Serum creatinine role in predicting outcome after cardiac surgery beyond acute kidney injury [0.03%]
血清肌酐在预测心脏手术急性肾损伤后预后中的作用
Mahdi Najafi
Mahdi Najafi
Serum creatinine is still the most important determinant in the assessment of perioperative renal function and in the prediction of adverse outcome in cardiac surgery. Many biomarkers have been studied to date; still, there is no surrogate ...
Sevdalina Lambova
Sevdalina Lambova
Primary cardiac involvement, which develops as a direct consequence of systemic sclerosis (SSc), may manifest as myocardial damage, fibrosis of the conduction system, pericardial and, less frequently, as valvular disease. In addition, cardi...
Is ABO blood group truly a risk factor for thrombosis and adverse outcomes? [0.03%]
ABO血型真的是血栓和不良预后的危险因素吗？
Shan Zhou,Ian Welsby
Shan Zhou
ABO blood type is one of the most readily available laboratory tests, and serves as a vital determinant in blood transfusion and organ transplantation. The ABO antigens are expressed not only on red blood cell membranes, determining the com...
Pablo Jesus Marin Garcia,Maria Encarna Marin-Castaño
Pablo Jesus Marin Garcia
Systemic vascular disease, especially hypertension, has been suspected as a risk factor for some eye diseases including, diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration. Hypertension can contribute to chronic diseases by hemodynam...
Ventricular tachycardia mapping and ablation in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia: Lessons Learned [0.03%]
心源性右室心肌病/发育不良的室速标测与消融的经验教训
Cory M Tschabrunn,Francis E Marchlinski
Cory M Tschabrunn
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia (ARVC/D) is primarily believed to be an inherited cardiomyopathy that subsequently results in significant myocardial fibrosis. The arrhythmogenic consequences that result from the de...
Emanuela Boštjančič,Damjan Glavač
Emanuela Boštjančič
MicroRNAs (miRNAs), which are small and non-coding RNAs, are genome encoded from viruses to humans. They contribute to various developmental, physiological and pathological processes in living organisms. A huge amount of research results re...
Drug-eluting stents and acute myocardial infarction: A lethal combination or friends? [0.03%]
药物洗脱支架和急性心肌梗死：致命组合还是互补关系？
Shuji Otsuki,Manel Sabaté
Shuji Otsuki
Primary percutaneous coronary intervention is the preferred reperfusion strategy for patients presenting with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). First generation drug-eluting stents (DES), (sirolimus drug-eluting stents and...
Thrombus aspiration in acute myocardial infarction: Rationale and indication [0.03%]
急性心肌梗死患者血栓抽吸指征及机制分析
Gennaro Sardella,Rocco Edoardo Stio
Gennaro Sardella
Reperfusion of myocardial tissue is the main goal of primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) with stent implantation in the treatment of acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Although PPCI has contributed to a ...
Rosario Parisi,Francesca Mirabella,Gioel Gabrio Secco et al.
Rosario Parisi et al.
Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (AHCM) is a relatively rare morphologic variant of HCM in which the hypertrophy of myocardium is localized to the left ventricular apex. Symptoms of AHCM might vary from none to others mimic coronary arter...
Management of erectile dysfunction in hypertension: Tips and tricks [0.03%]
高血压患者的勃起功能障碍管理：注意事项和技巧提示
Margus Viigimaa,Charalambos Vlachopoulos,Antonios Lazaridis et al.
Margus Viigimaa et al.
Arterial hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and affects approximately one third of the adult population worldwide. The vascular origin of erectile dysfunction is now widely accepted in the vast majority of cases....