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Getting to the Heart of the Matter Evaluation Report: Post-Acute Cardiac Rehabilitation Program to Reduce Hospital Readmissions [PDF]

, 2015
Launched in 2013, this innovative program was designed to help cardiac patients achieve success with their post-acute treatment regime, something that is especially important for older cardiac patients who are at an increased risk for complications.
Denise D. Quigley, Thomas F. Syltebo
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Heart ventricular histology and microvasculature together with aortic histology and elastic lamellar structure: A comparison of a novel dual-purpose to a broiler chicken line [PDF]

, 2019
The use of dual-purpose chickens is a strategy to avoid killing one-day-old male chicks of egg laying lines. Lohmann Dual (LD) is a novel dual-purpose chicken line created by the crossbreeding of layer and broiler lines.
Al Masri, S., Alshamy, Z., Hafez, H.M., Harash, G., Hünigen, H., Plendl, J., Richardson, K.C., Yildirim, A.   +7 more
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The Long Term Effects of a 12‐Session Community Exercise Program on Health Measures in Cancer Patients

Aging and Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose To assess the long‐term effects of a community cancer exercise program on quality of life, fatigue, weight, waist circumference, physical activity levels, lower extremity strength, body mass index (BMI), heart rate, and blood pressure, across non‐metastatic and metastatic patients.
Isaac Oppong, Roozbeh Naemi
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Carcinoid heart disease

Autopsy and Case Reports, 2013
The images are of the tricuspid valve and the pulmonic valve from the autopsy of a patient with mid-gut neuroendocrine carcinoma, carcinoid pattern, extensively metastatic to the liver. The patient had typical “carcinoid syndrome,” including clinical evidence of tricuspid and pulmonic stenosis and insufficiency.
Fernando Peixoto Ferraz de Campos, Stephen A. Geller   +1 more
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Natriuretic peptides and integrated risk assessment for cardiovascular disease. an individual-participant-data meta-analysis [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND: Guidelines for primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases focus on prediction of coronary heart disease and stroke. We assessed whether or not measurement of N-terminal-pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) concentration could enable ...
Adam S, Butterworth, Andreas, Luchner, Angela M, Wood, Brendan, M. Everett, Børge G, Nordestgaard, Caroline, N. Kistorp, Christie M, Ballantyne, Christopher, Defilippi, Daniel F, Freitag, Daniel, Levy, Demosthenes, B. Panagiotakos, DI ANGELANTONIO, EMANUELE, Frank, Kee, Goya Wannamethee, S, James A, de Lemos, Jari A. Laukkanen, Maryam Kavousi, Jens, Rosenberg, Johan, Ärnlöv, John, Danesh, Jonas, Andersson, Jorge R, Kizer, Juan Pablo, Casas, Jukka, T. Salonen, Jussi, Kauhanen, Lars, Lind, Lisa, Pennells, Lori B, Daniels, Mary, Cushman, Michael, Hecht Olsen, Michael, Sweeting, Nancy, R. Cook, Naveed, Sattar, Olle, Melander, Oscar, H. Franco, Paul M, Ridker, Pei, Gao, Peter, Willeit, Rajiv, Chowdhury, RUBATTU, Speranza Donatella, Rudolf, A. de Boer, Sarah, A. Spackman, Simon G, Thompson, Stefan, Kiechl, Stella, Trompet, Stephen Kaptoge, Paul Welsh, Stephen, Burgess, Suzanne, Judd, Thomas, Mueller, Torben, Jørgensen, Toshiharu, Ninomiya, Veikko, Salomaa, Vijay, Nambi, Vilmundur, Gudnason, Wayne, D. Rosamond   +53 more
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Surface dose analysis and dosimetric comparison of Halcyon versus Truebeam in breast cancer radiotherapy: An OSL dosimetry study

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose Breast cancer is a neoplastic disease with high prevalence among women. Radiotherapy is one of the principal treatment modalities for this disease, but it poses significant challenges. This study aimed to compare and evaluate the technical and dosimetric performance of conventional C‐arm linac systems and a new design, Halcyon, in the ...
Mustafa Çağlar, Kudret Akçay, Esra Serin, Dursun Eşitmez, Mehmet Sıddık Cebe, Navid Kheradmand, Ömer Yazıcı, Dilek Ünal, Evrim Metcalfe   +8 more
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Fabry disease and the heart

Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2015
Fabry disease is induced by a mutation in the alpha-galactosidase A gene, causing a deficiency of the enzyme alpha-galactosidase A. (1) The enzyme defect leads to progressive intracellular accumulation of globotriaosylceramide in lysosomes of various tissues and organs, including heart, kidney and nerve system.
Frank Weidemann, Christoph Wanner, Nora Seydelmann, Stefan Störk, Georg Ertl   +4 more
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Biomedical Research, A Tool to Address the Health Issues that Affect African Populations. [PDF]

, 2013
Traditionally, biomedical research endeavors in low to middle resources countries have focused on communicable diseases. However, data collected over the past 20 years by the World Health Organization (WHO) show a significant increase in the number of ...
Peprah, Emmanuel, Wonkam, Ambroise
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Implementation of needle‐tracking technology for real‐time transrectal ultrasound‐guided interstitial gynecological HDR brachytherapy: A feasibility study

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose To investigate the feasibility of adapting a commercial prostate biopsy system for transrectal ultrasound (TRUS)‐guided hybrid gynecological (GYN) high‐dose‐rate (HDR) brachytherapy (BT). Leveraging 3D‐TRUS and MR image fusion, the prototype system aims to improve real‐time needle placement accuracy.
Lindsey H. Bloom, Diandra Ayala‐Peacock, Rajesh Venkataraman, Brett Eckroate, Ryan Sanford, Junzo Chino, Yongbok Kim, Julie Raffi, Oana Craciunescu   +8 more
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The burden of intracranial atherosclerosis on cerebral small vessel disease: A community cohort study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Exploring the prevalence and association between intracranial atherosclerosis (ICAS) and cerebral small vessel diseases (CSVD), this study delved beyond the current scope, utilising high‐resolution vessel wall MRI (HRVW‐MRI) to investigate how subtle changes in intracranial atherosclerotic features influence the various burdens of ...
Joseph Amihere Ackah, Heng Du, Wenjie Yang, Huixing Zeng, Jason Tsz Lok Chan, Michael Lung Cheung Lo, Xiangyan Chen   +6 more
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