Significance of myocardial tenascin-C expression in left ventricular remodelling and long-term outcome in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy [PDF]
Aim Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) has a variety of causes, and no useful approach to predict left ventricular (LV) remodelling and long-term outcome has yet been established.
Anzai, T+12 more
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Cardiac transplantation with cyclosporin A and prednisone [PDF]
Influenced by continuing improvement in results from Stanford, cardiac transplantation was resumed at the University Health Center of Pittsburgh in June 1980. Cyclosporin A (CyA) became available to the authors early in 1981.
Bahnson, HT+4 more
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Endomyocardial Fibrosis: Diagnosis and Management
and the duration of illness from the time of presentation to death was less than one year in 43.5% of patients, three years in 39.1% of patients, and three to twelve years in 17.4% of patients.
S. Khalil
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The XIIIth Banff Conference on Allograft Pathology: The Banff 2015 Heart Meeting Report: Improving Antibody-Mediated Rejection Diagnostics: Strengths, Unmet Needs, and Future Directions. [PDF]
The 13th Banff Conference on Allograft Pathology was held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from October 5 to 10, 2015. The cardiac session was devoted to current diagnostic issues in heart transplantation with a focus on antibody-mediated rejection
Angelini, A+18 more
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Biventricular endomyocardial fibrosis with severe aortic stenosis: A rare combination
Endomyocardial fibrosis is the most common form of restrictive cardiomyopathy worldwide. Primarily it is a disease of the young with apical fibrosis, endocardial thickening with involvement of the papillary muscles and atrio-ventriclar valves.
Suman Omana Soman+4 more
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Indirect pathological indicators for cardiac sarcoidosis on endomyocardial biopsy [PDF]
Background The definitive pathologic diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis requires observation of a granuloma in the myocardial tissue. It is common, however, to receive a “negative” report for a clinically probable case. We would like to advise pathologists
Myung-Jin Cha+6 more
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A novel closed-chest porcine model of chronic ischemic heart failure suitable for experimental research in cardiovascular disease [PDF]
Cardiac pathologies are among the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in industrialized countries, with myocardial infarction (MI) representing one of the major conditions leading to heart failure (HF).
Antonio Amodeo+15 more
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Collagen content and distribution in the normal and transplanted human heart: A postmortem quantitative light microscopic analysis [PDF]
Endomyocardial biopsies in heart transplant patients offer the opportunity to study the myocardial interstitium in the context of myocardial function.
Balk, A.H.M.M. (Aggie)+6 more
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Tissue eosinophilia and eosinophil degranulation in Riedel's invasive fibrous thyroiditis. [PDF]
The etiology of Riedel's invasive fibrous thyroiditis (IFT) has remained obscure. This rare disorder has been confused in the past with the more common fibrous variant of Hashimoto's disease.
Bahn, R. S.+4 more
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A endomiocardiofibrose é uma doença comum em países tropicais, particularmente Uganda e Nigéria, e pode acometer tanto o ventrículo esquerdo como direito, gerando uma insuficiência cardíaca restritiva que, além dos sintomas clássicos, manifesta-se por ...
Humberto F.G. de Freitas+3 more
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