Hybrid Thoracoscopic‐Endocardial Versus Endocardial Catheter Ablation for Persistent Atrial Fibrillation: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis [PDF]
Journal of ArrhythmiaBackground Hybrid ablation (HA) addresses the limitations of endocardial catheter ablation (CA) in patients with persistent, long‐standing atrial fibrillation (AF).
Annelyse Vitória Barbosa +5 more
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Predictors and Outcomes of Pharmacological and Electrical Cardioversion for Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter in an Indian Emergency Department: A Retrospective Study [PDF]
Journal of ArrhythmiaBackground Cardioversion is widely used to restore sinus rhythm in atrial fibrillation (AF) and atrial flutter (AFL), yet real‐world outcomes and predictors of success remain underexplored in populations with high rheumatic disease burden. The aim was to
Abid M. Sadiq +3 more
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Electrical injury - induced atrial fibrillation [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2022 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]
Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, 2022 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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Renal Replacement Therapy, 2022 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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Malignant arrhythmia in apical ballooning syndrome: risk factors and outcomes. [PDF]
, 2008 Objectives: We sought to determine the frequency and outcomes with symptomatic arrhythmia in patients with apical ballooning syndrome (ABS). Methods: A retrospective review of the Mayo Clinic Angiography database was conducted to identify patients who
Prasad, A +6 more
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Acute poisoning by cardiovascular agents [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2003 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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Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2022 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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Tetramisole is a new IK1 channel agonist and exerts IK1‐dependent cardioprotective effects in rats
Pharmacology Research & Perspectives, 2022 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]
Journal of Tehran University Heart Center, 2010 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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