- Vitamin A as a Transcriptional Regulator of Cardiovascular Disease
Vitamin A is a micronutrient and signaling molecule that regulates transcription, cellular differentiation, and organ homeostasis. Additionally, metabolites of Vitamin A are utilized as differentiatio... Read More
- Review of Studies Reporting the Incidence of Acute Type B Aortic Dissection
Aortic dissection (AD) causes more deaths each year in the United Kingdom than road traffic collisions. Yet the incidence of AD is not known. The management of acute type B AD (TBAD) is changing, with... Read More
- Cardiovascular Imaging Applications in Clinical Management of Patients Treated with Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
Cardiovascular imaging techniques, including echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, multi-slice computed tomography, and cardiac magnetic resonance, have wide applications in cardiac resynchronization ... Read More
- Optical Mapping in hiPSC-CM and Zebrafish to Resolve Cardiac Arrhythmias
Inherited cardiac arrhythmias contribute substantially to sudden cardiac death in the young. The underlying pathophysiology remains incompletely understood because of the lack of representative study ... Read More
- Life Threatening Reactive Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Due to Increased Blood Flow after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
A 68-year-old patient with triple vessel coronary artery disease was scheduled for elective coronary artery bypass grafting. Three days after the uneventful surgery, the patient went into cardiogenic ... Read More
- Non-Invasive Assessment of Pulmonary Vasculopathy
Right heart catheterization remains necessary for the diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension and, therefore, for the prognostic evaluation of patients with chronic heart failure. The non-invaSive Assessm... Read More
- Cardiac Stimulation in the Third Millennium: Where Do We Head from Here
Over the years, pacemakers have evolved from a life-saving tool to prevent asystole to a device to treat heart rhythm disorders and heart failure, aiming at improving both cardiac function and clinica... Read More
- Heart Rate Variability Relates with Competition Performance in Professional Soccer Players
Background: Heart rate variability (HRV) is widely used in professional soccer players as a tool to assess individual response to training load. Different devices and methods are available for HRV ass... Read More
- Diagnosis, Prevention, Treatment and Surveillance of Anthracycline-Induced Cardiovascular Toxicity in Pediatric Cancer Survivors
Advances in pediatric cancer therapies have dramatically improved the likelihood of survival. As survivors are aging, however, we are now understanding that treatment carries a significant risk of car... Read More
- Risk Stratification and Management of Arterial Hypertension and Cardiovascular Adverse Events Related to Cancer Treatments: An Oncology Network from Piedmont and Aosta Valley (North-Western Italy) Consensus Document
Cancer patients receiving a potentially cardiotoxic oncologic therapy have an increased risk of cardiovascular adverse events (CVAEs), especially in presence of concomitant arterial hypertension (AH).... Read More
- Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair with the MitraClip System in the Current Clinical Practice
Severe mitral valve regurgitation (MR) carries a significant burden both in prognosis and quality of life of patients, as well as on healthcare systems, with high rates of hospitalization for heart fa... Read More
- Cardiac Development: A Glimpse on Its Translational Contributions
Cardiac development is a complex developmental process that is initiated soon after gastrulation, as two sets of precardiac mesodermal precursors are symmetrically located and subsequently fused at th... Read More
- Impact of Obstructive Sleep Apnea on In-Hospital Outcomes of Patients with Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Background: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is one of the most common breathing disorders. There are uncertainties about its impact on the in-hospital outcomes of patients who suffer acute coronary synd... Read More
- Durable Continuous-Flow Mechanical Circulatory Support: State of the Art
Implantable mechanical circulatory support (MCS) systems for ventricular assist device (VAD) therapy have emerged as an important strategy due to a shortage of donor organs for heart transplantation. ... Read More
- Extracellular and Intracellular Magnesium Deficiency Found in Pregnant Women with Preeclampsia and Gestational Diabetes Is Associated with Overexpression of Notch Proteins, Cytokines, p53, NF-kB and Proto-Oncogenes: Potential Importance in Growth Retardation, Stillbirths, Fetal Mutations and Increased Cardiovascular Risks and Stroke with Advancing Age in Pregnant Women
In 1983, three of us reported in Science that umbilical-placental arteries and veins, obtained from normal pregnant women at term delivery, when exposed in vitro to low concentrations of Mg2+ went i... Read More
- Cardiac Contractility Modulation in Patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction
Cardiac contractility modulation is an innovative therapy conceived for the treatment of heart failure. It is a device-based therapy, employing multiple electrodes to deliver relatively high-voltage (... Read More
- Molecular Basis of Atrial Fibrillation Initiation and Maintenance
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia, largely associated to morbidity and mortality. Over the past decades, research in appearance and progression of this arrhythmia have tur... Read More
- Technical Modifications for Ductal Stenting in Neonates with Duct-Dependent Pulmonary Circulation
The ductal stenting (DS) is currently an acceptable palliative treatment in newborns suffering with duct-dependent pulmonary circulation. However, this procedure remains technically a challenge in com... Read More
- A Historical Perspective of Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device Infection: How a Menace Can Drive Technological and Clinical Improvement
In recent decades there has been a relevant increase in the implantation rate of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs), albeit with relevant geographical inhomogeneities. Despite the positive... Read More
- Is Greater Than 0.5 MAC Inhalational Agent Use Post-Bypass Related to Need for Inotropic and/or Vasoconstrictor Support
Background and Aims: We hypothesized that maintaining a patient on moderatehigh doses of potent inhalational agent for greater than 30 min during the post-bypass period would be an independent predic... Read More
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