Recent US Patterns and Predictors of Prevalent Diabetes among Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients [0.03%]
美国急性心肌梗死患者中糖尿病流行趋势及预测因素
Bruce Ovbiagele,Daniela Markovic,Gregg C Fonarow
Bruce Ovbiagele
Background. Diabetes mellitus (DM) confers high vascular risk and is a growing national epidemic. We assessed clinical characteristics and prevalence of diagnosed DM among patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in the ...
Giant cell myocarditis with incessant ventricular arrhythmias treated successfully with methylprednisolone and rat antithymocyte globulin [0.03%]
成功采用甲基强的松龙和大鼠抗胸肌球蛋白治疗伴有持续性室性心律失常的巨大细胞心肌炎病例报告
Mudassar Baig,Rob Hatrick
Mudassar Baig
Giant cell myocarditis is an aggressive form of this condition that is typically progressive and unresponsive to usual medical treatment. Here, we describe a 34-year-old patient presenting with incessant ventricular arrhythmias with hemodyn...
The role of device diagnostic algorithms in the assessment and management of patients with systolic heart failure: a review [0.03%]
设备诊断算法在舒张性心力衰竭患者评估和管理中的作用：综述
Andrew C T Ha,Richard A Leather,Paul G Novak et al.
Andrew C T Ha et al.
Hospitalization due to heart failure (HF) exacerbation represents a major burden in health care and portends a poor long-term prognosis for patients. As a result, there is considerable interest to develop novel tools and strategies to bette...
Aneesh Pakala,Raghav Gupta,Ralph Lazzara
Aneesh Pakala
There are very few cases of primary pericardial sarcomas reported in the English literature. Pericardial tumors, like other cardiac tumors, are most likely to be metastatic in nature and are an extension of primary tumors from the surroundi...
Postmyocardial infarct remodeling and heart failure: potential contributions from pro- and antiaging factors [0.03%]
促衰老和抗衰老因素对心梗重塑和心力衰竭的潜在影响
Halliday A Idikio
Halliday A Idikio
Myocardial infarction and adverse postinfarct remodeling in older persons lead to poor outcome and need greater understanding of the contributions of age-related factors on abnormal cardiac function and management. In this perspective, how ...
Endoscopic vein harvesting for coronary bypass grafting: a blessing or a trojan horse? [0.03%]
冠脉旁路移植术内镜下隐静脉获取：福星还是特洛伊木马？
Ryan Accord,Jos Maessen
Ryan Accord
Conventional open harvest of the great saphenous vein (GSV) during CABG results in approximately 7% donor-site complications. Using endoscopic vein harvesting (EVH) the full GSV length can be harvested through a 3 cm incision. This nonsyste...
Left Atrial Appendage Closure in Atrial Fibrillation: A World without Anticoagulation? [0.03%]
房颤左心耳封堵：一个不用抗凝的世界？
Tahmeed Contractor,Atul Khasnis
Tahmeed Contractor
Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is a common arrhythmia with an incidence that is as high as 10% in the elderly population. Given the large proportion of strokes caused by AF as well as the associated morbidity and mortality, reducing stroke burden...
Elena Sandoval,Manuel Castella,Jose-Luis Pomar
Elena Sandoval
Surgery of atrial fibrillation (AF) was first described in 1991 by James Cox in what was named the Cox-Maze procedure, and over the years it has been considered the gold-standard treatment, with best results in maintaining sinus rhythm in t...
Recurrent syncope in a cancer patient: a case report and review of the literature [0.03%]
恶性肿瘤患者反复晕厥一例及相关文献复习
Jyoti Sharma,Anne H Dougherty
Jyoti Sharma
A 59-year-old male with invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the left preauricular region, treated with several chemotherapy regimens and radiation therapy, was admitted for recurrent syncopal episodes. He was found to be suffering from neur...
Endovascular treatment for pseudoaneurysms after surgical correction of aortic coarctation [0.03%]
手术治疗主动脉缩窄后的假性动脉瘤的血管内治疗方法
M Rabellino,T Zander,G González et al.
M Rabellino et al.
Late complications after surgical repair of aortic coarctation are not uncommon. Among these complications pseudoaneurysms are the most frequent complications, occurring between 3 and 38%. Reoperation in these patients is associated with hi...