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Lethal ventricular arrhythmia can be prevented by adjusting the dialysate potassium concentration and the use of anti-arrhythmic agents: a case report and literature review [PDF]
Background Hypokalemia is common in patients with malnutrition undergoing hemodialysis and is often involved in the development of lethal arrhythmia. Moreover, hemodialysis therapy decreases the serum potassium concentration due to potassium removal to ...
Takayuki Uchida+10 more
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Electrical injury - induced atrial fibrillation [PDF]
Introduction. An electrical injury can cause various cardiac arrhythmias, such as asystole, ventricular fibrillation, sinus tachycardia, and heart blocks. However, it rarely causes atrial fibrillation (AF). Case report.
Stojanović Milovan+3 more
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Severe psoriatic arthritis in an HIV/AIDS patient treated with several TNF blockers switching: a case-based review [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: This case-based review aims to describe the clinical findings, treatment, and outcome of an HIV/AIDS patient with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) who received four anti-TNF agents and review case reports concerning this rare clinical association ...
J. Carvalho, C. Rodrigues
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Acute poisoning by cardiovascular agents [PDF]
In order to determine the frequency, severity of poisoning, and the efficacy of the applied therapeutic measures, retrospective study of 391 patients treated for acute drug poisoning was performed during one-year period at the Clinic for Emergency and ...
Vučinić Slavica+5 more
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Introduction: It is still unclear that which anti-arrhythmics are adequate for treating refractory dysrhythmia. This study aimed to compare amiodarone and nifekalant in management of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest cases with refractory shockable rhythm.
Hiraku Funakoshi+4 more
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Socially interactive agents (SIAs) are no longer mere visions for future user interfaces, as 20 years of research and technology development has enabled the use of virtual and physical agents in day-to-day interfaces and environments. This chapter of the ACM "The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents" reviews research on and technologies involving ...
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Factors affecting the changes in antihypertensive medications in patients with hypertension
As frequent changes in anti-hypertensive (HTN) medications may reduce adherence to the treatments, identifying modifiable factors leading to changes in anti-HTN medications can help clinicians optimize treatment strategies for individual patients.
Tae Kyu Chung+14 more
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Tetramisole is a new IK1 channel agonist and exerts IK1‐dependent cardioprotective effects in rats
Cardiac ischemia, hypoxia, arrhythmias, and heart failure share the common electrophysiological changes featured by the elevation of intracellular Ca2+ (Ca2+ overload) and inhibition of the inward rectifier potassium (IK1) channel.
Qinghua Liu+12 more
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Drug Therapy in Atrial Fibrillation Management: Where Do We Stand in 2010? [PDF]
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a commonly encountered arrhythmia in our daily practice. Every year a huge bulk of data is published about different management strategies, new antiarrhythmic drugs, anticoagulation protocols and ablation procedures in these ...
Mehdi Montazeri, Gholamreza Davoodi
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