Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: Is Non-Left Bundle Branch Block an Oversimplification? Source link

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Curcumin for the prevention of myocardial injury following elective percutaneous coronary intervention; a pilot randomized clinical trial.

Related Articles Curcumin for the prevention of myocardial injury following elective percutaneous coronary intervention; a pilot randomized clinical trial. Eur J Pharmacol. 2019 Jun 19;:172471 Authors: Aslanabadi N, Entezari-Maleki T,...

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Canadian-Australasian Randomised trial of screening kidney transplant candidates for coronary artery disease-A trial protocol for the CARSK study.

Related Articles Canadian-Australasian Randomised trial of screening kidney transplant candidates for coronary artery disease-A trial protocol for the CARSK study. Am Heart J. 2019 May 22;214:175-183 Authors: Ying T, Gill...

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Summer Book Sale!

It's officially summer! And that means you can save 40% off the cover price of "A Woman's Guide to Living with Heart Disease" by using the discount code HHOL when...

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Was the past perfect ? I don’t know, but the future looks tense… welcome on-board, to automated ACS management.

Charles river esplanade ,Boston* : A healthy middle-aged man who was jogging quietly, while his heart was under intense scrutiny by the bionic eyes of Apple i-watch’s smart patch electrode....

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Postpartum cardiomyopathy and endocrinopathy

To the Editor, The wide-ranging discussion of the aetiopathogenesis of postpartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM)1 would be incomplete if no mention were made of the association of PPCM and endocrinopathy.2–5 In some cases...

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