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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This study analyzed publicly available autopsy reports of male bodybuilders under the age of 50 who reportedly died from cardiovascular-related events. A general Google search with the terms “dead bodybuilders” was performed on 10 February 2022.
Guillermo Escalante+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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Tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy in a teenage boy
Tachycardiomyopathy or tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy (TIC) is a relatively rare but completely or partially treatable condition, where there is an impairment of left ventricular (LV) function secondary to chronic, continuous, or intermittent ...
Rajesh Krishnachandra Shah
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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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Cardiomegaly Detection on Chest Radiographs: Segmentation Versus Classification
In this study, we investigate the detection of cardiomegaly on frontal chest radiographs through two alternative deep-learning approaches - via anatomical segmentation and via image-level classification.
Ecem Sogancioglu+5 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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Generalized Lymphangiomatosis Presenting as Cardiomegaly
Lymphangioma refers to the local proliferation of well-differentiated lymphatic tissue. Generalized lymphangiomatosis is rare. We report a previously healthy 8-month-old infant who suffered from tachypnea with mild fever for 2 weeks.
Yi-Ling Chen+4 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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Wall-to-wall heart – The largest left atrium ever reported
A 59-year-old male patient presented with a history of dyspnea on exertion for the past 10 years, which was gradually progressive in nature. The patient had orthopnea and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea for the past few months.
Saikat Bhattacharjee+4 more
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