European Journal of Heart Failure, EarlyView.The patient with SMR: From diagnostic assessment to treatment. Secondary mitral regurgitation (SMR) is highly prevalent in patients with heart failure (HF), associated with poor prognosis, and its treatment is typically preceded by implementing pharmacotherapy for HF as well as cardiac resynchronization therapy.
Christos Iliadis +11 more
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European Journal of Heart Failure, EarlyView.A U‐shaped relationship between left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and clinical outcomes. A U‐shaped relationship can be observed between LVEF, the primary outcome, and the cardiovascular‐related outcomes, including cardiovascular death and the risk of worsening heart failure (HF).
Hao‐Chih Chang +9 more
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Angiotensin II blockade and aortic-root dilation in Marfan's syndrome [PDF]
, 2008 Background: Progressive enlargement of the aortic root, leading to dissection, is the main cause of premature death in patients with Marfan's syndrome. Recent data from mouse models of Marfan's syndrome suggest that aortic-root enlargement is caused by ...
Brooke, Benjamin S. +5 more
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Chronic Otitis Media Resulting in Aortic Valve Replacement: A Case Report
Journal of Tehran University Heart Center, 2015 The bicuspid aortic valve is known to be the most common congenital cardiac malformation, with an approximate incidence rate of 1-2% in the general population. Most patients are unaware of the disease until the onset of infective endocarditis, which is a
Adem Guler +5 more
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Ankylosing Spondyloarthritis Resulting Severe Aortic Insufficiency and Aortitis: Exacerbation of Ankylosing Spondyloarthritis and Stenosis of the Main Left Coronary Artery after Mechanical Aortic Valve Implantation with Cardiopulmonary Bypass [PDF]
, 2020 Agnė Balčiūnaitė +5 more
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Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purpose To demonstrate the feasibility of a novel dual‐phase self‐navigated, free‐breathing balanced steady‐state free‐precession whole‐heart MRA acquisition for aortic annulus size measurement using a Cartesian trajectory that mitigates eddy‐current artifacts by minimizing k‐space jumps between consecutive readouts with predictable scan times.
Tassia Ribeiro Salles Moura +11 more
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Nutrition in Clinical Practice, EarlyView.Abstract Background Nutrition status evaluation is essential for patients undergoing cardiac surgery. The Nutrition Risk in the Critically Ill (NUTRIC) and modified NUTRIC (mNUTRIC) scores are nutrition risk assessment tools specifically for patients in the intensive care unit (ICU).
Jing Xu +8 more
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Aortic valve injury following blunt chest trauma
Research in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2014 Introduction: Heart valve injury following blunt chest trauma of car accidents is increasing. Although aortic valve involvement is rare, however, in survivors of blunt cardiac trauma it is the most commonly involved valve and the most frequent valve ...
Maryam Esmaeilzadeh +3 more
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Incidence and risk factors for pacemaker implantation following aortic valve replacement [PDF]
, 2010 Our aim was to identify the predictive factors for permanent pacemaker (PM) implantation in patients undergoing isolated aortic valve replacement (AVR).
Achim Häusler +22 more
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Balloon Expandable Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation in Failing Self-Expandable Transcatheter Valve in Degenerated Surgical Bioprosthesis: Valve-in-Valve-in-Valve Implantation for the Treatment of Early Degenerative Prosthetic Insufficiency [PDF]
, 2021 Ahmed Subahi +4 more
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