Pressure ulcer: an unreported complication of the Safeguard® hemostasis device. No need to crack under pressure [0.03%]
Safeguard止血装置的压疮并发症：无需过分担心
Claudio Moretti,Giorgio Quadri,Fiorenzo Gaita et al.
Claudio Moretti et al.
Diagnostic cardiac catheterizations are predominantly performed using the femoral artery access. Several devices have been developed to aid in the closure of femoral arteriotomy.Safeguard® is a new pneumatic compression device that has bee...
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Heart international. 2011;6(1):e3. DOI:10.4081/hi.2011.e3 2011
Malnutrition as assessed by nutritional risk index is associated with worse outcome in patients admitted with acute decompensated heart failure: an ACAP-HF data analysis [0.03%]
营养风险指数评估的营养不良与急性心衰住院患者的预后恶化有关——ACAP-HF数据分析结果
Emad F Aziz,Fahad Javed,Balaji Pratap et al.
Emad F Aziz et al.
Malnutrition is common at hospital admission and tends to worsen during hospitalization. This controlled population study aimed to determine if serum albumin or moderate and severe nutritional depletion by Nutritional Risk Index (NRI) at ho...
Muhammad Nadeem Attar,Hossam Elmahy,Grahame K Goode
Muhammad Nadeem Attar
Acute aortic dissection is a cardiac emergency which can present as inferior myocardial infarction. It has high morbidity and mortality requiring prompt diagnosis and treatment. Rapid advances in non-invasive imaging have facilitated the ea...
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Heart international. 2011;6(1):e1. DOI:10.4081/hi.2011.e1 2011
Subclinical coronary atherosclerosis identified by coronary computed tomographic angiography in asymptomatic morbidly obese patients [0.03%]
无症状重度肥胖患者的亚临床冠状动脉粥样硬化病变的冠状动脉CT血管造影诊断结果显示
Martin S Lubanski,Thomas E Vanhecke,Kavitha M Chinnaiyan et al.
Martin S Lubanski et al.
Obesity is a common public health problem and obese individuals in particular have a disproportionate incidence of acute coronary events. This study was undertaken to identify coronary artery lesions as well as associated clinical features,...
Bilateral coronary - pulmonary fistulae, diagnosed by transoesophageal echocardiogram [0.03%]
食管超声心动图诊断的双侧冠肺瘘
Krishna Kishor Kadappu,Rohan Rajaratnam,John K French et al.
Krishna Kishor Kadappu et al.
Bilateral coronary artery fistulae to pulmonary artery is a rare condition. We diagnosed this condition by transoesophageal echocardiogram and successfully treated with surgery. ...
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Heart international. 2010 Dec 31;5(2):e14. DOI:10.4081/hi.2010.e14 2010
Flexible band versus rigid ring annuloplasty for functional tricuspid regurgitation [0.03%]
三尖瓣反流功能环修复的弹性成形环与rigid环整形效果的对比研究
Hironori Izutani,Teruya Nakamura,Kanji Kawachi
Hironori Izutani
We review and compare our experience with tricuspid ring annuloplasty between usage of the Cosgrove-Edwards flexible band and the MC(3) rigid ring for repair of functional tricuspid regurgitation to determine the efficacy and mid-term durab...
Characterization of coronary plaques with combined use of intravascular ultrasound, virtual histology and optical coherence tomography [0.03%]
结合血管内超声、虚拟组织学及光学相干断层扫描技术分析冠状动脉斑块的特性
Guillermo Sánchez-Elvira,Isabel Coma-Canella,Miguel Artaiz et al.
Guillermo Sánchez-Elvira et al.
According to post-mortem studies, luminal thrombosis occurs from plaque rupture, erosion and calcified nodules. In vivo studies have found thin cap fibroatheroma (TCFA) as the main vulnerable lesion, prone to rupture. Few data about other p...
Framingham risk prediction equations for incidence of cardiovascular disease using detailed measures for smoking [0.03%]
基于详细吸烟信息的弗明汉心血管病发病风险预测模型
Haider Mannan,Chris Stevenson,Anna Peeters et al.
Haider Mannan et al.
Current prediction models for risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) incidence incorporate smoking as a dichotomous yes/no measure. However, the risk of CVD associated with smoking also varies with the intensity and duration of smoking and th...
Detection of severe left anterior descending coronary artery stenosis by transthoracic evaluation of resting coronary flow velocity dynamics [0.03%]
通过胸壁评价静息冠状动脉血流速度动力学检测严重前降支冠状动脉狭窄
Dawod Sharif,Amal Sharif-Rasslan,Camilia Shahla et al.
Dawod Sharif et al.
In the presence of severe stenosis, coronary artery flow may be reduced at rest. Recent advances in echocardiography have made non-invasive sampling of velocities in the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) possible. The aim of ou...
Ton J Cleophas,Aeilko H Zwinderman,Roya Atiqi et al.
Ton J Cleophas et al.
Biological processes are full of variations and so are responses to therapy as measured in clinical research. Estimators of clinical efficacy are, therefore, usually reported with a measure of uncertainty, otherwise called dispersion. This ...