Clinical and epidemiological profile of patients infected by COVID-19 at a tertiary care centre in North India [0.03%]
北印度三级医疗中心COVID-19感染患者的临床和流行病学特征
Sadanand Prakash,Manas Mani Agrawal,Rajendra Kumar et al.
Sadanand Prakash et al.
A worldwide outbreak of a respiratory illness, first detected in December 2019 in Wuhan city, Hubei province, China is ongoing. The disease is caused by a novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 and on February 11, 2020, was officially named Coronavi...
Enrico Mossello
Enrico Mossello
High blood pressure at midlife has been consistently identified as a risk factor for dementia in late life, while dementia onset is typically associated with a subsequent decline of blood pressure values. A previous meta-analysis of randomi...
Angelo Di Vincenzo,Roberto Vettor,Marco Rossato
Angelo Di Vincenzo
Dear Editor, the issues recently raised by Carratù et al. on the role of smoking/former smoking in patients hospitalized for COVID-19 all around the world as widely reported in many different published papers, are important for different r...
Filippo M Sarullo,Giuseppe Schembri,Cinzia Nugara et al.
Filippo M Sarullo et al.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart failure (HF) are evolving epidemies, together responsible for substantial human suffering and health-care expenditure. The simultaneous co-hexistence of the two conditions is associated with mortality rate...
Antithrombotic therapy in acute coronary syndrome: undertreatment of elderly? [0.03%]
急性冠脉综合征的抗栓治疗：老年患者使用不足？
Iacopo Muraca,Francesca Ciatti,Angela Migliorini et al.
Iacopo Muraca et al.
The appropriate use of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) in elderly patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is largely debated. Due to the "demographic transition" in western countries, the elderly represent a growing percentage of patie...
Valentina Barletta,Giulio Zucchelli,Matteo Parollo et al.
Valentina Barletta et al.
Rates of cardiac pacemaker implantation rise with age, and, meanwhile, elderly patient may be at great risk of complications, as pneumothorax, lead perforation, or pocket dehiscence. The use of leadless pacemaker could overcome peri- and po...
Giulia Rivasi,Andrea Ungar
Giulia Rivasi
Orthostatic hypotension (OH) is defined as an abnormal blood pressure reduction when standing and is frequently diagnosed in older adults. Pharmacological therapy is one of the main causes of orthostatic blood pressure impairment, leading t...
Maria Vittoria Silverii,Alessandra Pratesi,Giulia Lucarelli et al.
Maria Vittoria Silverii et al.
Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is a comprehensive multidisciplinary program individually tailored to the needs of patients with cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease is prevalent in older adults and is the leading cause of death and m...
Gram-negative infective endocarditis: a retrospective analysis of 10 years data on clinical spectrum, risk factor and outcome [0.03%]
回顾性分析10年革兰氏阴性感染性心内膜炎的临床特点、危险因素及预后
Vineeth Varghese Thomas,Ajay Kumar Mishra,Sudha Jasmine et al.
Vineeth Varghese Thomas et al.
Infective endocarditis (IE) is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. Underlying congenital heart disease and acquired valvular disease significantly increases the IE risk, which is still prevalent in developing countries. Gram-neg...
Characteristics of COVID-19 at a non-COVID tertiary pulmonary care centre in Delhi, India [0.03%]
印度德里一家非新冠三级肺病治疗中心的新冠肺炎病例特征
Nitin Goel,Sonam Spalgais,Parul Mrigpuri et al.
Nitin Goel et al.
The pandemic of COVID-19 has emerged as a serious health crisis globally and India too has been extensively affected with 604,641 active cases reported, till date. The present study focuses on the demographic, clinical and laboratory profil...