Risk awareness in secondary stroke prevention: a review of the literature [0.03%]
卒中二级预防中的风险意识研究：文献综述
Julia Slark,Pankaj Sharma
Julia Slark
Despite improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease through medical advances, it remains the largest single cause of disability and the second leading cause of death on a global scale. Despite this, patient awarene...
Computed tomography coronary angiography: Is radiation a concern for the gold standard test for anomalous coronary arteries? [0.03%]
冠状动脉CT造影检查：对于异常起源的冠脉而言，是否可以称之为金标准检查手段？(关于辐射的问题)
Khaled Alfakih,Sanjay Sharma
Khaled Alfakih
Multi-detector computed tomography is now an established modality for the investigation of coronary artery disease.1,2^ 64-Slice multi-detector computed tomography is the standard requirement by the British society of cardiac imaging and ca...
Concomitant elective resection of pheochromocytoma and repair of aortic abdominal aneurysm [0.03%]
同时选择性切除嗜铬细胞瘤和修复腹主动脉瘤手术
Christina Matadial,Jadelis Giquel,Ricardo Martinez-Ruiz
Christina Matadial
Perioperative management of a patient with ischemic heart disease with coexisting abdominal aortic aneurysm and pheochromocytoma creates a difficult management dilemma, and surgical intervention in these patients carries a significant risk....
Keeping a finger on the pulse: Cardiovascular disease rate as a measure of sustainable development [0.03%]
把握脉搏：心血管疾病率作为可持续发展的衡量标准
Nazeeha Hasan
Nazeeha Hasan
Non-communicable diseases have been somewhat neglected as a public health issue in the past, but there is now growing international consensus that they present a significant obstacle to economic development for both high- and low-income cou...
Catheter-based renal denervation for treatment of resistant hypertension [0.03%]
导管介引导肾交感神经消融治疗难治性高血压
Emine Hatipoglu,Albert Ferro
Emine Hatipoglu
Hypertension is a common disease associated with important cardiovascular complications. Persistent blood pressure of 140/90 or higher despite combined use of a reninangiotensin system blocker, calcium channel blocker and a diuretic at high...
Thrombolysis of an acute stroke presentation with an incidental unruptured aneurysm [0.03%]
急性脑卒中伴意外未破裂动脉瘤的溶栓治疗
J Ganesalingam,R Redwood,Ih Jenkins
J Ganesalingam
Many patients with acute ischaemic stroke have contraindications to thrombolytic therapy. We describe a 45 yr old Afro-Caribbean female with HbSC disease whom was electively admitted for a cerebral angiogram to evaluate an intracavernous an...
Puneet Kakar,Andreas Charidimou,David J Werring
Puneet Kakar
Cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) are an increasingly common neuroimaging finding in the context of ageing, cerebrovascular disease and dementia, with potentially important clinical relevance. Perhaps the most pressing clinical question is whethe...
Cerebrovascular disease in South Asia - Part II: Risk factors and prevention [0.03%]
南亚的脑血管疾病（第二部分）：危险因素和预防措施
Deepti Vibha,Kameshwar Prasad
Deepti Vibha
In South Asian countries, conventional vascular risk factors like hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cardiac disease, smoking, obesity, atrial fibrillation are the dominant ones, while other aetiologies like rheumatic heart disease, infective...
G S Kanaganayagam,I S Malik
G S Kanaganayagam
A patent foramen ovale (PFO) has been associated with medical conditions such as cryptogenic stroke, migraine with aura, and decompression illness. Whether closure of the PFO has clinical benefit has been suggested from registry studies, bu...
Kameshwar Prasad,Deepti Vibha,Meenakshi
Kameshwar Prasad
Stroke is a non-communicable disease of increasing socioeconomic importance in ageing populations. According to the World Health Organization, stroke was the second most common cause of worldwide mortality. In South Asian countries demograp...