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The interpretation of brain natriuretic peptide in critical care patients; will it ever be useful? [PDF]
The measurement of B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) is recommended for the diagnosis of decompensated heart failure, the prognosis of chronic heart failure is worse if BNP is increased and studies suggest that BNP is useful to guide therapy.
Dixon, J, Philips, B
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Diuretic resistance implies a failure to increase fluid and sodium (Na+) output sufficiently to relieve volume overload, edema, or congestion, despite escalating doses of a loop diuretic to a ceiling level (80 mg of furosemide once or twice daily or ...
C. Wilcox, J. Testani, B. Pitt
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Fusobacterium nucleatum (F. nucleatum) is a crucial periodontal pathogen and human gingival fibroblasts (GFs) are the first line of defense against oral pathogens.
Wenyan Kang +13 more
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As a consequence of the increasing life expectancy the number of patients suffering from chronic heart failure has been growing continuously in the past few decades, especially in the group of the old and oldest. Frailty is a clinical syndrome that geriatricians attach great importance to.
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Ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM) and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), with distinct long-term prognosis and responses to treatment, are two major problems that lead to heart failure (HF) ultimately. In this study, we investigated the long noncoding RNA (lncRNA)
Fang Lin +36 more
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To provide reliable survival estimates for people with chronic heart failure and explain variation in survival by key factors including age at diagnosis, left ventricular ejection fraction, decade of diagnosis, and study setting.
N. Jones +4 more
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CDR132L improves systolic and diastolic function in a large animal model of chronic heart failure
Aims Cardiac miR-132 activation leads to adverse remodelling and pathological hypertrophy. CDR132L is a synthetic lead-optimized oligonucleotide inhibitor with proven preclinical efficacy and safety in heart failure (HF) early after myocardial infarction
S. Batkai +16 more
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J-STAGE Advance Publication released online September 10, 2019 Mailing address: Scientific Committee of the Japanese Circulation Society, 18F Imperial Hotel Tower, 1-1-1 Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0011, Japan. E-mail: meeting@j-circ.or.jp This
H. Tsutsui +62 more
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Dapagliflozin in Heart Failure with Mildly Reduced or Preserved Ejection Fraction.
BACKGROUND Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors reduce the risk of hospitalization for heart failure and cardiovascular death among patients with chronic heart failure and a left ventricular ejection fraction of 40% or less.
S. Solomon +41 more
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Mechanism of tonifying-kidney Chinese herbal medicine in the treatment of chronic heart failure
According to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), chronic heart failure has the basic pathological characteristics of “heart-kidney yang deficiency.” Chronic heart failure with heart- and kidney-Yang deficiency has good overlap with New York Heart ...
Lizhen Chen +3 more
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