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Coagulation factor XIII activity predicts left ventricular remodelling after acute myocardial infarction

open access: yesESC Heart Failure, 2020
Aims Acute myocardial infarction (MI) is the major cause of chronic heart failure. The activity of blood coagulation factor XIII (FXIIIa) plays an important role in rodents as a healing factor after MI, whereas its role in healing and remodelling ...
Anna Frey   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

What's behind your eosinophilic myocarditis? A case of Churg–Strauss syndrome diagnosed during acute heart failure

open access: yesESC Heart Failure, 2023
Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) is a rare multisystem disorder; cardiac involvement may include eosinophilic myocarditis. A 67‐year‐old woman presented with 1‐week history of dyspnoea and orthopnoea.
Nicola Amelotti   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mihai Gheorghiade, MD-Life and Concepts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
How do you capture an idea, shape it, and then bring it into the world? Of his many talents, this ability was a fundamental characteristic of Mihai Gheorghiade.
Butler, Javed   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Exercise intolerance and fatigue in chronic heart failure: is there a role for group III/IV afferent feedback? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Exercise intolerance and early fatiguability are hallmark symptoms of chronic heart failure. While the malfunction of the heart is certainly the leading cause of chronic heart failure, the patho-physiological mechanisms of exercise intolerance in these ...
Angius, Luca, Crisafulli, Antonio
core   +2 more sources

Temporal trends and patterns in heart failure incidence: a population-based study of 4 million individuals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Background: Large-scale and contemporary population-based studies of heart failure incidence are needed to inform resource planning and research prioritisation but current evidence is scarce.
Allison, Moira   +10 more
core   +5 more sources

The role of the gut microbiome in sex differences in arterial pressure

open access: yesBiology of Sex Differences, 2019
There has been intense interest in the role of the gut microbiome in human health and a broad range of diseases in recent years. In the context of cardiovascular disease, gut dysbiosis (defined as a change in the gut microbiome and the gut-epithelial ...
Anna L. Beale   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of Psychological Distress, Self-Care, and Medication Adherence in Association with Hypertension Control

open access: yesInternational Journal of Hypertension, 2022
Background. Most of the patients with hypertension (HTN) who undergo medical therapy unaccompanied by psychological and behavioral interventions may not achieve their goal in HTN treatment. Self-care is a key factor in controlling HTN.
Maryam Eghbali   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Natriuretic peptides and integrated risk assessment for cardiovascular disease. an individual-participant-data meta-analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 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   +53 more
core   +1 more source

What can we learn from SOCRATES: more questions than answers? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This editorial refers to ‘Vericiguat in patients with worsening chronic heart failure and preserved ejection fraction: results of the SOluble guanylate Cyclase stimulatoR in heArT failurE patientS with PRESERVED EF (SOCRATES-PRESERVED) Study’, by B ...
Cleland, John G.F., Mueller, Christian
core   +1 more source

Acute heart failure [PDF]

open access: yesNature Reviews Disease Primers, 2020
Acute heart failure (AHF) is a syndrome defined as the new onset (de novo heart failure (HF)) or worsening (acutely decompensated heart failure (ADHF)) of symptoms and signs of HF, mostly related to systemic congestion. In the presence of an underlying structural or functional cardiac dysfunction (whether chronic in ADHF or undiagnosed in de novo HF ...
Arrigo, Mattia   +6 more
openaire   +5 more sources

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