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Influence of diabetes on cardiac resynchronization therapy in heart failure patients: a meta-analysis [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: Diabetes mellitus is an independent risk factor of increased morbidity and mortality in patients with heart failure. Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), a pacemaker-based therapy for dyssynchronous heart failure, improves cardiac ...
Guohai Su +11 more
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Improved cardiac and venous pressures during hospital stay in patients with acute heart failure: an echocardiography and biomarkers study [PDF]
, 2020 Eiichi Akiyama +19 more
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Advanced Biology, EarlyView.This study introduces and investigates different‐sex gonad transplants in a mouse model of gender‐affirming hormone therapy. Ovaries and testes implanted into gonadectomized adults exhibit gametogenesis and steroidogenesis independent of the sex of the host.
Daniel R. Pfau +8 more
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Epigenetic Biomarkers in Cardiovascular Diseases
Frontiers in Genetics, 2019 Cardiovascular diseases are the number one cause of death worldwide and greatly impact quality of life and medical costs. Enormous effort has been made in research to obtain new tools for efficient and quick diagnosis and predicting the prognosis of ...
Carolina Soler-Botija +7 more
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Liquid Crystal Elastomers Under Confinement: A Review of Template‐Based Fabrication and Applications
Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Template‐assisted confinement offers powerful ways to control the alignment, structure, and function of liquid crystal elastomers. This review highlights several templating strategies and details how geometry and interfaces shape material responses.
Meng Zhang +7 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Biofabrication aims at providing innovative technologies and tools for the fabrication of tissue‐like constructs for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications. By integrating multiple biofabrication technologies, such as 3D (bio) printing with fiber fabrication methods, it would be more realistic to reconstruct native tissue's ...
Waseem Kitana +2 more
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Cardiac Depression Scale: Mokken scaling in heart failure patients [PDF]
, 2012 Background: There is a high prevalence of depression in patients with heart failure (HF) that is associated with worsening prognosis. The value of using a reliable and valid instrument to measure depression in this population is therefore essential.
Hare, David L. +4 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.The addition of calcium ions to silk fibroin enhances the hydrogel properties and, when combined with visible light crosslinking, enables compatibility with advanced light‐based fabrication techniques. Calcium ions extend the shelf‐life of silk and facilitate the fabrication of multizonal, multilayered constructs for advanced stimuli‐responsive ...
Hien A. Tran +11 more
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Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2016 Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is a non-invasive tool that provides the physician with relevant information to assess the integrated response to exercise involving pulmonary, cardiovascular, haematopoietic, neuro-psychological, and skeletal ...
Ugo Corrà, Massimo F. Piepoli
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Left ventricular clefts - incidental finding or pathologic sign of Wilson's disease? [PDF]
, 2019 Background: Wilson’s disease is an inherited autosomal recessive multi-systemic disorder characterized by reduced excretion and consequently excessive accumulation of copper in different organs, such as the heart. Results: In a prospective controlled
Christoph, Marian +9 more
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