Population prevalence, incidence, and predictors of atrial fibrillation in the Renfrew/Paisley study [PDF]
<b>OBJECTIVES</b> Though atrial fibrillation (AF) is an important cause of cardiovascular morbidity, there are few large epidemiological studies of its prevalence, incidence, and risk factors.
Hart, C.L.+3 more
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Cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure: from the case to review of literature [PDF]
In response to an increased workload due to physiological or pathological stimuli, the heart may undergo a process of growth with increased muscle mass called cardiac hypertrophy. It is a particular mechanism of long term compensation used by the heart
Massoni, Francesco+4 more
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Incidental chest radiographic findings in adult patients with acute cough [PDF]
PURPOSE Imaging may produce unexpected or incidental findings with consequences for patients and ordering of future investigations. Chest radiography in patients with acute cough is among the most common reasons for imaging in primary care, but data on ...
Almirall, Jordi+23 more
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Management of incidentally detected heart murmurs in dogs and cats [PDF]
A dog or a cat has an incidentally detected heart murmur if the murmur is an unexpected discovery during a veterinary consultation that was not initially focused on the cardiovascular system.
Abbott, J A+7 more
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Longitudinal Analysis of Quality of Life, Clinical, Radiographic, Echocardiographic, and Laboratory Variables in Dogs with Preclinical Myxomatous Mitral Valve Disease Receiving Pimobendan or Placebo: The EPIC Study [PDF]
Background: Changes in clinical variables associated with the administration of pimobendan to dogs with preclinical myxomatous mitral valve disease (MMVD) and cardiomegaly have not been described. Objectives: To investigate the effect of pimobendan on
Abbott, J A+38 more
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CheXpert: A Large Chest Radiograph Dataset with Uncertainty Labels and Expert Comparison
Large, labeled datasets have driven deep learning methods to achieve expert-level performance on a variety of medical imaging tasks. We present CheXpert, a large dataset that contains 224,316 chest radiographs of 65,240 patients.
Ball, Robyn+19 more
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Thoracic Disease Identification and Localization with Limited Supervision
Accurate identification and localization of abnormalities from radiology images play an integral part in clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Building a highly accurate prediction model for these tasks usually requires a large number of images ...
Fei-Fei, Li+6 more
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Plasmatic Biochemical Variables Associated with Polymorphisms in the Endothelin-1 and Endothelin-1 Receptor a Genes in Hypertensive Patients: Pilot Study [PDF]
Endothelin-1 (ET-1) is a potent vasoconstrictive peptide, and its activity is mediated by thetype A receptor (EDNRA). This action may play a significant role in the etiology of hypertension.There are different works that shows an association between ...
Bertolotto, Patricia Isolina+7 more
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The chest X-ray is one of the most commonly accessible radiological examinations for screening and diagnosis of many lung diseases. A tremendous number of X-ray imaging studies accompanied by radiological reports are accumulated and stored in many modern
Bagheri, Mohammadhadi+5 more
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PadChest: A large chest x-ray image dataset with multi-label annotated reports [PDF]
We present a labeled large-scale, high resolution chest x-ray dataset for the automated exploration of medical images along with their associated reports.
Bustos, Aurelia+3 more
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